I am using multiple squeezeboxen as a sort of whole-house audio setup. I am trying to configure the ability to add home-automation announcements to the system, temporarily interrupting play. For example, when a phone call comes in, it should temporarily suspend the music and announce it, then resume the music.
I have started to do this by using a java app that talks to the command-line interface, saves off the current playlist, points the player to a generic announcement MP3 file, plays it, then resumes the playlist. I am triggering the java app with Girder, a program which basically hooks up to windows events and stuff. I could also use other things to start the java app to do the interrupt. Does this make sense to anyone as an approach? What would be better is if I could point the player, instead of to an MP3, to an actual live MP3 stream coming from my PC sound card. In this way, I could get actual specific announcements generated by text-to-speech to play through the stereo. However, I can't seem to figure out a simple way to get a live MP3 stream running off my sound card without setting up a whole streaming server. Any pointers there? Thanks in advance... Will -- willmeyer _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
