[Icecast] Automatic Update of MP3 Files

[Gene Steinberg]

So far I’m getting insults and claims that I don’t know what I’m doing and my Webmaster doesn’t know what he’s doing, even though he’s worked for large bluechip companies.

Please make an effort to actually respond to what I asked, and don’t presume to tell me what I did wrong and how it’s my fault — or his fault.

I assume the distribution is the one on the Icecast site. I have a CentOS 6.5 server, using cPanel/WHM.

Stop talking down to me and give me a real step-by-step answer.

Gene Steinberg


> On Sep 26, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Thomas B. Rücker <thomas at ruecker.fi> wrote:
> 
> On 09/26/2014 07:15 PM, Gene Steinberg wrote:
>> Linked file means the original MP3 file posted on the server.
>> 
>> init script? Tell me where to find one? That’s what the Web guy evidently didn’t know, since he’s not experienced at Icecast.
> 
> If Icecast was installed from a distribution package, then there usually
> is a distribution specific way to start/stop/etc the server, in this
> case Icecast. In most cases this is an init script. Although nowadays
> systemd is becoming more popular and there it would be a service
> definition file.
> 
> Long story short:
> There should be one already. Depending on what your "web guy" did to
> Icecast and its configuration, it may or may not work though.
> 
> It sounds like what you need is a proper system administrator and not a
> "web guy".
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 
>>> On Sep 26, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Thomas B. Rücker <thomas at ruecker.fi> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 09/26/2014 01:57 PM, Gene Steinberg wrote:
>>>> Well, not quite. The radio network that carries my two radio shows does on-demand and live.
>>>> 
>>>> We just wanted an on-demand streamer for our own needs.
>>> I don't understand why you call this on demand, but then use a source
>>> client to stream it, that's not really on-demand, that's still
>>> considered streaming.
>>> 
>>> On demand is usually considered something where the content is always
>>> started from the beginning (unless client and server explicitly
>>> implement resume).
>>> 
>>>> The code from our webmaster to update after a linked file is replaced is:
>>> What is a "linked file"? What does this mean?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 1) You need to update the playlist file with the new show.
>>>> 
>>>> 	A) PARACAST FILE LIVES HERE: /usr/local/etc/paracast.m3u
>>>> 	B) TECH NIGHT OWN FILE LIVES HERE: /usr/local/etc/nightowl.m3u
>>> Given that the file names here match the file names in 3) (except the
>>> m3u/cfg file extension), I'm going to guess that those are play lists
>>> that then are being streamed.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 2) Shut down/restart icecast. (there may be ways of not having to restart the stream, but it's beyond me)
>>>> 
>>>> 	A) RUN THIS COMMAND: ps -C icecast
>>>> 	B) Get the PID # that is shown for icecast
>>>> 	C) RUN THIS COMMAND (where PID# is from above): kill PID# 
>>>> 	D) RUN THIS COMMAND: /usr/bin/icecast -c /etc/icecast.xml -b
>>>> 	E) You MIGHT have to hit CTRL-C after that last step to return to prompt.
>>> This is most certainly NOT necessary. What would make you think that you
>>> need to do this?
>>> Also why are you not using an init script?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 3) Restart icegenerator (this is what serves the mp3 files to icecast)
>>>> 
>>>> 	A) RUN THIS COMMAND: /usr/local/bin/icegenerator -f /usr/local/etc/paracast.cfg
>>>> 	B) RUN THIS COMMAND: /usr/local/bin/icegenerator -f /usr/local/etc/nightowl.cfg
>>>> 
>>>> So what am I missing? Can we make this dynamic?
>>> I'm not familiar with Icegenerator.
>>> Have you tried reading its documentation?
>>> http://www.becrux.com/index.php?page=projects&name=icegenerator
>>> 
>>> If that doesn't fit your bill you could switch to a different source
>>> client that's capable to reload its play list dynamically. That might be
>>> e.g. ez-stream, but there are many.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> Thomas
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 25, 2014, at 11:56 PM, Thomas B. Rücker <thomas at ruecker.fi> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 09/26/2014 12:39 AM, Gene Steinberg wrote:
>>>>>> So I have a new Icecast setup with two channels, each of which carries a link to MP3 files.
>>>>> Icecast is intended for live streaming, not for serving static files.
>>>>> Which of both are you doing here?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Whenever I update the .m3u file to reflect a changed link, I have to restart Icecast and the Icegenerator to make it recognize the change.
>>>>> Where do you update a m3u file? Icecast generates dynamic m3u files for
>>>>> streams, so creating your own is usually not necessary.
>>>>> Or is this something in your source client side (Icegenerator?).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thomas
>>>>> 
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