For Streaming, I'm a fan of Icecast (server), liveice or darkice
(encoder, capture), and ogg (codecs). I also know that darkice now has a
GUI called darksnow, but have never used it.
Free Radio Burlington used this system while it was active. They ran
XMMS/XMMS-shell as the client and relayed the audio stream from the
studio over the net to a computer hooked into the transmitter and it
worked OK. Latency issues always crept up, and using it over a wifi link
was sometimes a bit of a problem, so the servers had to restart every 3
days or so. This was of course, for live streaming and didn't
communicate metadata about stream content.
If you had an automated system w/playlists, I imagine it could work
just fine, you could use the player of your choice, route the output
audio from the player to the encoder input with jack and stream over
icecast while updating that metadata content to the libre.fm site. there
are probably other simpler ways to do that as well...
hth
-andy
Rion D'Luz wrote:
Auspicious day to light the cigars:)
i'm using pandora, have last.fm installed and read a
/root/Info/Sys/Sound/Last.fm_Music_Service.pdf file
tho i don't listen to music as much as i once did, i've always wanted to do a
community radio project (LPFM/X.25).
building a Linux_Multimedia_Studio, scrounging up cheap iron (h/w, D->A cards,
xmitter(s) ect...
But i was thinking of using Icecast, http://www.icecast.org/ as i really
respect the Xiph.Org Foundation
and it appears very powerful. Could libre.fm be used on top of or in
conjunction with that (do you think?)
Rion
-Tom
