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Hey Tony,<br>
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Intro files need to be relative to the web/ directory. <br>
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With Windows you can create a symlink / hardlink to them (the link
itself residing in web/ ) but a shortcut won't work.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/131182-create-soft-hard-symbolic-links-windows.html">https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/131182-create-soft-hard-symbolic-links-windows.html</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
Jordan<br>
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P.S. Thanks Philipp for the expertise in libera.chat / #icecast ;)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">This is Windows version 2.4.4 on a VPS <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">The file I want to play is
E:\DAB1\Other\RNH\RNH-bulletins\twominnews.mp3<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I have set up a separate mounting point /news to
listen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Courier New"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New""> <mount type="normal"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Courier New"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"">
<mount-name>/news</mount-name><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;
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<burst-size>65536</burst-size><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Courier New"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"">
<intro>E:\DAB1\Other\RNH\RNH-bulletins\twominnews.mp3</intro><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;
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<public>0</public><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New""> </mount><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">This reports<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Courier New"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"">WARN source/source.c Cannot open
intro file
"./web\E:\DAB1\Other\RNH\RNH-bulletins\twominnews.mp3":
Invalid
argument<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">How can I get around the </span></font><font
face="Courier New"><span
style="font-family:"Courier New"">./web\E: </span></font><font
face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">error?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I have tried putting a shortcut in /web called </span></font><font
face="Courier New"><span
style="font-family:"Courier New"">twominnews.mp3</span></font><font
face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial"> that points at
the file and using
the intro tag as<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Courier New"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New""><intro>twominnews.mp3</intro><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">This reports <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Courier New"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"">WARN source/source.c Cannot open
intro file
"./web\twominnews.mp3": No such file or directory<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Courier New"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Any suggestions welcome<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Tony<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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