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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 route and shoot it over to an NFS share if things don’t work out.

UPDATE: Decided to clone the entire music server to my NAS so it’s taking a lot longer to clone both boot drive and drive that holds the music. I could have went with just the boot drive and copied the music over later but block by block copies faster even though the music server is down longer. This is a good baseline system restore just in case I needed anyway.

I’ll start the sytem back up after this and start the music since it’s late. I can test the disk to disk remote source on my Zoneminder CCTV server. I don’t anticipate issues with either procedure though you never know, I did have to work around a kernel panic initially this evening on my bl460c g7 blade music server when I first started the clone.

This is the current disposition of the process though it’s now going much faster. Running this via ILO 3 in my QEMU KVM on my Fedora 42 workstation in a W2012 r2 datacenter trial via IE so I can use ILO3 with the latest stable version of Clonezilla clonezilla-live-3.2.2-15-amd64.

Saturday Setup of Music

Setting up some music for this Saturday that promises mild temperatures here in Northern California after system updates and of course I’m the music sharing with everyone who can access it around the WWW.

Mixing the old with the new and all genres is the play as usual.

Types of artists featured represented like some of these names Howard Hewett, Foghat, Cecile, SZA, Architects, Cocoa Tea, Mistah F.A.B, so you hear a nice mixture of genres.

Spring Cleaning Music

I sprinkled in some good music to perform some spring cleaning while inside or outside of the house or just choose to listen!

Types of artists featured today are like Lady Gaga, ZZ Top, Kelea, Ice-T, Chris Brown, Nyashane, Tyga are just a cross section of represented artists of various genres.

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March Rains Workout Beats

Well what do we have here but another set of workout tunes for a Friday workout during some bad weather if your power is on! Forget this its not only for working out but just going around the house bumping the head and sliding around.

I like it wild quite a bit but its all mixed in there just to have fun but of course sometimes its just the beats, melodies that ignite that feeling then mixed in with the lyrics. Just about all genres and eras represented to let’s get to it.

Types of music represented folllow these artists EPMD, Nas, Luke Combs, Rihanna, Sexyy Red, Run DMC, Dead Daises etc..

Some Nice Mixed Genre Mellow Type Songs

Here at Snakeice’s House of Beats the mixed genre mixes are the norm so I’m doing this one to enjoy what appears to be the fix of the issues I had earlier this week updating things.

Artists like Julian Lange, Linda Ronstadt, Jesse Lanza, D’Angelo, Simple Minds, just check in for a few mellow hours and kick back.

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 10.3 which is packaged with the application. I stayed with 10.5 just because that’s what I have been using the past few years and wanted to keep all my categories and changes I had made.

The fix seemed to be a complete uninstall. Before the uninstall I copied the data and program folders in place. Then uninstalled, started a new install, refused to install the packaged10.3 MariaDB DB, imported my music files.

When the SAM application came up all my encoders that convert the music to point to my relay servers were not in place and neither were the statistical relays or my categories of music. Now I shut down the application and database, then moved the copied data and program files back into place and started the DB, then the application.

Well, I should have gone to 11.6 as I ended up wiping out some of the database instance information anyway. I didn’t deem it important enough to restore it to an older date if I was able to mass load the album covers and track information from the songs I had properly tagged. Well, the mass loading of track information and album covers from those files worked and created the correct pointers in the database.

In summary the reason for the re-install and moving of the directories was because I caught some permission issues and unhandled exception errors. Application permission errors performing a backup which I just needed to change those folders permissions. There used to be an option to select different folders to backup to. I have evidence of years of backups to my other drive.

The other remedy was during the install pointing to a my USB sound river device even though I had done that withing the cross-fade and mixer configs.

For now, I’ll monitor and take a backup of the MariaDB database instance and monitor the music and system performance.

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 which seemed to not matter.

I had also installed some Windows OS patches, so I installed and reinstalled them as well.

There are no definitive errors in any of the log files for the applications or Windows event logs. This is where I like Linux as you have the flexibility to try so much and can parse the log files so much better.

There are a lot of components to consider and besides freezing there are no obvious hard errors.  I need to find ways to turn on more debugging to get more verbose information.

I’ll keep monitoring to see if the changes help but it seems that as the app goes further without stopping it starts freezing more like it has some type of memory leak or similar issue.

I’ll get it worked out as I always do! Hang in there with me!

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 on XCP.ng was running much faster with less CPUs and reduced the CPU’s of my secondary relay server to 2 CPUs. Seems like it was most likely wasting time handing processes off to the other CPUs instead of processing.

I also updated my Rocky Linux version 9.5 web server to the latest OS settings. I updated the WordPress plugins and themes also.

I have a few more tweaks to come but up and running having fun!

Requests Re-Enabled

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:

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