[Icecast] Question about Icecast2 when not streaming

[José Luis Artuch]

El mié, 03-06-2015 a las 14:48 +0200, Marvin Scholz escribió:
> On 3 Jun 2015, at 14:36, José Luis Artuch wrote:
> 
> > El mié, 03-06-2015 a las 14:18 +0200, Marvin Scholz escribió:
> >> On 3 Jun 2015, at 14:10, José Luis Artuch wrote:
> >>
> >>> El mar, 02-06-2015 a las 21:48 -0400, Kyle Blizzard escribió:
> >>>> Hello.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've been using Icecast for a few days now, and am really enjoying
> >>>> it. One thing I can't figure out how to do is have a specific file
> >>>> play if someone were to click on my stream url, and I wasn't 
> >>>> actively
> >>>> streaming at the time. I want it to play if I'm not streaming, but
> >>>> play the stream if I am. I'm not sure if this is possible; I've
> >>>> searched the Icecast
> >>>> site and forums and didn't see anything about it, but I've seen 
> >>>> other
> >>>> people do something similar. Is it possible to do this?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for any information you may be able to provide.
> >>> Hello Kyle,
> >>> If you want that the listener always receive audio from your *Web
> >>> site*,
> >>> whether or not your *Icecast server* is running, you can include an
> >>> onclick event on your stream url, so, if your *Icecast server* is 
> >>> not
> >>> running, a song hosted in your *Web server* will be played:
> >>> document.getElementById('idYourStreamUrlButton').onclick=function(){if(icecastIsRunning){playYourIcecast}else{playYourSong}}
> >>
> >> Thanks for the reply, but actually this solution you are advising is 
> >> not
> >> really suitable.
> >> Client side Javascript is no solution to the problem that users may 
> >> have
> >> a direct link to
> >> the stream and will not be able to listen to it, when it is not
> >> available.
> >>
> >> There is actually a much better approach which works natively in 
> >> Icecast
> >> without any need for
> >> anything else: Fallbacks
> >> You can setup a fallback for your stream, which can be either another
> >> mountpoint or a file located in
> >> your webroot. Check the Documentation [1] for more information about
> >> that.
> >> Feel free to ask again if you are experiencing any problems or need
> >> further help setting it up.
> >>
> >> [1]:
> >> http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.1/config-file.html#mountsettings
> >>
> >>> José Luis
> > Hello Marvin,
> > Thank you very much for the information, I did not know.
> > But the solution "Fallbacks" requires the Icecast server is working, 
> > is it ?. If so, what about if Icecast is not working ?.
> 
> Icecast is designed as a server software and should run all the time in 
> normal operation mode, therefore if you shut it down, you have to come 
> up with own handling for this case.
Ok Marvin,
That is our case, where the Icecast server does not have the same ISP
provider that the Web page server.
Icecast Server is always in normal operation, but not so the different
Internet connections.
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