Icecast Streaming Media Server

Anonymous · Guest

ok. . . here my problem,

i dont have enough DJs to get a 24 hour stream, so i thought i would use icecast to have a fallback. I would like to store 1GB of music on a web server somewhere, and then have the fallback stage playing the music there, now, i believe this can be done using 2 mountpoints for example

/live
/fallback

and have /live fallback to /fallback

and to get the music playing on /fallback use ICES, am i right?

i have tried setting this up locally to test but it doesnt fallback, when /live is dropped i dont hear anything, or it loops, i would be streaming in .mp3PRO

Many thanks in advance,
Mick

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

EvilOverlord · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:06 pm Post subject: Re: fallbacks?

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

Maybe not, mp3pro is supposed to follow mp3 specs AFAIK so it should be compatible, but as you say, a different decoder may be required for the playback for it to be worthwhile.

karl

Guest · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject:

when i tested it locally, i had 2 streams running, and they were exactly the same, just differnt music, both streaming at 64kbps, encoding MP3PRO, so i dont know why it didnt work

square_eyes · Joined: 18 Oct 2011 Posts: 83

Just to revive this one...

I am using mp3 pro for a low fi version of my stream 56kbs mono. I can't seem to make the fallback work with a 56kbs mono lame mp3.

I don't know how or where to create an mp3 pro file.

So far I have tried...

1. Creating a dummy encoder in SAM Broadcaster, set to the same specs streaming silence, and archiving it. This just produces a 0kb file.
2. Grabbing the dll from SAM and dropping it in Audacity (can't find a dll, just a .drv, which doesn't ork)

Any ideas?

square_eyes · Joined: 18 Oct 2011 Posts: 83

OK, turns out I had...

<fallback-mount>loading.mp3</fallback-mount>

Instead of...

<fallback-mount>/loading.mp3</fallback-mount>

Oddly enough, my 56kbs mp3pro falls back to my 64kbs lame test tone:) when playing in VLC.

I'm aligning it to be sure though.

For those that might want to know I'm using mp3pro purely because I think it sounds better at lower bitrates. Thinner sound, but less artifacts and antialiasing (think that's the right word... washy silabants anyway).

Andalso, #1 above wasn't creating a file via SAM, because I think it has smarts built in to not archive any silence. I was able to produce a file when music was playing.