<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello everyone!<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've been looking into using icecast to help get some terrestrial radio stations into Internet broadcasting. One of their requirements is that they have the ability to overlay internet-only content over the regional commercials that they run during their programming - ie, during breaks between their normal programming, they don't want ads from their advertisers going out over the internet, but rather, they would prefer to substitute special content.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I could see doing this by having a fallback stream loop continuous internet only content and switching over to the stream during commercial breaks by terminating the main stream but that would seem not to be the optimal solution due to a clash with how I planned to introduce redundancy into the system (by having two machines onsite, each encoding the live stream from the boards realtime and relaying to two geographically distinct icecast servers, each set up as fallbacks for the other).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Has anybody here had to deal with a similar problem and/or have suggestions for the best way in which to proceed?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thank you very much for your help.<BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Michael Hale<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN><<A href="mailto:smiley@gift-culture.org">smiley@gift-culture.org</A>></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">gift culture:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.gift-culture.org">http://www.gift-culture.org</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">initstring:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.initstring.org">http://www.initstring.org</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">artificial music machine:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.artificialmusicmachine.com">http://www.artificialmusicmachine.com</A></FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>