I started with the update of the W2019 Datacenter server I run the Sam Broadcasting software on and has my MySQL database that it utilizes on it and then started patches and security updates of my Fedoras 34 system that handles the relays of ShoutCast and IceCast. I have already updated my Fedora web server earlier in the week along with my WordPress to the latest versions along with the themes and plugins.
New Music Server Switch Complete
Well I built up the new server moved over the database and pointed the configuration files and ports to the new server off of the evaluation server and the migration from old server is complete. I actually went from older server, then to evaluation server and now permanent server as of now. This is something I normally do every 2 or 3 years dependant on technology changes. I went a bit longer than normal this time so was really due for an update!
Basically I moved my SAM Broadcaster software off of an old ancient system running Xeon multi-core (not dual core) with W2003 to evaluation copy of W2012 R2 with dual Quad core Xeon CPUs server for testing then to w2012 R2 Essentials for my permanent solution also running dual Quad core Xeon CPUs with more memory on the music streaming side of the house. I continue to run my web servers with Fedora & Centos Linux flavors mostly in the virtual environment of XenServer with FreeNAS providing the storage. Now the evaluation music server which is identical will switch to music server backup.
What the new server provides is the ability to scale the way I want with double the encoders without impacting CPU or memory as on my older system. You will hear a much cleaner sound with less buffering. I also went back to using internal soundcards since the USB with 2012 r2 seemed a bit flaky but the side on this is it will also provide much better sound with the way I use SAM and better interface if I want to use items such as mikes or other inputs.
More updates coming soon on the web side of the house since the backend is stronger so stay tuned but in the mean time enjoy the updated sounds provided from my update of the music server!
Switching to New Music Streaming Server Post Evaluation
Well the new permanent music server is now ready so now going to move off the new evaluation server which will serve as backup to my new music server. I will be offline streaming music as I move the database and point ports to the new server.
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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Updated the Streaming Software Again
After being unable to sleep due to allergies tonight and then checking the station I found it was stuck and not playing music for a good part of Sunday. I first want to apologize for that if you were attempting to listen Sunday. I will however be installing soon some monitoring software that will alert me more quickly when something occurs like this. I was occupied with some rentals getting them ready and then attending a Super Bowl party and didn’t monitor the station as I normally do. The application erred out after the OS experienced an error. As I mentioned before I have been reviewing monitoring software lately that will monitor this events such as this and report to me no matter where I am located and I will then be able to login from anywhere and correct the issues. I will be updating several items in the infrastructure soon so stay tuned! This specific issue affected only the music stream.
I took this time to update the streaming software once again which improved some database calls and reporting and there will be some updated web pages due to changes in PHP files with the software so once again stay tuned! I am never standing still and the “House of Beats” Internet streaming station has been updating and improving consistently since 2004 and will continue moving forward!