Caching the files is the ideal way to handle this. I do it myself. How much
storage space do you think you need? Generally speaking extra storage is
pretty affordable.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Audiodef Online <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Romain,
>
> I actually thought of that, but what I really want to do is create
> streams by genre. I think a good way to deal with slow downloads might
> be to have a fallback playlist instead of a fallback single, where the
> fallback playlist is a small collection of local (and thus infallible)
> files.
>
> I could do a fallback playlist, right? How do I do that?
>
> Thanks,
> Damien
>
> On 09/27/11 23:21, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > 2011/9/24 Audiodef Online <[email protected]>:
> >> I'm in the process of setting up radio streams via liquidsoap that use
> >> playlists consisting entirely of remote files. I could use some advice
> >> on a particular point.
> >>
> >> There's one site with a lot of music that I would like to add to my
> >> streams, but unfortunately will have to pass, because this site has a
> >> lot of large files (which is not a show-stopper) and appears to have a
> >> slow connection (large files PLUS slow connection... not so keen on
> >> that). Files are downloaded at an average of 30 KB/sec from this site. I
> >> have FIOS, so I know it's not my connection that's slow.
> >>
> >> I'm wondering where I should put my cutoff. Obviously, it should be
> >> above 30 KB/sec. This is really slow. Should I make it 100 KB/sec? 500?
> >> 1 MB/sec? This will help me later when I allow community members to
> >> recommend new material for the radio streams, at which point I mosey
> >> over to the recommendation and see how fast the connection is on that
> site.
> > I have no real idea about the numbers here.. However, have you though
> > about mixing streams? You could have a slow stream, playing files
> > downloaded from the slow site, mixed with a fast stream, which would
> > take over while the slow stream gets ready..
> >
> > Romain
> >
>
>
>
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