Announcement before the music starts

[Cybernews]

Hi All,

I want to have a song playing, like a little message, before the station actually starts. And I know there is a function in the SHOUTcast server, but it doesn’t work with me. I have read everything what I could find, but still I can’t get the thing to work.

What I’ve done is this. I made a song called ‘start80.mp3’. And I’m transmitting at 80kbps, the same bit rate as the song. I defined my location properly;

code:
‘C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Mijn documenten\start%d.mp3’

Does anyone know why the stream starts immediately, and the whole start-song is being skipped.

I appreciate everybody’s help!
Thanks.

Sincerely,
Robin.

[Nick@ss]

Have you uncommented the intro line in the config?

post the intro part so we can look.

[Cybernews]

code:
; IntroFile can specify a mp3 file that will be streamed to listeners right

; when they connect before they hear the live stream.

; Note that the intro file MUST be the same samplerate/channels as the 

; live stream in order for this to work properly. Although bitrate CAN

; vary, you can use '%d' to specify the bitrate in the filename

; (i.e. C:\intro%d.mp3 would be C:\intro64.mp3 if you are casting at 64kbps).

; The default is no IntroFile

; IntroFile=C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Mijn documenten\start%d.mp3

That's my intro file, Nick.

Sincerely,
Robin.

[Nick@ss]

Remove the semi colon ( from the start of the line

; IntroFile=C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Mijn documenten\start%d.mp3

should be

IntroFile=C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Mijn documenten\start%d.mp3

that is how you enable functions in the config.

make sure the intro is EXACTLY the same bitrate frequency and channel as the stream or you will have issues.