Icecast - Jul 2006 - Web Based scheduler like LiveSupport for icecast

You might like my project called tunequeue, though it might be overkill or
too much effort to install.  It does provide a web interface to ices and
allows fairly complex scheduling.  It is perl with a mysql backend.
http://tunequeue.sf.net

-Aaron


On 7/4/06, oDDskOOL <oddskool@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I think what you want can be (easily ;) ) built around Ices, using perl
> or Python.
>
> I do something very similar with a simple perl script and ices. Ices can
> use a perl script as playlist, that's to say the script will be
executed
> each time a track ends and ices is looking for the next one.
>
> So if you can write your demand on disk (with a simple CGI for example),
> the perl script can read it and play the track. Otherwise, you can do
> like i'm doing : read a playlist file from perl script (which file
based
> on the system's clock) and select a track from it at random.
>
> For controling icecast, you can use signals (SIGHUP rereads playlist,
> SIGUSR1 goes to next track, ...) via a CGI ? (i'm not sure signals from
> CGIs is always possible).
>
> For simple authentication, .htpasswd will do.
>
>
>
> Cristian Alvarado wrote:
> > I've been scouring the web for a web based scheduler for use with
> > icecast.  Here is what I'm looking for:
> >
> > I want to be able to say "at X time, Y file/playlist will
play"
> > I want to be able to control icecast from the web
> > I want to be able to lock control of this site with some form of
> > authentication
> > Preferably PHP, but ruby/rails would be good too.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
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* On Wed 2006-Jul-05 00:29:45 -0400, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe@gmail.com>
wrote:
> You might like my project called tunequeue, though it might be overkill or
> too much effort to install.  It does provide a web interface to ices and
> allows fairly complex scheduling.  It is perl with a mysql backend.
> http://tunequeue.sf.net
  Thanks for the tip!  I don't know about the other guy, but I
definitely think this is something _I_ want to use.  :)
  One question, though...have you experimented with live-feed break-ins?
In other words, set the station to do whatever it does 24/7, but then
you want to be able to suspend the "static content" at any time and
connect with a live stream, then kill the live stream and the static
content picks right back up.  I've been looking for something that would
make this easy; I'd pretty much resigned myself to having to create one
myself from scratch (thus re-inventing the wheel for the 50th time...).

-- 
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I've thought about it briefly (I'm in the same boat as you, but I've
been tinkering with making my own interface) and I more or less came to 
the conclusion that it was more complicated than it was worth, for me at 
least. For my purposes having spoken content recorded beforehand, 
uploaded, added to the playlist and played back a couple hours later was 
good enough.

What you might be able to do is set up two streams, one live and one off 
your playlist, each being a fallback for the other. Kill the live stream 
and dump listeners over to the live feed and when you're done 
broadcasting live you can turn the playlist back on, kill your live feed 
and dump everyone back. I'm not sure if this is feasible or not, I just 
remember thinking about it. I might have read about this approach around 
here, who knows.

Chris

John Buttery wrote:
> * On Wed 2006-Jul-05 00:29:45 -0400, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe@gmail.com>
wrote:
>   
>> You might like my project called tunequeue, though it might be overkill
or
>> too much effort to install.  It does provide a web interface to ices
and
>> allows fairly complex scheduling.  It is perl with a mysql backend.
>> http://tunequeue.sf.net
>>     
>
>   Thanks for the tip!  I don't know about the other guy, but I
> definitely think this is something _I_ want to use.  :)
>   One question, though...have you experimented with live-feed break-ins?
> In other words, set the station to do whatever it does 24/7, but then
> you want to be able to suspend the "static content" at any time
and
> connect with a live stream, then kill the live stream and the static
> content picks right back up.  I've been looking for something that
would
> make this easy; I'd pretty much resigned myself to having to create one
> myself from scratch (thus re-inventing the wheel for the 50th time...).
>
>