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I'm starting on a bit of a long term project (for myself) to implement dead air detection with an icecast stream. Basically at the location where we have icecast implemented it's a radio studio and it'll be good if we have the system automatically detect if the dj output is dead. To which I am firstly posting on here to find out if anyone's already implemented such a system and

I?ve successfully implemented IceCast on a Raspberry Pi and can access the stream ONLY if I use an ffmpeg statement to start the stream. Unfortunately, the stream is choppy and the sound quality is poor. I?ve tried using ICES, but I don?t get any sound. Terminal command that works: ffmpeg -ac 2 -f alsa -i hw:0,0 -acodec mp3 -ab 48k -ac 2 -content_type audio/mpeg -f mp3 icecast://source:password