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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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/mainblog/2025/09/dhoytt-com-site-updates/

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 through again.