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Upgrades Galore

Upgrades Galore

Tonight I updated the OS of my workstations, virtual servers,  physical servers, streaming software SAM Broadcasting from Spacial Audio and WordPress. My I started with my workstations and then my virtual servers including my Centos 7 web server that I run my blog on.

Then moved on to update my streaming media server which is W2012 R2. Right after that I updated my SAM Broadcaster software and my WordPress blogging\CMS software.

With SAM Broadcaster I also verified all my songs, backed up my database.

    Smooth Tip Sunday Set

    Smooth Tip Sunday Set

    Yes its Sunday and wanted to do some sounds on the smooth tip. This doesn’t meant that these will be love songs or some quiet storm mix though that thread will flow through its just means it will be songs with that flowing wide beat and cadence like a smooth drive on a smooth street in a nice ride.

     

    How about some Marc Staggers, Smokey Robinson, Sly & The Family Stone, Doobie Brothers, Sia, Rick James, Flying Lotus, Doug E. Fresh, Imagine Dragons, and more in that Gumbo Mix from “Snakeice’s House of beats.”

     

    Updated Main & Backup Streaming Server Database & Application

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    Yeah I went for it last night and this morning, first updated my backup streaming server database and application. I had previously attempted to do this earlier in the week but had issues when my MySQL database starting eating up the CPU with the process that updates my Linux web server.

    On the backup server I tried to update to the current version from MySQL 5.5 to MySQL 5.6.2 of the current database didn’t work so I removed 5.5 and reinstalled the current version database MySQL 5.6.2 fresh.

    I then did a backup of my current working application and database using the SAM Broadcaster application on my primary music server and copied that backup over to the backup server. When I tried using SAM Broadcaster to import as I normally do it erred out with an error complaining about “restore failed duplicate entry for…” one of my songs. I tried backup of the main server again and a couple of restores but kept getting the same error. I figured the error was now due to the fact that the two databases were different versions with MySQL 5.1 on my primary music server and 5.6.2 now on my backup server.

    So now due to the different version of MySQL on both servers I decided to bypass using the SAM application backup and restore did a MySQL dump from the primary backup server from version 5.1 copied it over to the backup streaming server imported that dump to my fresh and new MySQL 5.6.2 and it worked. I then started SAM Broadcaster to see how my streaming software liked the new database and it could not see the new database from SAM.

    I now decided to update SAM broadcaster to the current version of SAM 2013.4 and restarted MySQL service and started SAM and still could not see the new database with the application. This prompted me to uninstall SAM and reinstall and setup from scratch pointing to the new settings I had created with “MySQL Workbench”. This worked fine and I could now see the new database instance!

    I then configured SAM Broadcaster to talk to my ftp site on my web server to update my album artwork automatically and sync to my MySQL database on my Linux web server ( I run Windows 2003 on my Streaming servers currently). I finished updating my user and license information in SAM Broadcaster 2013.4 did another dump from MySQL on my primary music streaming server since it had been running streaming music and updating this whole time I wanted to get to the point I could cut over from my backup server to start at the next song queued on my primary server.

    Once all my settings were configured on my backup I stopped my primary music streaming server, forwarded my ports in my router to my backup server, insured my Shoutcast server instance had started, was set to start automatically and now I was streaming on my backup server.

    I then repeated this whole process on my primary server and that’s where I am now playing on my backup server but updating some other application packages on my primary server plus running some utilities and scans that should improve the performance plus updating supporting applications.

    So kickback go up top and click on a link to listen to some crazy Internet Radio streaming music!

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    A Very Late Mellow Monday Mix

    A Very Late Mellow Monday Mix

    I like to cook so let’s mix something in a little smooth, toss in something that touches that hidden spot so it can put you  too sleep or take you somewhere you may wish to be.

