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System Updates Stream

A few updates where due in the music stream so decided to update the Windows 2019 data center OS that hosts the music application Sam Broadcaster and the music stream relay OS on Linux Fedora that hosts IceCast and ShoutCast streams with the stunnel as well.

So far everything looks good and will be up in about 15 minutes if not sooner from the time of this post.

Back With The Strong Snakeice House of Beats Stream

As noted on https://dhoytt.com/mainblog/ I updated my dhoytt.com Linux web server, my Snakeice House of Beats W2019 Data Center music streaming server, my Linux IceCast and ShoutCast streaming servers with the latest security patches. I also updated several other backgrounds servers.

I also updated the CMS WordPress to the latest version along with the plugins and themes.

Added some new songs to the rotation and just letting the music ring out.

Updated W2019 Server Application Host and Linux Fedora Relay Host

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.

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!

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.