I've done similar with LiquidSoap in the past. See http://www.dlineradio.co.uk/articles/stls-and-raspberry-pis/ for details.
Written originally for the Pi but should work on most Debian based systems. Adding some on silence actions might do the trick for you. Sent from my iPhone > On 28 Jan 2015, at 16:05, drew Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think I have seen discussions around these topics in the past. I am hoping > someone is up to date on these skills so that I don't have to spend further > hours or days trying to get this to work smoothly. > > What I want to do: > > config a small box (I hope to use a Raspberry Pi but will scale up until I > find one with the needed power to serve in this capacity) such that when it > is plugged into a network and amp/speakers somewhere it will connect to an > icecast stream automatically and play it out of the speakers. > > It will detect silence in the stream (including the stream going down) and > switch to playing (a playlist of) locally stored files. > > It will detect when the stream audio comes back and cut out the local audio > and go back to stream audio. > > All headless and automatic. > > I am trying to get this system going now on a laptop with a bit more power > than the Pi. > > I am trying to use: > > jack > silentjack (to detect the silence) > jack_connect (to change the jack routing on setup and on command from > silentjack) > > audio players: > > mplayer (or its frontends) > vlc > others? > > Does this sound like a reasonable set of components for this job? Has anyone > done something similar? Are there any good docs in this space? > > Problems I think I need to solve: > > A way to "statically name" the main stream player so that I can refer to it > in scripts. > I may not have to statically name the backup player but it would probably be > nice. > > So far, I am not seeing how to do that with mplayer or vlc, the names seem to > be tied to the pid. > > Is there a better way to go about this? > > If it hasn't already been done, I will write this all up when I am done. > > all the best, > > drew > > -- > http://nakedghosts.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
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