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Upgrades Galore

Upgrades Galore

Tonight I updated the OS of my workstations, virtual servers,  physical servers, streaming software SAM Broadcasting from Spacial Audio and WordPress. My I started with my workstations and then my virtual servers including my Centos 7 web server that I run my blog on.

Then moved on to update my streaming media server which is W2012 R2. Right after that I updated my SAM Broadcaster software and my WordPress blogging\CMS software.

With SAM Broadcaster I also verified all my songs, backed up my database.

    Rebooting Streaming Server After Updates Back in a Bit

    Update the OS that has the streaming server so there will be a slight break in the music stream though the website will be up while I reboot my server I stream the music from.

     

    As an update on this I also updated the streaming application I use SAM Broadcaster to the latest version and my IceCast relay server system which is of course another separate system. The streaming server is W2012 r2 and the IceCast server is running Linux Centos 7 as is my web server. I stream to ShoutCast from my windows 2012 R2 streaming server that has SAM Broadcaster on it.

    Evaluating New Streaming Music Server Tonight\This Morning

    Tonight I am evaluating a new music server I built. I have a new OS and new hardware with updated streaming application. There has been a little up and down with the music stream as I get everything configured but it’s looking very good!

    I will end up having the equal amount of streams on Icecast as I have had for years on Shoutcast with identical bit rates.

    This new setup will allow me to also use my NAS setup to manage my music better. There will be less buffering for listeners even with the amount of encoders I have running more than doubling the system is handling this increase with very little memory or CPU impact.

    Stay tuned the backend is changing dramatically and I like to have that solid before making the website changes that will better reveal my backend updates for you to use.

    Updated Main & Backup Streaming Server Database & Application

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    Yeah I went for it last night and this morning, first updated my backup streaming server database and application. I had previously attempted to do this earlier in the week but had issues when my MySQL database starting eating up the CPU with the process that updates my Linux web server.

    On the backup server I tried to update to the current version from MySQL 5.5 to MySQL 5.6.2 of the current database didn’t work so I removed 5.5 and reinstalled the current version database MySQL 5.6.2 fresh.

    I then did a backup of my current working application and database using the SAM Broadcaster application on my primary music server and copied that backup over to the backup server. When I tried using SAM Broadcaster to import as I normally do it erred out with an error complaining about “restore failed duplicate entry for…” one of my songs. I tried backup of the main server again and a couple of restores but kept getting the same error. I figured the error was now due to the fact that the two databases were different versions with MySQL 5.1 on my primary music server and 5.6.2 now on my backup server.

    So now due to the different version of MySQL on both servers I decided to bypass using the SAM application backup and restore did a MySQL dump from the primary backup server from version 5.1 copied it over to the backup streaming server imported that dump to my fresh and new MySQL 5.6.2 and it worked. I then started SAM Broadcaster to see how my streaming software liked the new database and it could not see the new database from SAM.

    I now decided to update SAM broadcaster to the current version of SAM 2013.4 and restarted MySQL service and started SAM and still could not see the new database with the application. This prompted me to uninstall SAM and reinstall and setup from scratch pointing to the new settings I had created with “MySQL Workbench”. This worked fine and I could now see the new database instance!

    I then configured SAM Broadcaster to talk to my ftp site on my web server to update my album artwork automatically and sync to my MySQL database on my Linux web server ( I run Windows 2003 on my Streaming servers currently). I finished updating my user and license information in SAM Broadcaster 2013.4 did another dump from MySQL on my primary music streaming server since it had been running streaming music and updating this whole time I wanted to get to the point I could cut over from my backup server to start at the next song queued on my primary server.

    Once all my settings were configured on my backup I stopped my primary music streaming server, forwarded my ports in my router to my backup server, insured my Shoutcast server instance had started, was set to start automatically and now I was streaming on my backup server.

    I then repeated this whole process on my primary server and that’s where I am now playing on my backup server but updating some other application packages on my primary server plus running some utilities and scans that should improve the performance plus updating supporting applications.

    So kickback go up top and click on a link to listen to some crazy Internet Radio streaming music!

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    Power Outage Affects Blog Temporarily

    Had a power outage today and I was away
    from the office but everything came back online by itself except the
    music didn’t begin streaming. The cause of the power outage I am
    guessing is the street construction about a block away. I have not
    been told that the construction is officially the cause of the power
    outage so I will have to check sources later but its my guess.

    I will have to design a batch script
    for the various components of the music to come up in proper order
    once the system is rebooted for my music server since this is the
    only system that didn’t restart the software I use properly. When I
    get a chance I will test it on my backup music server. The challenge
    will be automating the music stream start and encoders.

    My Linux boxes that host my web
    servers & game servers appear to have come back and executed the
    start-up scripts just fine, the server that streams the music is on
    Windows.

    I am posting this message on my all of
    my blogs:

    Home: http://www.dhoytt.com/

    Darryl Hoytt’s Personal Blog:

    http://www.dhoytt.com/mainblog/

    Snakeice’s “House of Beats” Radio
    Blog:

    http://www.dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/

    Da’ Hoytt’s Online Games Blog:

    http://www.dhoytt.com/da_hoytt_games_blog/

    Darryl’s Sales Items:

    http://www.dhoytt.com/forsale/

    Switching to another Music Server

    Switching to another system to use as music server! Making the switch due to the fact that the two new servers I was going to make into web servers have 32 bit Xeon CPU’s and the current music server has 64 bit CPU’s.
    This way I didn’t have to waste the 64 bit Xeon current music server on 32 bit Windows OS and I could move it to a 64 bit OS Linux platform as a web server which I am working on being a web server with stronger live multimedia streaming capabilities.
    Now I can use the two systems I was configuring into web servers into my music server and backup music server fully optimizing the Windows 32 bit OS I’m using.
    I’m also thinking of moving my former long running music server I moved out of service a couple of weeks ago into the role of another web server or backup web server role.
    I also dug around town and found another set of rails so I could properly mount one of the new music servers the way I wanted to and added a gigabit NIC to each system to work with the onboard gigabit NIC and disable the 10/100 bit NIC onboard. I also added a soundcard to each for music preview and allowing of other input devices like microphone’s etc. Then with configuring the systems to talk to my web server, firewall, databases, etc.., I’m ready to switch over to the new music server, again!
    I also introduced another music stream at a higher bit rate for you audiophiles out there @ 320kbs and will place a link on my web page at some point soon along with some new listener links and the current link reconfigured.
    I will be redoing the whole site on the new web site which is my former music server I just moved off of today soon.
    Ok time o switch over to the new system!