Fri, 22 Aug 2008

Frustration

Why is it that finding info on streaming from a pipe to Ogg is easy, while the same info, involving MP3 streams, is a pain in the butt to track down? joat: 23:25:22 22 Aug 2008

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Thu, 03 Jul 2008

SqueezeCenter

I'm not sure when it happened but Slimserver has become SqueezeCenter. More or less the same features, a new skin for the interface. I've added notes to the wiki on reconfiguring SqueezeCenter to use your MySQL service (vice the extra one that comes with SqueezeCenter). joat: 09:10:18 3 Jul 2008

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Fri, 02 Nov 2007

A web interface for LiquidSoap

I'm writing a web front-end to Liquidsoap, a scripting language that easily builds and transmits audio streams (live or from files) to Icecast and Shoutcast servers or to local hardware. The script is basically a juke box for the various network-enabled audio devices in my house. I'm keeping development notes (and the code) in the wiki for anyone that wants to follow along. joat: 21:47:06 2 Nov 2007

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Mon, 15 Oct 2007

Hak5 bumpers

Note to all: if you're going to use any of the Hak5 bumpers, it may be worth the time to edit the ID3 tags if you're doing anything like using them in a playlist. joat: 22:35:38 15 Oct 2007

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Fri, 12 Oct 2007

LiquidSoap web interface

I think I have the telnet interface to LiquidSoap figured out and have a simple web interface to it coded up. I'll post the code once I've got it cleaned up and add a few more functions to it. joat: 05:36:06 12 Oct 2007

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Wed, 10 Oct 2007

NSLU2 Icecast Server

I've got an Icecast server set up on a Linksys NSLU2 server so I can experiment with various audio tools without annoying the Hak5Radio bunch. I've stuck the notes for "installing OpenWRT on the NSLU2" and "Icecast on the NSLU2" in the wiki. joat: 05:38:38 10 Oct 2007

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Sun, 07 Oct 2007

NSLU2 Audio Redo?

I moved the NSLU2 back next to the computer because it wasn't seeing much use in the bedroom. It also lets me continue to crash the desktop without having to worry about losing the audio stream. I'm currently working on a demo to show off LiquidSoap (yeah, I tend to fixate on new tools) to the local users' group. Problem is that I'll need to use the current NSLU2 (with the audio interface) and another with Icecast running on it. I running the risk of more people (at the meeting) being fascinated with the NSLU2's than the LS scripts I'm trying to show off. (Notes will be in the wiki shortly.) joat: 14:51:25 7 Oct 2007

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Wed, 03 Oct 2007

Liquidsoap update

I'm starting to think that LiquidSoap is to audio as Perl is to text. I had a bit of fun annoying the extremely early morning listeners on Hak5Radio with misc. Creative Commons music, while reading up on some of the syntax. In addition to being able to stream to Ice/Shout/Peercast servers, it can also stream directly to your hardware (i.e., your soundcard). I can attest that chaining Sky.FM-->SlimServer-->LiquidSoap-as-a-player works very nicely. Even the metadata being passed across from Sky.FM is handled properly, and neither processor got below 95% idle on the dual core, even with all of the other crap I run on the box (SageTV, fetchmail, etc.). That's saying a lot as it appears that both Slimserver and (possibly) LiquidSoap are doing a bit of transcoding on the fly. The one drawback to this so far is SlimServer's built-in delay (5 or so seconds). I'll need to read up on that. It's obvious that simulcasting (rebroadcasting/redirecting) a stream is going to be simple. I need to play with the mixing features now (think "periodic jingles" mixed into an open conference call). If I can come up with an interface to Asterisk, you can consider me as having thrown IDJC in the round file. Oh! If anyone's interested (and for my own notes), the syntax is liquidsoap 'out(input.http("http://192.168.1.175:9000/stream.mp3"))' joat: 11:56:28 3 Oct 2007

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