Broadcast Delay

[Action Radio 90.9]

Radio boss is pushing 3 feeds out to the internet. However when i listen back to all three feeds they are delayed by 7 minutes. its always at least two songs behind what the studio is playing. I know for a fact it's not the internet service that's causing the issue. the machine is only using 40% of its CPU processing. any other ideas would really help. if i can get this down 15-30 seconds that would be awesome.

 

[djsoft]

7 minutes is way too much. Why are you sure that it's not an internet service you're using? It may have huge buffer setting (so it buffers 7 minutes of data) - new listeners start to listen the radio at start of the buffer - 7 minutes away...
RadioBOSS can't control this - it just sends the data to broadcasting server during playback. In the RadioBOSS->Server path data is delayed only by a fraction of second - the time required to transfer data to server.
Usually, delay when using Shoutcast/Icecast with default settings is about 10-30 seconds.

 

[Action Radio 90.9]

that's what puzzling me too because everythings is at the default settings.

 

[djsoft]

that's what puzzling me too because everythings is at the default settings.

Is it your own server, or you're using some 3rd party solution? Im' pretty sure it's something wrong with broadcasting server setup...

 

[Action Radio 90.9]

i am pushing the feed from a quad ore dell computer with 4 gigs ram. machine sitting on a gigabit network. one machine is running shoutcast server. the other two is external servers. all three is 7 minutes delay.

 

[djsoft]

The computer is not an issue, your configuration is more than enough to run the stream.

I think you should check the server delay: install any player which can play URLs on the machine where you have Shoutcast server running. Then listen to your station using local address, like 127.0.0.1:8000.
If there's no delay (I mean, no 7 minute delay, the delay under 30 seconds is "no delay") - then it's something on the listener-server path.
If there is dalay - there's something wrong with Shoutcast server config.

 

[Action Radio 90.9]

i am getting the 7 minute delay on shoutcast server side also.

 

[djsoft]

Can you send me the shoutcast server config file? (.conf).

 

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