I decided to make a few shell scripts that can be used to connect to
icecast, decode/reencode a stream, and then send the result back to icecast.
I guess this can be done with liveice, but this seemed like a simpler
solution for my needs. I have it triggered by a cgi script that i click on
when at work and want to listen to my tunes at a lower, more reliable
bitrate.
There are basically three scripts:
reencode.sh: main start/stop script. ala rc.d style
receive.sh: connects to icecast server stream, pipes to lame, and
pipes to fifo file
send.sh: reads data from fifo and sends back to icecast
server
The only dependencies are a fairly new version of lame (with mpg123 lib
decode ability) and
nc (netcat).
I've only been using this a day or so, so its probably not perfect, but it
very easy to get running and turn on and off.
Cheers.
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On Sunday, 24 June 2001 at 22:24, Jack Moffitt wrote:> > I decided to make a few shell scripts that can be used to connect to > > icecast, decode/reencode a stream, and then send the result back to icecast. > > > > I guess this can be done with liveice, but this seemed like a simpler > > solution for my needs. I have it triggered by a cgi script that i click on > > when at work and want to listen to my tunes at a lower, more reliable > > bitrate. > > I often plug these kinds of scripts on IRC, and jwz has made his own > available that power dnalounge.com. You can find them at: > > http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/ > > Choice is always good. > > Brendan, weren't you thinking of adding this to ices :)I was, and then I did. :) It's in CVS now. I'm doing some cleanup over the next few days and expect to have a "development" version ready by the end of next week. It's changed too much to be released as 0.1.1, both in terms of new features and lack of testing... For the curious, here's the stuff I've done so far: * Reencode the same playlist at different bitrates/sample frequencies/channels simultaneously for different mountpoints. Just add multiple stream sections to the config file or use multiple -m options on the command line. * Read vorbis files and reencode them as MP3 - if you've got the CPU, you don't have to wait for your listeners to catch up, you can start storing your music as vorbis now. ices even parses vorbis comments for title streaming. * Proper FIFO handling - including reencoding. The only thing you lack (obviously) is ID3 parsing. * A new function for the playlists, get_metadata, which lets playlists set the title stream for each track if, say, you have better information in a database than in your ID3s. Also you no longer are required to define any functions but get_next. * If ices receives SIGUSR1 it will skip to the next track in the playlist. * Build system improvements. * A man page. :) Future plans include sending different streams to different servers (not just different mountpoints), and handling PCM/WAV input... -Brendan --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
> I decided to make a few shell scripts that can be used to connect to > icecast, decode/reencode a stream, and then send the result back to icecast. > > I guess this can be done with liveice, but this seemed like a simpler > solution for my needs. I have it triggered by a cgi script that i click on > when at work and want to listen to my tunes at a lower, more reliable > bitrate.I often plug these kinds of scripts on IRC, and jwz has made his own available that power dnalounge.com. You can find them at: http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/ Choice is always good. Brendan, weren't you thinking of adding this to ices :) jack. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.