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Roland Latour
Sep 13, 2012, 3:12:19 PM9/13/12
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For heavy duty audio streaming, the big boys use icecast. But my reading of
its documentation indicates it isn't for the faint of heart. Its purpose as
I understand it is to take a single audio stream provided by some front-end
and use it to provide multiple audio streams over the (local) net.
I have discovered a lightweight and simple way to do that:
streamripper $URL -r -R 0 -s --quiet &
Then multiple users could listen to http://host-ip:8000 as a relay of $URL.
This is great for people with limited upstream bandwidth.
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So now I am looking for frontends to generate $URL in the above example.
I could install and learn liquidsoap. But I was wondering if there is a way
to do this thru Clementine via (maybe) GStreamer? Liquidsoap and Clementine
can both handle playlists, but are they cross-compatible? Here is where it
gets confusing. The audio layers, the links between them, and the terminology
are a twisty maze.
Has anyone done something like this? Can anyone give any hints? Thanks.
Mint13 w/XFCE on sda, planning to put Slack14 on sdb. My philosphy here is
that one computer should serve another, but never attempt to control it.
its documentation indicates it isn't for the faint of heart. Its purpose as
I understand it is to take a single audio stream provided by some front-end
and use it to provide multiple audio streams over the (local) net.
I have discovered a lightweight and simple way to do that:
streamripper $URL -r -R 0 -s --quiet &
Then multiple users could listen to http://host-ip:8000 as a relay of $URL.
This is great for people with limited upstream bandwidth.
==========================================================================
So now I am looking for frontends to generate $URL in the above example.
I could install and learn liquidsoap. But I was wondering if there is a way
to do this thru Clementine via (maybe) GStreamer? Liquidsoap and Clementine
can both handle playlists, but are they cross-compatible? Here is where it
gets confusing. The audio layers, the links between them, and the terminology
are a twisty maze.
Has anyone done something like this? Can anyone give any hints? Thanks.
Mint13 w/XFCE on sda, planning to put Slack14 on sdb. My philosphy here is
that one computer should serve another, but never attempt to control it.
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