Installing Icecast 2 on CentOS 5
I had to do this today so I’m posting a howto mainly for my own reference. Icecast isn’t included in the CentOS yum repos. So to install it you need to build it from source. First you’ll need to...
View ArticleClustering Icecast2 with fallback streams
I’m undergoing a project at the moment to setup servers in key geographic locations around the world to better deliver an Icecast stream when compared to the existing single server in Canada. Icecast...
View ArticleServer Clustering
I was looking at the costing of my Internet hosting a few weeks ago and decided I’m paying too much. I have a couple dedicated servers in a few locations, mostly at iWeb. For the purpose of this blog...
View ArticleRunning Icecast on port 80
Running Icecast on port 80 is a good idea so that users behind corporate firewalls can still access your Icecast feed as you are not directing them to use non-standard ports. However its not that easy...
View ArticleMy drama with Virtual Machines
Well I was really hoping to migrate from iWeb this month but unfortunately Jumba don’t have any virtual machines. I called them this morning and they told me they’d take new accounts in mid September....
View ArticleAdding robots.txt to Icecast
I noticed today that my Icecast servers are getting hit by Google quite regularly. Strange because there isn’t really any indexable content. So today I added a robots.txt to Icecast in...
View ArticleBrowser detection with PHP’s get_browser()
I had to make a small web page to play the Internet stream for the radio station this week. We’ve had alot of issues in the past with users of Internet Explorer having poor quality playback. This is...
View ArticleEPG in Google Calendar?
I did some more work for the radio station today. I’ve implemented what I’d like to call EPG or Electronic Program Guide in their Internet stream. Icecast supports metadata in MP3 & AAC+ streams so...
View ArticleHTML5 and Icecast
Well with my works recently on a new web based player for the radio station that detects the visitors web browser and directs them to a suitable play head, I decided I could probably expand this with...
View ArticleObscure Windows
I do a lot of Windows installations that are quite obscure which for me at least gives merit to Windows being a highly adaptable operating system capable of many tasks it was never designed for. I’ve...
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