[Icecast] intro file error

[Jordan Erickson]

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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