[Icecast] Sporadic Issues

[Judd, Taylor Allen]

Hi Michel,

The upgrade was for the whole site including media element player. Icecast was left in place though we started using it as our primary server whereas some users would get an MMS stream for windows media server previously.

I was reaching out to the icecast community because as Linux and server people, I find the best answers with these types of groups. Sorry for not being clear about this in the initial posting.

Taylor

From: michel memeteau [mailto:michel.memeteau at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:05 AM
To: Judd, Taylor Allen
Cc: icecast at xiph.org
Subject: Re: [Icecast] Sporadic Issues

Hi I think a part of your story was not clear :

- You talk about an "upgrade" , it's an upgrade of icecast ? the OS icecast is running on ? Your HTML5 web player ?


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2013/2/26 Judd, Taylor Allen <tjudd at illinois.edu<mailto:tjudd at illinois.edu>>
Thanks for all the feedback. We haven't found any specific reason for the reported issue, but since our site redesign our listenership has gone up significantly so we're going to stick with it until we can find a specific issue with icecast, media element, or some other component.

Taylor

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From: David Saunders [mailto:abitar.com at gmail.com<mailto:abitar.com at gmail.com>]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:49 AM
To: José Luis Artuch
Cc: Judd, Taylor Allen; icecast at xiph.org<mailto:icecast at xiph.org>
Subject: Re: [Icecast] Sporadic Issues

The problem is not icecast streaming, its trying to stream through a browser. It is very complicated to do. Each browser has it quirks depending on OS, version and what other audio programs that are
installed.   Having the external player link should resolve the
issues. We gotten from using a browser player to letting the customer choose there fave audio player to use :)  Even this has cause issues with some browser configurations.  Life would been allot easyer if everyone choose he same formats but how do we find out which is best
:)

 My suggestion for people using safari on windows is to install Quicktime if not installed, that most of the time fixes that issue.
Or have them change to another browser.

  But still programs like Windows Media Player, WinAmp, and Quicktime work much easyer for everyone to play audio thru.

 Then now, are you thinking about mobile devices?  Luckily that little easyer to work with since there are only a few platforms to work with not the 40 or 50 for computer users.

I find Icecast is a very good server program, The only drawback I have with it there only a few source clients that can connect to it. We have had servers running for probably 5 years now, with very little down time cause by icecast issues, We have had lot more due to internet.

David
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