Would I be able to have a look to? I'm working on something similar for a
project for next year. But for now, I just need some temporary automation until
I go live with my Christmas episodes or shows or live streams or whatever the
case maybe at least on the main mountpoint.
> On Nov 28, 2014, at 07:56, Franco Solerio <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Mark, (in the morning!)
> I’ve been using liquidsoap for more than a year to manage the stream between
> the live shows of my podcast. You can have a look at my production script:
> apart from the online/offline functionality many of the features you need are
> implemented there and work very well (fade in/out on harbor connection,
> stingers immediately before the transition from playlist to jingle etc.). I’m
> sure you can find inspiration for your needs.
>
> Check it out here: https://gist.github.com/francosolerio/e624ba55c2a663ac6b1d
>
> Say hello to Adam on my behalf: he knows me from the times I hosted the
> RockCast Italia podcast and I’m responsible of him switching to Ableton Live
> for producing the show :)
>
> Have a nice weekend!
>
> Franco
> Il giorno 26 novembre 2014 @ 18:52:50, Mark van Dijk ([email protected]) ha
> scritto:
>
>> (I had to resend this. My domain's settings were too restrictive for
>> mailing list postings, so the previous email might have been rejected by
>> receiving hosts. This has been adjusted now.)
>>
>> Hello Liquidsoap users,
>>
>> My name is Mark, I'm the system administrator for the No Agenda podcast
>> and stream.
>>
>> Recently I have switched to Liquidsoap for our 24h stream. Our servers
>> are using Gentoo and Liquidsoap isn't easy to install, so for this
>> purpose I created a Docker container[1]. It works quite nicely.
>>
>> I am sharing the Liquidsoap code for our stream on Github[2], so you can
>> see how it currently is coded.
>>
>> I guess this type of stream is a bit unusual because the shows are long
>> (generally longer than 1h), and we don't play music from a playlist.
>>
>> The tl;dr of my problem: whenever there is an "event", the first thing
>> that should be played is the sweeper. I.e. when the host connects; when
>> he disconnects; between all shows from the playlist; when 'online'
>> starts and when 'offline' starts.
>>
>> A broader explanation:
>>
>> There is a live show two times a week. Outside those hours we play a
>> short list of various recorded podcasts.
>>
>> The idea is as follows and, for a part, I have been able to get it
>> to work.
>>
>> * The stream has two 'modes': offline and online. During 'offline' hours
>> we play a podcast playlist. We play a sweeper between every podcast.
>>
>> * The actual show is scheduled two times a week, i.e. on Sunday and
>> Thursday, starting at about 17:00h UTC until approx. 20:00h UTC.
>>
>> * 15 minutes before the show starts, the stream switches to 'elevator
>> music' which plays until 15 minutes after the show. This is the
>> 'online' mode.
>>
>> * The show host can connect at any time, so, both during online hours
>> and offline hours. So, if he wants to broadcast on e.g. a Wednesday,
>> he is able to connect and Liquidsoap patches him through.
>>
>> The reasons for the elevator music is to let people know that a show is
>> about to start, or that the show has already finished, or that there are
>> technical difficulties, i.e. if the host disconnects within the online
>> hours.
>>
>> On to my problem. What I would like is the following. When the stream
>> switches to offline or online, I want it to always start with a sweeper.
>> Only then, depending on the time, it should play the playlist (offline)
>> or the elevator music (online).
>>
>> When the host connects, his stream should immediately be broadcast, even
>> if he interrupts a running show from the offline playlist. It would also
>> be nice if this can be prefaced by the sweeper, but I haven't gotten
>> this to work, and I'm not sure about this feature yet, but I would like
>> to know how to get this into code.
>>
>> When the host disconnects during offline hours, you should hear the
>> sweeper, and then a show should start from the beginning. I got this to
>> work thanks to fallback.skip.
>>
>> When the host disconnects during online hours, i.e. between 16:45 and
>> 20:15, you should hear the sweeper, and then the elevator music. I
>> *think* I have this working too.
>>
>> But, right now, when the stream switches to offline or online at the
>> scheduled time, the sweeper is skipped. I think this is because of the
>> fallback.skip and I haven't found a way to get this working properly. I
>> guess that it shouldn't skip when 'switch' starts or ends but only when
>> the host disconnects.
>>
>> I'm hoping for advice, maybe someone who is interested to help can
>> review the code I have so far written. Liquidsoap is fairly new to me,
>> and I'm sure I'm not doing things in the best way possible.
>>
>> Thanks in advance. Liquidsoap is fantastic.
>> Mark
>>
>> [1] https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/noagenda/lqs/
>> [2] https://github.com/NoAgendaIT/noagendastream
>>
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