February 1, 2025
by dhoytt
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Application Freezing Resolved for Now

That application freezing seems to be gone even after extended play of over 2.5 hours after my last change. Normally it shows up slightly in a half hour or less and gets wors as it moves on. I had ruled out database versions as I tried MariaDB 10.5 and 11.6. I didn’t want to try […] Continue reading

February 1, 2025
by dhoytt
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Working on Fine Tuning Windows Streaming Application

After making the updates earlier this week of the streaming application SAM Broadcaster I started experiencing some freezes. I have made some audio changes in the application since the freezes happened between music changes and cross fades.  I also ran maintenance on the databases as well as switched between 2 different versions of the database […] Continue reading

January 27, 2025
by dhoytt
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Updated to Latest Broadcast Software other Items

Updated to the latest version of Sam Broadcaster yestreday and today did some cleanup re-adding the countdown script on the website. I updated the Windows OS W2019 that SAM runs on. I then decided to update both of my Fedora Linux 41 relay servers the primary and backup. I noticed the primary VM I run […] Continue reading

May 6, 2023
by dhoytt
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Brief Music Stream Interruption Updating W2019 OS

Needed to update Windows Server 2019 where my music resides and plays SAM Broadcaster to the latest OS security patches. The Linux systems the IceCast and ShoutCast music relays reside on didn’t get updated at this time.

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May 14, 2022
by dhoytt
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System Updates Stream

A few updates where due in the music stream so decided to update the Windows 2019 data center OS that hosts the music application Sam Broadcaster and the music stream relay OS on Linux Fedora that hosts IceCast and ShoutCast streams with the stunnel as well. So far everything looks good and will be up […] Continue reading

March 28, 2022
by dhoytt
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Patch Updates Streaming Servers

That time once again updating my W2019 Datacenter streaming server along with my Fedora 34 IceCast\Shoutcast streams that connect to the streaming server to serve up the music. I shall be back online in a bit back streaming music.
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January 19, 2022
by dhoytt
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Security Patch Updates Music Servers

Installed a plethora of Windows 2019 Data Center updates on the music server that hosts the music stream. I also decided to update the system with the IceCast and ShoutCast relays which is a Linux Fedora 34 system.
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December 17, 2021
by dhoytt
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Updated W2019 Server Application Host and Linux Fedora Relay Host

I started with the update of the W2019 Datacenter server I run the Sam Broadcasting software on and has my MySQL database that it utilizes on it and then started patches and security updates of my Fedoras 34 system that handles the relays of ShoutCast and IceCast. I have already updated my Fedora web server […] Continue reading

September 20, 2021
by dhoytt
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Snakeice House of Beats Music Server Patch Maintenance

Performing OS maintenance patching on my music streaming and music relay servers. One server is running Linux Fedora and the other is running the application and database for the music I play along with hosting the music files. Will be … Continue reading Continue reading