Relay fallback suggestion
Suggesting increasing or providing customization options for the default 10 seconds fallback to AutoDJ time when a Live365 station is running from a relay source. Currently, if the relay streams silence for 10 seconds, the source will fall back to AutoDJ which is not ideal in my use case.
It would be ideal to have the option to customize the time it takes for a silent relay source to cause a fallback on the AutoDJ source.
The relay reconnection time once the source gets out of silence should also be configurable. Currently, it can take up to 2 minutes to retry the connection.
Comments: 4
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27 Oct, '21
Ionut Sarghi Admin"Add a 5 second initial retry to the relay software" (suggested by Mike K on 2021-10-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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10 Jul, '22
Mike KAt a minimum, reducing the 2 minute wait before trying to re-connect would be very helpful. The default should be more like try to reconnect every 5 seconds.
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05 Oct, '22
Mike KIt is an absolutely trivial software change to reduce the default retry time to 5 seconds instead of 2 minutes. For 2 minutes, listeners hear whatever song is playing on the Live365 AutoDJ, and then in the middle of that song, it switches back to the relay.
If anything, why not send an email to the handful of customers using the relay feature and ask them whether a 2-minute delay before trying to reconnect is something they desire? Please consider making the simple software change to reduce the delay as soon as possible. -
01 May, '23
MKThe most important aspect of this "design flaw fix request" is to allow us to reduce the hard-coded 2 minute delay before trying to reconnect to the source (whether the disconnect occurred from silence or from a network drop event). The default should be more like 5 seconds and not 2 minutes!
Btw, adding support for "HLS streams for ingest" would mostly eliminate these unprofessional sounding 2 minute outages. The main advantage of HLS audio streaming is that it "provides a mechanism for players to seamlessly reconnect and download missed audio, so that a short loss of connectivity or bandwidth will not disrupt playback". It's the ideal technology for relays.