We're pleased to announce the release of RSAS 0.1.17! Rocket Streaming Audio Server (RSAS) is a high-performance webserver designed for broadcasting live audio through the web, with low latency and high listener capacity.
This release adds a new Metadata History API, Icecast-compatible status page (optional), customizable error pages, and more.
Get RSAS 0.1.17 today from our downloads page.
Metadata History API
A new JSON API is available that provides the last 10 received metadata updates, which can be used to display recently played tracks. Previously, developers had to build their own server-side play history solution, but now RSAS saves you time by having this built-in.
Visit /mount/metadata-history on your RSAS server to test it out, or read the Metadata History API docs for more information.
Read about more about the Metadata History API in the documentation.
Customizable Error Pages
RSAS now displays user-friendly error pages, which can be customized. Templates for the error pages are now bundled with RSAS for Windows and in our DEB/RPM packages.
Read more about the new customizable Error Page Templates in the docs.
Improved Source Behaviour
RSAS will now retain listeners for up to 10 seconds after a source disconnects, to allow sources to reconnect and resume broadcasting to those listeners. This also applies to relays.
Icecast-compatible Status Page
An optional Icecast-compatible Status Page and JSON endpoint (/status-json.xsl) can now be enabled. Some web-based player
widgets and other services designed for Icecast get stream metadata by trying to scrape the JSON endpoint, and this
update makes RSAS compatible with those players and services.
The Icecast-compatible status page can be enabled on Linux by adding the following to your config file:
<emulation>
<icecast-status-page>1</icecast-status-page>
</emulation>
On Windows, the Icecast-compatible Status Page can be enable via the Configuration screen.
Read more about the Icecast-compatible Status Page in the docs.
Other Changes in RSAS 0.1.17
Here's a list of other changes in this release:
- Performance improvements
- TLS certificate errors are now non-fatal on service reload.
- Various relay and fallback bugfixes, including:
- Fallback override now works with relays, allowing listeners to be moved back from a fallback mount to a relay if it reconnects.
- Improved relay reconnection logic
- Bitrate/channels/samplerate info is now shown in
/healthfor relays.
- Improved logging, especially related to relays and fallbacks, to aid troubleshooting.
- Authentication options (
<option>) can now be removed during config reloads. - Added CORS headers to all error responses.
- Improved compatibility when relaying from AIS and Shoutcast 2.5.5
- Added a DEB package for Ubuntu 16.04
- Added experimental FreeBSD 12 package
What's next?
We're planning to implement persistent relays (non-on-demand) next and are experimenting with some ideas for <alias> mounts.
We're still pushing towards support for HLS and hope to ship at least experimental HLS support soon.
Looking for other features? RSAS development is driven by your feedback, so get in touch and let us know how we can help your online audio streaming.