Thanks for the heads up that will be useful for our backup recorder which is a straight 24/7 recording. The -m will be used for dj shows. On 22 Jan 2016 20:55, "Yuri D'Elia" <wav...@thregr.org> wrote:
> On 22/01/16 21:43, Stuart Downton wrote: > > Ok great stuff. > > > > Looks like it can work really well for us as it keeps trying to > > reconnect to the stream to record it which was the main reason why we > > have looked at it. Currently we just use wget to record and it just > > stops recording if the feed drops for any reason. > > I've had more than a few people telling me they're recording their own > stream this way. It's surprising to me that icecast doesn't have such a > feature built-in. > > Note that in this case I could suggest a better approach using > rotatelogs from the "apache2-utils" package: > > fPls -v -i1m -T1s -L-1 [pls url] -p | rotatelogs /path/to/file 3600 > > See the manpage of rotatelogs(1) to customize the rotation strategy. > But basically, in this setup you ask fIcy to just dump the output, which > is piped to rotatelogs. rotatelogs will write a new file according to > either time (1 hour) or size strategy. > > Done this way, the stream will never be disconnected/interrupted as you > would do with -M, while *still* reconnecting correctly if the stream > drops for any reason. > > > >
