Well, somehow I managed to make the Artisan Radio website inaccessible to users, including myself. You can still stream, and access the SDR, but get a 401 error when attempting to access the site itself.
I was mucking with the website, shared a directory, and it apparently mucked up IIS security. When I figure out how to fix it, I'll publish yet another Do Not Do This.
This was an interesting problem, obviously a cascading security effect from sharing a folder. I'm not even sure how anonymous IIS access was working in the first place.
For those who are running their own streaming server, and using IIS, here is the fix. You have to change the Anonymous Authentication (by right clicking on Authentication within IIS Manager, and choosing Edit) from IUSR to Application Pool. I didn't even have IUSR (for anonymous access) set up and yet it still worked until sharing that folder obviously reset a few things.
Anyway, everything is now back to normal and the website is up.
I also noted while testing the website that the IceCast directory appears to be down (Artisan Radio didn't show up) and when I attempted to look at other entries, it displayed pretty much a mess. Hopefully it will get fixed in the near future.
Confirmed.
Artisan Radio website is back up, but when I didn't see the Blog I noticed something else...
OpenWebRXplus+
I was actually able to listen straight from the SDR located in the Artisan equipment rack, and was able to de-tune it.
I liked it very much and if I was normal I would listen a lot. But of course as another webcaster I have a station to which I'm enslaved. It is a glorious achievement!
Technical Tip for Artisan FM Signal.
I hear strong smearing/splashing on sibilance.
Peaks can be seen in red on the waterfall which overshoot the outer boundaries of the signal envelope.
I've noticed that, particularly with the Oompah Hour. It's not the transmitter, as the overmodulation light only goes on very intermittently, if at all.
All the random playlist songs and the shows DJ'ed by us are normalized, and should not have those problems. I haven't noticed them by listening, in any event. It's the externally produced shows that haven't been remixed (they're normalized as well) that seem to be the issue, and I'm going to have to do something about that. It's kind of neat that the SDR is also showing the issues up, and not just listening.
There's also one OTR show that also appears to have that problem.
I'll start by normalizing everything that hasn't been previously. If the issue still persists, probably with the microphone vocals, I might have to do some more audio processing on the original files.
The sibilance is definitely due to clipping in the original recordings, and I've normalized the ones for tomorrow. We'll see if that improves things - it should.
I'm wondering if some of the artifacts showing up in the SDR waterfall are because the receiver is so close to the transmitter, and it's overloading in the front end. The RTL-SDR is known for that. As I stated, the transmitter is not over modulating, and the sound for the normalized audio tracks is good in the car.
I may try moving the server and receiver further away.
Another thing that comes to mind...
75uS DeEmphasis in the FM receiver of the SDR needs to be turned on.
It is set to 75 uS.