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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

http://dhoytt.com:8030/64kbps

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

http://dhoytt.com:8000/64kbps

Shoutcast encrypted streams:

https://dhoytt.com:8002/320kbps
https://dhoytt.com:8002/192kbps
https://dhoytt.com:8002/128kbps
https://dhoytt.com:8002/64kbps

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!

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!

Music Relays Operating on New Server

The music relays of IceCast and ShoutCast are now operating on one of my my new virtual servers running Fedora 34. I created my firewall openings on my router and on the OS plus created new selinux policies for ShoutCast and IceCast. Tested connecting locally and remotely and everything looks good.

The Snakeice’s House of Beats streams are back up on the streaming relays!

Moving Music Stream Relays to New Server

Moving my music streaming relays of IceCast and ShoutCast to a new server that’s dedicated and virtual. I was always planning on making this move but some memory leaks by another program has made it more critical. This is always my goal to make operations more modular. I can also clone this virtuals system for a backup very easily. I still need to point my firewall to the appropriate system and ports along with my streaming application so there will be a moment of no streaming music. I’ll post after all is up and running again.

Mid-Sunday Workout Sounds

Mid-Sunday Workout Sounds

Doing that workout thing while watching the Lakers vs Sun game and another advantage to working out at home I always missed after going to the gym and giving away my home gym equipment years ago.

Just throwing out song I want to hear in no particular order while having game on low and music up a bit.

Artists like the Eagles, Michael Jackson , The Offsping, Grandmaster Flash, H.E.R, The Weeknd you get it, the unique Snakeice House of Beats mix.