Re: internet radio and linux!

["S. Massy" <theanaloguekid tak net dhis org>]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, brent harding wrote:

> I found it before, but it seems like just a server to carry the content
> from some client. What I need is an interface to autoselect and play the
> content to the live365 server in linux that does what I need it to do. When
> I installed icecast it just appears to be a daemon that needs something to
> connect to it, how can I control it without knowing the length of the song
You said you're using Debian? Icecast comes in two packages, the
server and the client (or feeder). You should install
"icecast-client", I _THINK_ it'll let you do what you want.
> so if I put play commands in the shell script it doesn't start every song
> in the list at the same time? That's what I get with an sblive. I use the
> alsa drivers, and it won't let two mp3's overlap in to one another, when I
> play the second one, it makes a big pause when it cuts the first one off,
> how do I fix that?
Hm, what mp3 player are you using? Ever considered feeding your mp3
player via STDIN? It would let you play songs one after the other
without having to worry about what's going on...
> At 03:06 PM 6/30/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Take a look at icecast.  I don't have the url off-hand, but you should be
> >able to get it by searching http://www.freshmeat.net.
> >
> >I haven't used this program personally, but it may do what you want.
> >
> >--Michael Gorse, WPI Cs '01 / ICQ:22583968 / http://www.wpi.edu/~mgorse/ --
> >     If you're an oister, then don't let your perl get away from you.
> >
> >On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, brent harding wrote:
> >
> >> 				Is there any easy to use program that allows one to send streaming
> >> audio over the internet in linux? I'm tired of those hard to use graphical
> >> programs in windows that don't really do what I'd like. I want a program
> >> that works good with speakup. Also, I want it to allow me to specify times
> >> to play certain things over the stream. I want it to not pause so long
> >> between songs. I would also like to be able to record shows at certain
> >> times from the internet, either from media player streams, realaudio, or
> >> mp3-shoutcast streams. I was thinking of a script that would play a song,
> >> sleep for a few seconds less than the duration of the song and continue
> >> playing the next songs. I don't really know how to do stuff like that
> >> though, especially when the time stuff comes in to specify to cut off
> >> what's playing, or wait until it's done and play it. It'd be too hard to
> >> play every song and time it to see how long it lasts to subtract a few
> >> seconds to make the script, but harder still to remember the times to write
> >> scripts to play it in the future. I find that if I do play commands one
> >> after another, with my sblive sound card, I hear the songs all played at
> >> once, I really don't want that. What program does this type of thing that's
> >> speech friendly debian linux 2.2? I found a radio program, called radio,
> >> but it deceived me, it was for controlling radio tuner cards, not what I
> >> had in mind. I found icecast, but there's not much of an interface to it to
> >> do much with, windblows is needed to connect to it to feed the stream in,
> >> and I'll have to relay it to a free net station provider called
> >> live365.com, so I'm limited pretty much to streaming mp3. Is there an easy
> >> way to put live content in the stream, like you can in windows? Is it
> >> possible to make it record from the mike and mp3 source at the same time,
> >> so I don't have to edit config files and reboot every time I want to
> >> switch, or get the annoying click when you do it?
> >>  
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