Shoutcast 2 plays wrong playlist after transcoder restart

[musicradiostatio]

I am running my radio with shoutcast 2. I have organiszed a 24 hour schedule, every 2 hours a new music playlist with priority 2. Every 15 minutes i have several station jingles (abou 5 - 10 seconds) in seperate playlists (only one mp3 for one playlist). They come with a priority 6. There is no Intro file and no playlist set with time periode "128".

All works fine but if I restart the transcoder then there will be played first all jingles from the last 30-60 minutes before. The stream starts with 1, 2 or 3 Jingles first before the actual playlist will be played. Even if I deactivate these actual jingles from the last 60 minutes, then there will be played other jingles from any time periodes before.

I am very puzzeled about this. There is no visable mistake and if the radiostream is active all jingles and music playlists will be plpayed perfectly in a running order. I have this problem only after a restart of transcoder and radio stream.

[alfabravo14]

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Looks like you are using Centova ?

[musicradiostatio]

No, it's not Centova. Do you have any idea why this is happening? Even if you have no solution it would be helpful to understand the problem, so I could do more research.

[alfabravo14]

Ok

In Centova after i made changes (order,new additions) to playlists
while the stream is running ... it happens that
after i made the changes it starts to play from the top of the lists ...
even while it was halfway...or it starts with stationcalls and other playlist
that it thinks that have not been played while it should have been.
ie: its like it tries to make up for what it thinks that has not been played while it should.

Dont know if that is a bug or not a bug (in the vision of the developer)
and if that is caused by shoutcast or centova.

I´m not shure if your whole station only consists of "transcoder" only
if there´s more modules (auto-dj ?)...you could try to restart those also.

Thats all i know...not an expert.

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[musicradiostatio]

Originally Posted by alfabravo14

Ok

In Centova after i made changes (order,new additions) to playlists
while the stream is running ... it happens that
after i made the changes it starts to play from the top of the lists ...
even while it was halfway...or it starts with stationcalls and other playlist
that it thinks that have not been played while it should have been.
ie: its like it tries to make up for what it thinks that has not been played while it should.

Dont know if that is a bug or not a bug (in the vision of the developer)
and if that is caused by shoutcast or centova.

I´m not shure if your whole station only consists of "transcoder" only
if there´s more modules (auto-dj ?)...you could try to restart those also.

Thats all i know...not an expert.

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Thanks for the statement.

I have complete access to sc_serv.conf and sc_trans.conf (autoDJ) on own server. So there is no difference in restart complete radio stream or auto DJ. Both restarts are generating the problem.

[DrO]

the transcoder does not keep a track of where it was playing when it is then restarted. so if it's not set to shuffle, it's going to restart from the beginning.

musicradiostatio: are the jingles referenced in the 'main' playlist? as there are cases where that will be played before any timed events will be run when it starts which could be causing the issue you're seeing.

[musicradiostatio]

Originally Posted by DrO

the transcoder does not keep a track of where it was playing when it is then restarted. so if it's not set to shuffle, it's going to restart from the beginning.

musicradiostatio: are the jingles referenced in the 'main' playlist? as there are cases where that will be played before any timed events will be run when it starts which could be causing the issue you're seeing.

The jingles (stationcalls) arn't referenced in a main playlist. Every station call has its own playlist to a special time. The playlist (mainly in shuffle) doesn't cointain jingles and station calls.

[alfabravo14]

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The "shuffle" (called "random" in Centova)
sucks in at least Centova which controls/uses Shoutcast.

I no longer use that...cause it causes playlist set to "random"
to not play at all...tracks are simply skipped.

I have tested that extensively...by ripping back my own stream
continiously for many months...so i have a whole folder full with mp3´s that were played
the ripper adds a timestamp also....all the mp3´s that are in "random" playlists
dont appear in that folder...and i did not hear them being played.

Cant tell you if that is a bug in Shoutcast or Centova
i bet they (one or the other) know about it...but never mention it
Most stations are not serious and dont check it like i do...so they dont complain.

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[musicradiostatio]

Originally Posted by alfabravo14

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The "shuffle" (called "random" in Centova)
sucks in at least Centova which controls/uses Shoutcast.

I no longer use that...cause it causes playlist set to "random"
to not play at all...tracks are simply skipped.

I have tested that extensively...by ripping back my own stream
continiously for many months...so i have a whole folder full with mp3´s that were played
the ripper adds a timestamp also....all the mp3´s that are in "random" playlists
dont appear in that folder...and i did not hear them being played.

Cant tell you if that is a bug in Shoutcast or Centova
i bet they (one or the other) know about it...but never mention it
Most stations are not serious and dont check it like i do...so they dont complain.

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I don't use Centova. I use TekBase. I cannot confirm that my playlists will be played random. Only some playlists (not more than 3 in a row) with very short content (less than about 5 minutes down to some seconds and with only one mp3 file) will be played after a restart!