Hello, folks I've already asked this question on the forum [1], but both solutions are not optimal. Is it possible to make streams between mpd and icecast persistent? I.e. even when player paused or stopped, can it generate null samples with specified bitrate to keep clients connected? The only time when it can stop feeding to icecast is when corresponding output get disabled.
I do some programmatic playlist rotation and when particular playlist is finished (and before next one will be loaded), player goes to stop state and drops connection to icecast, forcing all listeners to disconnect. Capturing output from hardware soundcard is not an option anymore (I moved my setup to hosted server and plus I need to run several mpd instances), and liquidsoap eats too much processing power with unnecessary transcoding. Also I tried pulseaudio, gstreamer and jack by using them as intermediate layer and found no way to solve this problem. They all stop their output as soon as input is gone. [1] http://www.musicpd.org/forum/index.php?topic=2013.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Musicpd-dev-team mailing list Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team
