August 21, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on More Maintenance Had to Shutdown Music Server Temporarily
Ended up updating the XCP-ng hypervisor virtualization server the music sits on which I made virtual this year. Since I passed through a physical USB it couldn’t migrate to the the other XCP-ng server. You can read about it on another blog on this networked site. Continue reading
July 25, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Passed Through USB Sound Device XCP-ng
I passed through a USB sound device via the XCP-ng UI on version 8.3. Went fairly well but sounded a bit scratchy when I used the device in VM in my Broadcasting application Sam Broadcaster. I’ll try using it again but so far having to go with my silent output for my sound pipeline in […] Continue reading
July 18, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updated the Music Servers
I updated my W2025 Data Center music server and IceCast and ShoutCast music relay servers. I had already setup some upbeat music and then I’ll wind down to something a bit mellower and then let the algorithm take over with my database about 4am PST.
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June 28, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Switched to New Music Server Updated Relay Server
I moved to my new virtual machine on my new XCP-ng virtualization servers I built and I also took my music relay server to the latest version of OS. I am moved off of my c7000 blade server with this update and can shut down this final blade that had my music, playlist, database etc […] Continue reading
June 27, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Moved to Backup Music Relay Server
Moved to my backup music server while I update my normal music server to the latest version of Fedora version 44. The backup server is already at Fedora 44. You may be prompted for another ssl certificate though it’s the same as the other server. This is all in preparation of going to my new […] Continue reading
November 15, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Back Streaming the Music for Snakeice’s House of Beats
Well the Windows 2019 server took multiple reboots plus takes 5 times as long to boot since it physical server versus a VM like my Fedora Linux music Relay server. Back up and running some Gumbo mixes from Snakeice’s House of Beats with artists like Miles Davis and Robert Glasper, Stylistics, Toni Braxton, ACDC, Run […] Continue reading
November 15, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updating Music Servers Snakeices House of Beats
Hate interrupting the musical flow I have set for this breezy Saturday at least here in California but I need to update my music servers of W2019 and my Fedora Linux music relay servers. In the midst of some a nice mixed genre Saturday mix with jazz, R&B, Rock, Hip-Hop, Reggae even Country from all […] Continue reading
October 4, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Back Streaming After Power Shutdowns
I had a UPS malfunction and then take down my other UPS’s but I’m all up and running again. The story is here https://dhoytt.com/mainblog/2025/10/server-ups-crashed-but-back-up/. I had a nice set setup for a wild late Friday night and was in the midst of that when everything went down but I still have several hours setup and […] Continue reading
September 20, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updated OS on Music Related Servers
Updated my music relay servers for IceCast and ShoutCast which run on Fedora Linux 41 currently and my server they connect to that I use for my streaming application that on Windows 2019 currently.
A bit more on the updte here: https://dhoytt.com/m… Continue reading
July 31, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Music Server Back and Streaming
Well the clone of the system was going fine and hit the 100 percent mark with the data drive and then seemed to panic when it went to the boot drive. I’ll have to review the log files. Either way I’m bringing the music server back online! I’ll review what the issue is with the […] Continue reading