[Vorbis] Permanent stream

[Jeff Simmons]

Hi, all. I'm setting up a system that streams audio from a public radio studio 
to it's transmitter on a mountaintop via a wireless IP link. The stream is a 
high quality ogg-vorbis stream (around 200 kbps). The server (icecast) is 
working perfectly.

The client (I'm using ogg123) has to connect 24/7/365, but it occasionally 
(maybe every couple of days) looses the stream and stops. So I'm presently 
starting it up in a shell script as an infinite loop (while true, ogg123 ...) 
and putting it in the background NOHUP. Works fine, but I was wondering if 
anyone had a better way to do this.

Also, would it be a good idea to restart the stream every, say, 4am, to deal 
with time-sync differences between the sound cards?

Thanks.

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