From uktony at radiocompany.net  Sun Apr  6 14:50:31 2025
From: uktony at radiocompany.net (Tony Harding)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 22:50:31 +0800
Subject: [Icecast] intro file error
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My Icecast server is on the same machine as my automation system and so has
all the audio file locally. This includes the news files.

 

As Icecast does not do on demand playing of files I want to play the news
file as an intro to a stream that will not be public and is there just for
me to check the news anytime to hear what is going on and react if
necessary.

 

This is Windows version 2.4.4 on a VPS 

 

The file I want to play is E:\DAB1\Other\RNH\RNH-bulletins\twominnews.mp3

 

I have set up a separate mounting point /news to listen

 

 

   <mount type="normal">

        <mount-name>/news</mount-name>

        <burst-size>65536</burst-size>

        <intro>E:\DAB1\Other\RNH\RNH-bulletins\twominnews.mp3</intro>

        <public>0</public>

    </mount>

 

 

This reports

 

WARN source/source.c Cannot open intro file
"./web\E:\DAB1\Other\RNH\RNH-bulletins\twominnews.mp3": Invalid argument

 

 

How can I get around the ./web\E: error?

 

I have tried putting a shortcut in /web called twominnews.mp3 that points at
the file and using the intro tag as

 

<intro>twominnews.mp3</intro>

 

This reports 

 

WARN source/source.c Cannot open intro file "./web\twominnews.mp3": No such
file or directory

 

Any suggestions welcome

 

 

Regards

Tony

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From jordan at subj.am  Sun Apr  6 16:33:11 2025
From: jordan at subj.am (Jordan Erickson)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 09:33:11 -0700
Subject: [Icecast] intro file error
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References: <E1u1RKU-000Ek9-EG@mx1.mxfilter.net>
Message-ID: <cce315f6-d678-4ac3-bb0c-48bb447ebdff@subj.am>

Hey Tony,

Intro files need to be relative to the web/ directory.

With Windows you can create a symlink / hardlink to them (the link 
itself residing in web/ ) but a shortcut won't work.

 ? - 
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/131182-create-soft-hard-symbolic-links-windows.html


Cheers,
Jordan

P.S. Thanks Philipp for the expertise in libera.chat / #icecast ;)


On 4/6/25 07:50, Tony Harding wrote:
>
> My Icecast server is on the same machine as my automation system and 
> so has all the audio file locally. This includes the news files.
>
> As Icecast does not do on demand playing of files I want to play the 
> news file as an intro to a stream that will not be public and is there 
> just for me to check the news anytime to hear what is going on and 
> react if necessary.
>
> This is Windows version 2.4.4 on a VPS
>
> The file I want to play is E:\DAB1\Other\RNH\RNH-bulletins\twominnews.mp3
>
> I have set up a separate mounting point /news to listen
>
> ?? <mount type="normal">
>
> <mount-name>/news</mount-name>
>
> <burst-size>65536</burst-size>
>
> <intro>E:\DAB1\Other\RNH\RNH-bulletins\twominnews.mp3</intro>
>
> <public>0</public>
>
> ? ??</mount>
>
> This reports
>
> WARN source/source.c Cannot open intro file 
> "./web\E:\DAB1\Other\RNH\RNH-bulletins\twominnews.mp3": Invalid argument
>
> How can I get around the ./web\E: error?
>
> I have tried putting a shortcut in /web called twominnews.mp3that 
> points at the file and using the intro tag as
>
> <intro>twominnews.mp3</intro>
>
> This reports
>
> WARN source/source.c Cannot open intro file "./web\twominnews.mp3": No 
> such file or directory
>
> Any suggestions welcome
>
> Regards
>
> Tony
>
>
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