    Let’s play Eagles, Floacist, Naj

    ee, Ashford & Simpson, Ready for the World, Beyonce, The Time, The Temptations and more

    Eagles

    Cover of Eagles

    Najee

    Cover of Najee

    The Temptations

    Cover of The Temptations

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    Early Spring Night Slow Jams In the Winter

    Early Spring Night Slow Jams In the Winter

    The groundhog said there will ba an early spring so  to increase that swell of good will I am going to pump out some smooth sounds to help bring on the rush of sprint time weather!

    Bringing it with a little Al Green, George Benson, Richard Elliot, Vanessa Williams, Linda Ronstadt, Rufus & Chaka Khan, Trey Songz, Melody Garbot, Tony Bennet and so many more….

    Oh yeah its already started so just tune in….

          You can listen at the following bit rates with Shoutcast supported audio players (I use Winamp or  VLC) :

          ” http://dhoytt.com:8000/32kbps ”   32kbps

          ” http://dhoytt.com:8000/128kbps ” 128kbps

          ” http://dhoytt.com:8000/160kbps ” 160kbps

          ” http://dhoytt.com:8000/320kbps ”  320kbps

     

    Some audio software/streamers/players tend to want you to listen in this format:

          ” http://dhoytt.com:8000/listen.pls?sid=4 ” 32kbps

          ” http://dhoytt.com:8000/listen.pls?sid=3 ”     128kbps

    Vanessa Williams

    Cover of Vanessa Williams

          ” http://dhoytt.com:8000/listen.pls?sid=2 ” 160kbps

          ” http://dhoytt.com:8000/listen.pls?sid=1 ”    320kbps

     

          ” mms://dhoytt.com:3690/listen.pls ”     Windows media will connect @ 32kbps, 128kbps,160kbps, 320kbps

     

          You can cut and paste the above links between the quotes into a browser and they will pull up your audio player, enter the links into your player or click on one of the players or links on the site @ http://www.dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/ .

     

          When I listen at home I listen to 320kbps and when at the gym listening on my mobile phone I listen using 128kbps using Winamp mobile, VLC or Xia Live. In areas where reception is not good I do 32kbps.

    Hummin' to Myself (Linda Ronstadt album)

    Hummin’ to Myself (Linda Ronstadt album) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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    Friday Night Heavyweight Sounds

    Friday Night Heavyweight Sounds

    I got the heavyweight punching sound lined up this Friday night! Going back dropping hits off on your corner of the Internet! The packages are surprises that will make you say hey I recall that song or danged I didn’t know that artist ran it down like that or just something new but always pumping with various genres as you will only get from Snakeice’s House of Beats!

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    Corrected Network Issues Affecting Music Server

    Corrected Network Issues Affecting Music Server

    There seemed to be a brief network interruption on my systems and then the bind order of my NIC’s changed which caused my music to attempt to stream over the incorrect network card. I went ahead and corrected this issue by disabling the secondary NIC restarting all service on the Music Server and then correcting the bind order so that if the network blinks for a brief second as happened this time the proper network card will be streaming the music.

    Once the Shoutcast config let’s you bind to a specific network card of course this wil be no issue at all!

    As always since 2004 just kick back and enjoy the music from Snakeice’s House of Beats!!!

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    Monday Late Evening Chilled Summer Sounds

    Monday Late Evening Chilled Summer Sounds

    Who says that Mondays have to be feared? Let’s make the last part of Monday here on the West Coast of the U.S. a chilled and mellow for a while if you are still up and if you are in another region of the world hey you just chill on your own time with us.

    Now i

    Bebel Gilberto

    Cover of Bebel Gilberto

    ts time for some Snakeice “House of Beats” style featuring: Doobie Brothers, Tyrese, Rihanna, Monica, Teena Marie, Jennifer Lopez, Euge Grove, Jamie Fox, Bebel Gilberto, Raphael Saadiq and more.

    Raphael Saadiq performing at the Eurockéennes ...

    Raphael Saadiq performing at the Eurockéennes de Belfort 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    Monica

    Cover of Monica

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