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We are happy to announce the release of our BoomBox shared hosting program which includes BoomBox stream hosting for life!

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As of the time of this writing (August 25, 2019) Centova Technologies Inc. (centova.com) has rolled out a premier support program which would charge SoniXCast in order to support their customers.  Therefore, the decision has been made to no longer offer any support for CentovaCast customers EXCEPT in the following scenarios:

In the event services do not start due to an error in provisioning…

We are happy to announce that this weekend (8/17 – 8/18, 2019) we will be incrementally (server-by-server) migrating and releasing BoomBox v3.5. This long awaited release is a complete departure from previous releases which is why the maintenance window is as long as it is.

Each account will be migrated and tested by the deployment team.This includes migration to the new data structure,…

We are happy to announce the following updates to BoomBox 3.4.295.07.23.2019:

The ShoutCast transcoder (sc_trans) has gone the way of the dinosaurs. ShoutCast (Radionomy) has not maintained the project for many years and its functionality has become unreliable at best.

The liquidsoap transcoder will completely replace the old sc_trans transcoder in BB 3.5. In the meantime however BoomBox…

We are happy to announce the release of BoomBox 3.4.295.7.12.19 which addresses reported customer issues.

Change Log:

Extracted station profile management from transcoder service management forms into its own form. This is in compliance of popularization regulations from partners Google, Apple and Amazon. Users can now edit the following under the Station Profile Editor (user circle icon in…

We are happy to announce that we have release patch 3.4.295.7.10.2019 which addresses reported customer issues among those being consolidation of the media folders, repair of the global music library access as well as numerous performance and UI enhancements.

BoomBox is now in continuous build mode which means software patches and upgrades will be released daily until version 3.5 has been…

We are happy to announce the release of BoomBox v3.4.295. This release addresses many issues reported by customers as well as a complete customization of the underlying codebase in preparation for movement of the system into the global cloud.

This release also include several UI changes making BoomBox more compliant with accessibility and usage standards, bettering overall performance in the…

New SBN (Relay, Redirect)

We are happy to announce the release of the new SoniXCast Broadcast Network (SBN) v.1.0.256. We have completely remove the dependency on the icecast codebase to proxy connections and released (in conjunction) the final version of SoniXCast Media Server (SXMS) v.5.3.

Features

Enhanced popularization.Near real time directory push to 3rd party aggregators and white label partners (u.a. Apple,…

Relay & Redirect Links

We have rebuilt the SoniXCast Broadcast Network (SBN) Relays (listen.sonixcast.com, tunein.sonixcast.com, relay.sonixcast.com) and Redirects (stream.sonixcast.com) url (link) allocation to comply with the new licensing compliance standards.

Now both relay and redirects correspond with an actual physical license which can be directly queried by licensing organizations and other 3rd parties…

BoomBox v3.4 Software Patches

The most recent patches for BoomBox Control Panel v3.4:

Simplified Dashboard page (removed redundant controls)

Repaired Server Settings Editor (now saves stream authorization hash from shoutcast.com)

Repaired Transcoder (AutoDJ) Settings Editor (now applies and restarts liquidsoap settings correctly)

The most recent patches to the relay network v3.4:

All worldwide nodes have been rolled into…

BoomBox 3.4 Rollout Complete.

We are happy to announce the completion of the BoomBox v3.4 infrastructure rollout. As with any major infrastructure release, not everything went as smoothly as we had hoped and we apologize to those who experienced any issues during the changeover.

What was done…

One of the main reasons for the infrastructure rollout was to de-couple SoniXCast’s dependance on a single provider who was…

Updated Rollout BoomBox 3.4

We’ve run into some unforeseen issues while rolling out BoomBox 3.4 and have revised the rollout plan as follows:

CDN: The global content delivery network has been updated to version 3.4 and is functioning normally.

Relay: The global relay network has been updated to version 3.4 and is functioning normally.

SoniXFM:has been updated to version 3.4, however the public facing website is still…

We wish to apologize to all retail customers who have experienced delayed support responses over the last 30 days. Due to an unfortunate series of events, human resources at SoniXCast have been strained to the limit on issues of exceptionally high priority and have only been able to rotate to retail customer issues during overtime hours.

In short, we were hit with a compliance audit of our…

BoomBox Periodic Events Update

We’ve recently released a software update to BoomBox which addresses the challenges some customers are having scheduling and executing periodic playlists like spots and news blasts.

The issue, as reported by Support, concerns confusion when prioritizing periodic playlists which complicates triggering at the times expected by the customer.

Currently BoomBox mimics playlist scheduling…

Customers on BB35 (BoomBox) have been experiencing higher than usual loads due to a recent addition of the ABC Radio Network to the SoniXFM platform which has introduced SoniXCast Radios to an additional 4 million potential daily listeners.

BB35 is one of the last servers on the legacy hardware platform and is having a hard time keeping up with the additional network traffic which is…

Wow! BoomBox Upgraded to ShoutCast Server 2.6!

Howdy Folks! We’re happy to announce that BoomBox has been upgraded to ShoutCast Server 2.6 (more info) which resolves issues, with the authorization hash, aacp encoding, targetspot and more…

Customers on the BoomBox platform will have to completely restart their server to take advantage of the new features. The easiest way to do this is to login to your BoomBox control panel and press the…