Linux and icecast, and well. . . . fallbacks :S
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Linux and icecast, and well. . . . fallbacks :S
hi everyone.
I have spent ages setting up a website, and when i say ages, i mean a good 4 months making this thing, and my boss has said were not allowed it. Anyway. . . . . end storey is. I didnt sign over my radio station so im taking it back,so this means i have to find myself a new server. . . . well it just so happens on our dj's is running a linux server, i believe is Fedora Core.
Well, bassically, what i want to do is set it up to work with sam2 broadcaster and have the server set up for a fallback stream when the primary source is lost but when it comes back, then all listeners are put back on the main stream. is there any tutorail for this? also the server will be on a tiny 1mb internet connection, so also some way of unicast or somthing along those lines would be cool.
anyone got any ideas?
thanks in advance
Michael Hunt
I have spent ages setting up a website, and when i say ages, i mean a good 4 months making this thing, and my boss has said were not allowed it. Anyway. . . . . end storey is. I didnt sign over my radio station so im taking it back,so this means i have to find myself a new server. . . . well it just so happens on our dj's is running a linux server, i believe is Fedora Core.
Well, bassically, what i want to do is set it up to work with sam2 broadcaster and have the server set up for a fallback stream when the primary source is lost but when it comes back, then all listeners are put back on the main stream. is there any tutorail for this? also the server will be on a tiny 1mb internet connection, so also some way of unicast or somthing along those lines would be cool.
anyone got any ideas?
thanks in advance
Michael Hunt
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Michael Hunt is confusing unicast and multicast. Unicast means one listener per stream. Multicast means multiple listeners per stream.
Multicast only works on a particular ip range, so that it stays within an intranet (basically). I don't know of any audio streamer that can do multicast, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
Multicast only works on a particular ip range, so that it stays within an intranet (basically). I don't know of any audio streamer that can do multicast, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
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well the problem truely is multicast is not available to everyone on the internet. So in effect, you would be cutting out audience if you went that route.
Windows Media Server is capable of multicast and I believe there are a couple of clone shoutcast servers that do it as well, but it has no real way of catching on due to the limited availability of multicast on the internet.
Windows Media Server is capable of multicast and I believe there are a couple of clone shoutcast servers that do it as well, but it has no real way of catching on due to the limited availability of multicast on the internet.
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