Hi there,

One of my clients who has a Shoutcast hosting service with myself is having an issue with Centova where the Auto DJ is not restarting after his presenter disconnects, looking at the logs I can see:

Error during send: Libshout reported send error, disconnecting: Socket error
Error during send: Mount failed on http://5.39.12.190:9998/stream, error: Socket error
Error during send: Mount failed on http://5.39.12.190:9998/stream, error: Socket error
Error during send: Mount failed on http://5.39.12.190:9998/stream, error: Socket error
Error during send: Mount failed on http://5.39.12.190:9998/stream, error: Socket error
Error during send: Mount failed on http://5.39.12.190:9998/stream, error: Socket error
Error during send: Mount failed on http://5.39.12.190:9998/stream, error: Socket error
Error during send: Mount failed on http://5.39.12.190:9998/stream, error: Socket error
Error during send: Mount failed on http://5.39.12.190:9998/stream, error: Socket error
Error during send: Mount failed on http://5.39.12.190:9998/stream, error: Socket error
Too many stream errors, giving up

Is there a way of changing this behaviour so it will keep trying to connect (or even waits a few seconds then tries)?

Yes same :

After update only problems. Till now we was realy happy with centova. But this problems after update is just a mess.

Centova Cast WILL attempt to restart your autoDJ more than once. It's going to try and restart it every 5 minutes and it will only stop doing so if it fails to restart 3 times within a 30 minutes period. (you can check your Centova Cast's Event Log to confirm that it did indeed attempt to do this at least 3 times)


What's most important here is finding why Ices (the autoDJ) fails to start.

Unfortunately, as ices is a third-party software product, there is not a lot we can directly do about this aside from providing instructions to troubleshoot the problem.

Usually Ices crashes are the result of the use of bad MP3s, however, a full set of troubleshooting instructions are available at:
https://secure.centova.com/pages/faqs/display/troubleshooting_ices_problems_84