Hi Marcin,

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Marcin Lewandowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know that it's more fun in designing such fancy things as content-type,
> but in my opinion it's far away from professionalism.

I'm sorry to hear that liquidsoap wasn't stable enough for you. You're
right that I am more interested in bringing innovation than delivering
professional-stable software. Although this is a correct judgment,
it's not a fair one. I never pretended that stability is my top
priority. I don't make any business off that, nobody pays me for a
promise of stability. Despite this, I'm putting a lot of time on
building that software, lots of which goes to fixing boring bugs,
helping users and writing doc.

Note that the stability of ALSA is 100% independent of the "fancy"
part of liquidsoap. If somebody has enough interest in this (because
they like it or because they can make money from it), I'd welcome a
contribution.

> I wonder how many users will use that feature.

I wonder how many people use liquidsoap at all, actually :) But
seriously, let me insist that this new feature is useful even to
"normal" radios. We've had cases of people complaining about how
liquidsoap converts mono to stereo, and some company wanted to have
dolby-to-stereo conversion in liquidsoap. This wasn't doable in a
modular way before, now it's just a matter of writing a simple
operator.

> If you want to have it used in professional environments, concentrate at
> stability, good testing, integration with high-level interfaces to
> interoperate with rest of the system, and dynamic configuration reloading.
> [...]
> Needless to say that I cannot do fadeout after switching from input.http.

I have called for discussions on interoperability several times, but
haven't seen any good proposal. In the meantime, people keep using the
server as it is, and it works. I have also commented many times on the
common request for dynamic reloading. Finally, we have also explained
the very good reasons why you cannot crossfade on an input.http (with
liquidsoap or any other tool). Note that fadeout is no problem, I
assume you meant crossfade.

But there's not much point arguing about this. You're disappointed
about our priorities. Too bad. We're both sorry about that. Best
wishes to you and your radio, I hope you find a solution that works
well and easily.
-- 
David

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