Just like that back up and streaming music over the internet from my upstairs home computer room to wherever you are ! The w2019 server with streaming software is up that then relays to my Linux Fedora 34 system with ShoutCast and Icecast.
This is the place the music happens and you can keep up with what’s playing real time: https://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/now-playing/
Doing another update of the server OS of W2019 Datacenter of my streaming OS server. Will be back up streaming again shortly
Doing some basic Windows 2012-r2 updates of the streaming server. Taking a bit longer than necessary as I took my eyes off of it and it had hung. Will be up and streaming momentarily.The streaming server is Windows 2012-r2 and the web server is currently running Centos 7 with relays of IceCast on the Linux server and ShoutCast relays on the Windows server.
Finally updated XCP-ng to 8.1 from 7.6 via local iso burned to a CD and it seems fine so far though it’s only just booted up.
I have a lot going on currently so hope to get back and test the functions more later. Right now just making sure my virual XCP-ng enviornment and VM’s are solid. I also downloaded the latest version of XCP-ng Center 20.03.01 and did a quick deploy of the new XOA.
For Snakeice’s House of Beats this took down my IceCast relays as the virtual system I have lives in my XCP-ng enviornment.
Will post more on XCP-ng later hopefully.
I’m doing the morning workout routine in the gym since not hitting my running like I want just yet, so setting up that mix to keep the grind flow moving.
I will be hitting with some of the following artists: One Republic, Souls of Mischief, Cypress Hill Crew, Rakaa, Jhene Aiko, Fka Twigs, Nas, Esther Dean and as always so many more in the mix.
Tonight I am evaluating a new music server I built. I have a new OS and new hardware with updated streaming application. There has been a little up and down with the music stream as I get everything configured but it’s looking very good!
I will end up having the equal amount of streams on Icecast as I have had for years on Shoutcast with identical bit rates.
This new setup will allow me to also use my NAS setup to manage my music better. There will be less buffering for listeners even with the amount of encoders I have running more than doubling the system is handling this increase with very little memory or CPU impact.
Stay tuned the backend is changing dramatically and I like to have that solid before making the website changes that will better reveal my backend updates for you to use.
Back up and playing music after getting the systems back up from a power outage in the area. I do need to update the batteries in my UPS battery backup systems though!
One of my internal core switches on one of my networks went out overnight and I had to replace it this morning. This caused an outage for a while in areas of the site, including the radios stream the “House of Beats”. Everything is up an running as it has been since 2004 once again!
Well I fixed an issue I had not known existed because I had not been doing my due diligence in monitoring certain elements lately. The windows media encoder had crashed and then disappeared on my music server when I upgraded and I usually monitor with Shoutcast enabled media players so I didn’t notice the issue with the Windows media encoder since I seldom listen and monitor with the Windows Media player.
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The next step is to enter in the in the path to the music “mms://dhoytt.com:3690” in the dialogue box:
