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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hi Timothy:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Thanks for the idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>However the radio station is on a remote vps running the linux Ubuntu 14.04 operating system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>We use to use another automation package prs but it hasn’t been updated in quite some time and it was becoming unstable and I kept having to reboot the automation to make it follow the server clock because it kept drifting and shows were not starting on time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Now I have all of the streams using the ezstream and ices combination along with Icecast and everything is running much smoother because the prerecorded shows are being launched from scripts via cron jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I am going to try Geoff’s suggestion and also I am going to see how well mp3gain does with the mp3 files we have on the server.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I’ll let everybody know what I decided to go with.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Thanks for all of the suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Larry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> icecast-bounces@xiph.org [mailto:icecast-bounces@xiph.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Timothy Clark Music<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 9, 2016 11:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> Icecast streaming server user discussions <icecast@xiph.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Icecast] ezstream question<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Larry, if you have a mac laying around, a solution would be to try Nicecast from Rogameba. i’m not sure if i’m spelling this correctly but the point to me making mention of this is to say this, the effects aren’t all that accessible. so, if you were to do that, sighted assistance would be recommended. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> just a thought. hope it helps.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Brother Timothy Clark<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30489975/www.reverbnation.com?p=eyJzIjoiNC01aWd5YVk0QkxONEZOSTl1TVhWZkNfZjZBIiwidiI6MSwicCI6IntcInVcIjozMDQ4OTk3NSxcInZcIjoxLFwidXJsXCI6XCJodHRwOlxcXC9cXFwvd3d3LnJldmVyYm5hdGlvbi5jb21cXFwvYnJvdGhlcnRpbW90aHljbGFya1wiLFwiaWRcIjpcImU0OTMwNTk3YjIxYjRlNWQ4OWU4YmUyZWY1MjQwMzk3XCIsXCJ1cmxfaWRzXCI6W1wiZWZiODA2NGIzYzg5YzlmMDFhNTkwYjcyMjJiZTg1YzY4MTBmMDdlZFwiXX0ifQ">http://www.reverbnation.com/brothertimothyclark</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Feb 9, 2016, at 10:03, Larry Turnbull <<a href="mailto:larry@acbradio.org">larry@acbradio.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Hi all:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I am managing a radio station that has 7 streams.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I am using icecast, ices and ezstream on the streams and overall it is working pretty well.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>One of the streams is an old time radio stream and I use ezstream to run the prerecorded shows.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The streams are 128K mp3 streams.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Also this station is running on a VPS using Ubuntu 14.04.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>My question:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Is there a package or some sort of way I can apply dynamic compression to the stream?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The old time radio stream plays many different old time radio shows and the volume is inconsistent.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>If you need more information please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Larry Turnbull<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>ACB Radio Managing Director<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border="0" width="1" height="1" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D17059.48137510" alt="Image removed by sender."></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'> </span></span><span 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