Rebooting Streaming Server After Patches Update I did an update of my Windows 2019 Data Center system, and I am performing a reboot that will temporarily interrupt music streaming.
Monday Evening Workout Sounds
Going full media immersion with music going and Football on one screen and baseball on the other using picture in picture side by side while working out.
I’m already warming up a bit and putting the contacts in the eyes so decided to get the music setup for the next several hours of a nice relaxing workout at home. The joys of once again having workout equipment at home but this time in a smaller package than all the weights and machines I had before Already had some Drake, Tinashe, Nipsey Hussle, Metallica, Attila, will have more artists like the blended in the mix. Maybe some Run DMC, Sugar Hill Gang, Lil Wayne, Michel’le, Pooh Shiesty let’s see what pops up on the play list.
Then a little later around 10 PM PST if not a bit earlier I’ll slow it down here at Snakeice’s House of Beats.
You want to listen along and see what’s playing next go to the “Snakeice’s Now Playing Page”. You can also just input and o these following URL’s into a music player like VLC and listen:
Icecast non-encrypted streams:
http://dhoytt.com:8030/320kbps
http://dhoytt.com:8030/160kbps
http://dhoytt.com:8030/128kbps
Icecast encrypted streams:
https://dhoytt.com:8032/320kbps
https://dhoytt.com:8032/160kbps
https://dhoytt.com:8032/128kbps
https://dhoytt.com:8032/64kbps
Shoutcast non-encrypted streams:
http://dhoytt.com:8000/320kbps
http://dhoytt.com:8000/192kbps
http://dhoytt.com:8000/128kbps
Shoutcast encrypted streams:
https://dhoytt.com:8002/320kbps
https://dhoytt.com:8002/192kbps
Short Late Night Workout Beats
A nice short string of select workout songs fro a quick late night sweat session. Not going to list the songs at or artist at this time because I need to get to it but listen and be surprised! The songs have already started at 10:30 PM PST and so has the stretching and sweat.
Music Relay Streams Available to Connect After Update
I’m back up and streaming it took a little longer as I had to boot up off an old kernel due to some issues I will investigate later. Let’s se how more memory allocated to the music relay streams for IceCast and ShoutCast work for performance and quality.
Updating Memory on Relay Streaming Server\VM
I am increasing the memory on my relay server on my XCP-Ng hypervisor I use to stream the music, and this will require a reboot. While the system reboots no one will be able to connect with the music streams though the songs will continue playing and the website will not go down. The increased memory will lessen swapping of resources to hard drive and increase performance.
Since I’m rebooting for memory update, I decided to install some OS patches as well. Music stream connections will be back up shortly.
Change In Music Relay Ports for IceCast Streams Plus adding SSL to Streams
I am consolidating all my streaming ports to 8000 for ShoutCast unencrypted and 8002 for encrypted then IceCast non-encrypted streams to port 8030 with encrypted IceCast on port 8032 with the same mounts for all bit rates. I’m making this change not solely for the benefit of streaming ssl so modern browsers and some applications will not block the unencrypted streams I wanted less ports opened. I ad intended to do this for a while but had to prioritize and get my infrastructure in place first before implementing changes on top of that layer.
You can still stream at different bitrates but now to get the ssl version of the streams for IceCast you would use port 8032 instead of 8030 and 8002 for ShoutCast instead of 8000 for unencrypted.
Here’s a list of the streams you can type of copy and paste into your favorite application or browser (use encrypted for modern browsers) to play the music streams:
Icecast non-encrypted streams:
http://dhoytt.com:8030/320kbps
http://dhoytt.com:8030/160kbps
http://dhoytt.com:8030/128kbps
Icecast encrypted streams:
Shoutcast non-encrypted streams:
http://dhoytt.com:8000/320kbps
http://dhoytt.com:8000/192kbps
http://dhoytt.com:8000/128kbps
Shoutcast encrypted streams:
As I tend to, I made this a modular change and made it as robust as possible, I tried different methodologies using Apache and Nginx I was familiar with but ultimately opting to go with stunnel which seemed to work better for streaming unencrypted music without added modules. My embedded music players on the site will now have the appropriate encrypted music streams in them. Since my stream is sourced by my W2019 Data Center server and must interact with that applications encoder unencrypted I wasn’t sure how the binds to the network ports would behave on my Linux system I use to relay the streams but worked that out and things are looking good!
Streaming Servers Down For Major Updates
The streaming server is down for OS updates as well as some other changes to how the streams will work. More updates when completed.
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 rebooting and then bringing the servers right back up after the patching and verification services are running.
Time for Monday Workouts
Getting in another Monday workout and pumping up the music to make it manic! I went a bit off of the weights to focus on the cardio to get the wind up but now mixing the weights back into the workouts. So a little more indoors workouts but will still get in some pool work after the weights and treadmill.
With the indoor time to workout will have some hip-hop classics, rock classics and present artists like Nina Simone, YG & Mozzy, Queen, Kurtis Blow, HRSMN and the list goes on! Let’s workout!
Evening Workout Music Mixture
Just sprinkling in a mix of music for a nice muddled workout. Artists like Original Concept, Nicki Minaj, Def Leppard, Michael Henderson, Michel’le, Polo G and then will go into some mellow sounds with artists like The Commodores, Sade, Dua Lipa with many more.
The usual mixture of different genres here at Snakeice’s House of Beats!