Icecast Streaming Media Server

[TonyOlivero]

Hello:

I will be working with an organization this weekend to live stream their event. I have the Icecast server setup and tested. I've configured a fallback mount that I would like to play one file during times when we are not actively streaming (this will announce when we will be live), and a different file when we're streaming, but our connection dropped for some reason.

I was looking for an automated solution to swap the file that is served as the fallback mount. Using cron, I would have it "flip" between the "we're offline" and "technical difficulties" files; setting up a job to cp the right file into /fallback.mp3 a couple minutes before we were done for the day.

Is there a better way to do this? Does anyone know of a better way to change the content of the fallback?

Thanks,
Tony

[karlH]

you should be able to change the xml and reload it, eg via the HUP signal. Overwriting the fallback file may not be a reliable way to handle it but possible.

karl.

[robertut]

I would just overwrite the XML with a new config pointing to the new file and hit reload.