Got another release of radio finished, this is a small bugfix and slight change to give better user feedback based around Geo-Blocked stations. The problem with Dynamic and empty methodmaps is now fixed and added source to package Cached the console variables “sm_radio_play_type” and “sm_radio_shoutcast_custom” in OnConfigsExecuted() This avoids conflicts or crashes with the way … Read more
Finished the updates to the PHP scrips and database changes. One small addition, stations that have a chance to be geo-blocked will now be marked with “(*)” before the station name in the auto-generated playlists. Tomorrow, will release a small addition to Radio that fixes the custom genres methodmaps problem, nothing major at all. Just … Read more
Going to be implementing a few more changes to the MySQL code and structure within the PHP script. Long term, This will avoid duplicate entries with stations and have a much better structure inside the database. Task will take me around 2+ weeks to implement with how the database is right now and require lots … Read more
Update took a little longer than I expected with all the problems the ShoutCast API was giving me yesterday, but managed to get around to releasing the latest version. Update notes can be found below, please make sure to read documentation on the new “sm_radio_force_download” command specifically. Changelog: Bug Fix: Problem with Dynamic and trying … Read more
Managed to get the updates to the ShoutCast web-end finished. It actually ended up taking slightly longer than I expected, with how problematic the ShoutCast API was being and returning 404’s for playlists URL’s that was valid. The solution I came up with was increasing the query retry delay to 10s from 3s, which appears … Read more
Currently working on a few changes to the ShoutCast downloaded playlists that hopefully everyone will like. Radio will have a new internal cVar called “sm_radio_shoutcast_playlist” that will decided which playlist to download and utilize, for now there will be 3 types: 1 = Standard genres with child genres – Version right now 2 = Genres … Read more
Got some good news that Radio 2 is finally ready for the final release, meaning the beta test stage is over with how stable the plugin feels now. Still have to work out how to some things in PHP but the radio.dubbeh.net is fine to use right now. This is mostly related to the track … Read more
Nginx should be working fine for http and https now. The error returning was “The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port” which was caused from having the 80 and 443 ports in the same server block, under the Nginx config. Had to assign the standard HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) ports to a seperate … Read more
Going to push another update later today for the website side of the player. This should hopefully fix all mount points, especially related to Icecast 2 streams (Didn’t need to have the “/;” appended to the stream). Only took a very simple piece of code, but would love any feedback for stations that don’t work … Read more
Another update for today xD. Finally managed to get the webserver backend up and running on Nginx, from Apache2. The site responsivness has increased drastically and internal server resource usage has decreased around 50%. Wanted to get this finished earlier, but didn’t really have the free time with work recently, especially on Radio, then the … Read more