URGENT: Possible Metadata Freeze Issue in Streaming Relay (RadioBOSS Cloud)

[aprizion]

Over the past few days, I’ve been noticing a possible bug related to metadata reception in streaming relays.

What happens is that, in many cases, the metadata gets stuck/frozen and does not update. It only changes or refreshes after I manually reconnect the stream in RadioBOSS Cloud.

All the streams we relay are highly stable and run 24/7 without interruption.

I tested reducing the auto-reconnect interval to every 4 hours, but the issue still continues to occur.

We currently have more than 20 stations on the platform, and from what I’ve identified so far, this is happening with servers: c5, c13, and c38.

 

[djsoft]

All servers are identical, I don't think there could be any difference because the same software is installed everywhere. Maybe you have different Icecast versions selected in Settings > Advanced?

Regarding the metadata issue, can you please specify where it's stuck exactly? Do you stream live to RadioBOSS (streaming to /live mountpoint) and RadioBOSS Cloud does not show the updated title?

 

[aprizion]

Icecast version is always the same, never changed, keeping the default while started a new server - RFM 64

The scenario that doesn't works as expected, but just for some stations mentioned here (and started a few weeks ago), it uses this workflow:

- I add a icy stream to relay audio+metadata
- after some hours metadata stops to be recognized (freeze/it keeps static in the last metadata)
- I restart manually (run the event where icy stream was added), metadata is refreshed

This doesn't happen when I stream live to RadioBoss cloud and also this is happening with a few number of stations (2 from 20+ that I have in the radioboss cloud).

There are several stations using the same setup and this is not happening. Maybe it's a source glitch requesting periodically handshake? For this reason I schedule the stream event relay to run every 1 hour which doesn't hurt the setup but before do that the stream relay worked fine running 24/7.

Thanks.

 

[djsoft]

When you relay other stream RadioBOSS Cloud reads metadata from the stream, if it's there, it will be shown. Are you sure the stream is not faulty? If you open the control panel, what streaming title do you see in the Nowplaying section?