July 30, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Music Server MAintenance
Cloning the music server with Clonezilla so it will be down temporarily. This is my first time doing a clone in this fashion not sending the image to a storage disk and then uploading that image. I’m attempting to go from the server directly to the disk on a XCP-ng. I may go the old […] Continue reading
February 1, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on 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
Comments Off on 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
Comments Off on 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
January 26, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on REquests Re-Enabled
I re-enabled requests so https://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/now-playing/ then drop down into the following menu click on “Playlist & Request” and enter the song you want to listen to.
I still have other changes to make so come … Continue reading
January 26, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Corrected ICecast Secure connection
I corrected the IceCast secure port going to port 8032 I had going to the backup server still where I wasn’t serving that up through my router. I now have it pointing to the new sever and it serves up the following secure IceCast connections securely: ShoutCast has been working fine on port 8002: Continue reading
December 20, 2024
by dhoytt
Comments Off on OS Updates of the Application and Streaming Server
Doing OS security updates of the W2019 application server that’s the source where I keep music and encode the streams as well as the streaming Linux Fedora relay server where I share the IceCast and ShoutCast systems.
Will be down and then ri… Continue reading
November 30, 2024
by dhoytt
Comments Off on System Running on different original Relay Server
I was doing system maintenance of updating my System OS security patches of the system I source the music from earlier today and decided to point the source to the original stream relay server I had upgraded to the most recent release of Fedora yesterday jumping several OS versions. This way I could stay updated […] Continue reading
November 30, 2024
by dhoytt
Comments Off on System Maintenance
Performing OS updates from the originating stream server. Will also test updated IceCast and ShoutCast streaming relay server.
Be back up and streaming soon
May 1, 2024
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updated Site SSL Certificates and Streaming SSL Certificates
I updated the overall dhoytt.com ssl certificates as well as the ssl certificate associated with streams embedded in the site. If your are using a player that is secure just point to the streams and most will prompt you to update the cert or just update it. Here’s a list of my streams and bitrates […] Continue reading