Sat, 12 Sep 2009

Repair note to self

A recent update to a number of packages broke the festival wrapper for swift. Festival also ceased to work. A quick Google search brought up this fix from navaburo, who'd gotten it from the now non-existant Gentoo Howto for speechd. Just in case the Ubuntu forum post goes away, the repair amounts to executing the following: printf ";use ALSA\n(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)\n(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command \"aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r \$SR \$FILE\")\n" > .festivalrc joat: 20:40:59 12 Sep 2009

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Sat, 03 Jan 2009

Icecast relay

Figured out how to run Icecast in single-broadcast relay mode, leeching live audio off of Spark's server and distributing off of mine. I'm wondering how obnoxious of a set up we can get if we run slaved mode... In any case, the single-broadcast relay is quite simple. Just uncomment/edit the example included in the default icecast.xml and point it at your icecast source of choice. No additional configuration is needed for the source. joat: 05:44:06 3 Jan 2009

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Thu, 01 Jan 2009

Ices and PulseAudio

Contrary to what Burkhard over at Truth or lies has stated, PulseAudio play nicely with Ices and Icecast. Creating a special entry in .asound is not required. Just use the OSS module for Ices. my notes and a config file are in the wiki. joat: 04:14:12 1 Jan 2009

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Mon, 15 Dec 2008

Liquidsoap daemon script

Savonet/LiquidSoap tends to be Ubuntu-specific (for now). Building it on other systems requires a bit of work. I've put a Fedora 10 startup script for LiquidSoap in the wiki. joat: 06:12:14 15 Dec 2008

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Sat, 06 Dec 2008

Liq + Icecast error

(Mostly for my own records) If you receive the following error, try explicitly declaring the username on both ends (Icecast and the Liquidsoap script). 2008/12/06 09:50:33 [threads:1] thread "root" aborts with exception Shout.No_connect ! 2008/12/06 09:50:33 [main:3] Shutdown started! 2008/12/06 09:50:33 [threads:3] thread "non-blocking queue #1" exited (1 remaining) Thread 4 killed on uncaught exception Shout.No_connect joat: 10:12:27 6 Dec 2008

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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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