Broadcasters: fix for those getting stuck on "Getting Playlist"

Question

Hello!
My buddies and I launched recently a Webradio and we wanted to be listed on iTunes Radio Directory. We submitted our infos to [email protected] and we got listed.
The problem was that nobody could listen to us: while playing the radio there was a "Getting Playlist" ("Récupération de la liste de lecture" in french) hanging and nothing else.
We fixed this by changing our icecast 2 mount point from /radio.mp3 to /radio and submit back the adress to itunesradio for an update (it better to submit an .m3u link)
Tadam ! It worked ! I guess itunes were confused by the .mp3, expecting a MP3 header and getting a http one.
I did not see any solution for this problem so... let's share!
Greetings from Bora Bora

Answer 1

At least tidy up that horrible nested method. Try this:
public synchronized boolean last() {
   try {
      if (!(jdbc instanceof MRxJDBC)) {
         debug("last()", "", "The MRXJDBC as not been instantiated.", "");               
         return false;
      if (!(jdbc.getConnection() instanceof java.sql.Connection)) {
         debug("last()", "", "No sql connection", "");               
         return false;
      if (jdbc.getConnection().isClosed()) {
         debug("last()", "", "The connection is not open", "");               
         return false;
      if (!(resultSet instanceof ResultSet)) {
         debug("last()", "", "No results returned.", "");               
         return false;
      if (!resultSet.last()) {
         debug("last()", "", "No records returned.", "");               
         return false;
      assign();
      debug("last()", "Record "+resultSet.getRow()+" of "+count+" returned.", "", "");               
      return true;
   } catch (Exception ex) {
      debug("last()", "", ex.toString(), "");               
      return false;
}What is "MRXJDBC" and are you sure it doesn't do pooling? Are you absolutely certain that the jdbc connection you pass in is the same as the jdbc field that you access in the above code?