System Maintenance Sat., Nov. 10, 9pm PST (Nov. 11, 5am GMT) [Completed]

[NC version upgrade completed on all servers]

Live365 is upgrading all stations to a new version of Nanocaster, v2.7.0.36, starting today and culminating in a forced restart at 9pm on Saturday, 10 Nov 2007 (5am GMT, Sunday, Nov. 11) of any  stations still running on the previous version. There will be a brief outage for each station and its listeners during the restart. To minimize the  possible disruption for LIVE mode broadcasters, we suggest that you restart your station at your earliest convenience, particularly if you are running 3rd party broadcasting software that needs to have an IP address manually entered (e.g. Shoutcast), as it is possible that your IP:port  assignment will change during the restart. If you are running Studio365-Live, any address reassignment will be handled for you automatically.

When the upgrade is complete, all listeners will be able to connect to Live365 streams on port 80. This is the standard port assigned for web traffic and almost anywhere you can access a web page, you will now be able to access our audio streams without interference from high-port blocking firewalls or misconfigured security software. Over time, we expect that most stations will  experience an increase in listenership as fewer users run into technical  problems connecting to our streams.

Note to LIVE broadcasters: even though the outbound listening connections will now be on port 80, the inbound master audio feeds will continue to reside on high ports (i.e. 20,000+) on our streaming servers, just as before. If you  are broadcasting LIVE successfully today, you will not want to make any changes to your firewall configurations; if you are new to LIVE broadcasting, you will want to be sure your network settings allow outbound connections to Live365 on high ports.

For more up-to-the-minute info, please check the Live365 Network and Technical Help forum.