Leandrofiorenza
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Hello, how are you?. Well since early this year we moved the radio to another much larger city, to enable us. The problem was that moved the studios, but the FM transmitter plant remained in the city is 300 kilometers (186.41 miles), so the only option is to link via streaming 24 hours a 192k for no loss sound quality. For this we have a PC in the studies that we use RB for Music and other studies is responsible for receiving streaming (also through RB), sound processing, generate Stereo, RDS, check the connection speed Internet, etc..
Since we are linked by streaming the problems do not end ever!.
Here in the studies we have an internet connection great, never had a problem, but the weakness is the transmitter. In that city there is no really good Internet provider.
Furthermore consulted by a satellite link but is far from our budget.
So I was making all kinds of things for my radio silence is not in never (hence the change orders as requested buffer size which certainly cuts down a lot since then).
Recently in the PC transmitter implements a script that does the following:
1 - Check Internet Speed
2 - if the speed is less than "x" then opens with the following playlist Rb
Playlist:
Track 1 - streaming studies to 32 k
Track 2 - Aux track (if streaming does not work)
3 - if the speed is greater than "x" then opens with the following playlist RB
Track 1 - streaming studies to 192 k
Track 2 - Aux track (if streaming does not work)
A PC that's set up very carefully so that before a power is turned back on, and open all the programs and if the power goes out while turning never enter "System Restore" and so on.
I've done a great job to make things work always "OK" and this seems to be impossible.
My biggest weakness is the Internet connection in the city that the transmitter.
Since I have no change Internet providers, are all very bad!
The big problem is that streaming is issued, my problem is that sometimes the radio is silent.
I have fear of losing sponsors and audience.
This morning I received a message from the audience, wondering why on the radio did not hear anything. Quickly enter for remote access to PC transmitter. To my surprise I found that had been frozen RB loading buffer (the buffer was 25% and not moving) I returned to try to play streaming and it worked correctly. But this I decided to take the laptops and start making my own tests with RB streaming (disabling and enabling the plate to simulate a WiFi Internet outage) the idea was to see because it had been frozen RB loading buffer and because the detector silence did not work, and come to conclusions and discovered some very interesting things:
1 - When you load the buffer freezes Boss Radio (I think intentionally does not activate the detector of Silence)
That is very good, but I think audio ran out my radio why: radio boss was loading buffer and the Internet have been cut while the buffer is fills. and I am stuck forever waiting for it to fill the buffer. Then came the Internet but was not that buffer layers to keep filling up.
I think the solution would be:
If the percentage of buffer size does not change for example 10 seconds,
Change track. But it's good block the detector of silence, because if the load buffer that takes longer than required to fill the silence detector, will not play streaming.
2 - If the buffer is empty in the middle of streaming playback if there would be good if the silence detector is active, to avoid small cuts constantly.
3 - I tried also in case the Internet connection and the streaming server work but not this broadcast anything (bone when RB says service unavailable)
Then when I started to transmit on the same steraming and wanted to try again but despite playing now is running the straming, the program still says service unavailable.
To return to play that streaming is necessary to close and reopen RB.
But there is something I found very good and I emphasize this, I disconnected the Internet for 10 seconds, playing a stream and then reconnected and RB fails to connect instantly and continue to fill the buffer and not noticed anything, it seemed great.
I also want to note that the synchronization of metadata is very good! And this is very important to me because on the PC I get this metadata are then transferred to Stereo Tool and transmits this RDS format.
Thanks and sorry for the extension!
Since we are linked by streaming the problems do not end ever!.
Here in the studies we have an internet connection great, never had a problem, but the weakness is the transmitter. In that city there is no really good Internet provider.
Furthermore consulted by a satellite link but is far from our budget.
So I was making all kinds of things for my radio silence is not in never (hence the change orders as requested buffer size which certainly cuts down a lot since then).
Recently in the PC transmitter implements a script that does the following:
1 - Check Internet Speed
2 - if the speed is less than "x" then opens with the following playlist Rb
Playlist:
Track 1 - streaming studies to 32 k
Track 2 - Aux track (if streaming does not work)
3 - if the speed is greater than "x" then opens with the following playlist RB
Track 1 - streaming studies to 192 k
Track 2 - Aux track (if streaming does not work)
A PC that's set up very carefully so that before a power is turned back on, and open all the programs and if the power goes out while turning never enter "System Restore" and so on.
I've done a great job to make things work always "OK" and this seems to be impossible.
My biggest weakness is the Internet connection in the city that the transmitter.
Since I have no change Internet providers, are all very bad!
The big problem is that streaming is issued, my problem is that sometimes the radio is silent.
I have fear of losing sponsors and audience.
This morning I received a message from the audience, wondering why on the radio did not hear anything. Quickly enter for remote access to PC transmitter. To my surprise I found that had been frozen RB loading buffer (the buffer was 25% and not moving) I returned to try to play streaming and it worked correctly. But this I decided to take the laptops and start making my own tests with RB streaming (disabling and enabling the plate to simulate a WiFi Internet outage) the idea was to see because it had been frozen RB loading buffer and because the detector silence did not work, and come to conclusions and discovered some very interesting things:
1 - When you load the buffer freezes Boss Radio (I think intentionally does not activate the detector of Silence)
That is very good, but I think audio ran out my radio why: radio boss was loading buffer and the Internet have been cut while the buffer is fills. and I am stuck forever waiting for it to fill the buffer. Then came the Internet but was not that buffer layers to keep filling up.
I think the solution would be:
If the percentage of buffer size does not change for example 10 seconds,
Change track. But it's good block the detector of silence, because if the load buffer that takes longer than required to fill the silence detector, will not play streaming.
2 - If the buffer is empty in the middle of streaming playback if there would be good if the silence detector is active, to avoid small cuts constantly.
3 - I tried also in case the Internet connection and the streaming server work but not this broadcast anything (bone when RB says service unavailable)
Then when I started to transmit on the same steraming and wanted to try again but despite playing now is running the straming, the program still says service unavailable.
To return to play that streaming is necessary to close and reopen RB.
But there is something I found very good and I emphasize this, I disconnected the Internet for 10 seconds, playing a stream and then reconnected and RB fails to connect instantly and continue to fill the buffer and not noticed anything, it seemed great.
I also want to note that the synchronization of metadata is very good! And this is very important to me because on the PC I get this metadata are then transferred to Stereo Tool and transmits this RDS format.
Thanks and sorry for the extension!