Can Airtime tune in a Stream - Airtime Support Discussions on Sourcefabric Forum

Theador Hair

I am looking very seriously at getting airtime for my station. The one question I have is can airtime tune into a stream on schedule. I have DJ's who stream to a separate stream and my host computer tunes in that stream at scheduled time so they can play their own music from their own home/studio. Can air time do this?

Albert FR

@Rick+Munday:+1

that's really mandatory for a lot of us (or our non-geek animators ;)

Albert FR

Hi,

Yes and no

You can use a backup stream from airtime's icecast
But you can't schedule it for the moment
normally this feature come with the 2.2 (in 2/3 months)

But if it's really a priority for you, you can help sourcefabric with http://fundry.com/project/147-airtime, and they do that quickly ;)

Frédéric Perrod

Hi,
I've tried to do this directly in liquidsoap script using "switch" for scheduling and "input.http" to catch an external stream.
This works fine except I get a log full of lines telling me there is a problem of delay with this source (2 or 3 lines per second...). I've tried with a couple of mp3 or ogg streams with the same results. But with a stream generated from radionomy, no problem.

If you need the right syntax, I'll see in my script to tell you.

Fred

Albert FR

Yes Fréderic, but you can't schedule them into airtime, but it is the way to do for now ;)

Frédéric Perrod

Right: atcually not possible directly in airtime.

By the way, is there a solution not to get all those "error" msg in the log while catching an external stream?
I've tried to play with "input.http" arguments (i.e "buffer" and "max") without results.

Thanks,

Albert FR

put you log in a file here

Frédéric Perrod

Here is the interesting part of the log corresponding to the external stream caught by "input.http":

2011/12/11 23:21:52 [src_4815:3] Decoding...
2011/12/11 23:21:53 [src_4815:3] New metadata chunk: ? -- .
2011/12/11 23:21:53 [server:3] New client: localhost.localdomain
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.01s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:57 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.
2011/12/11 23:21:58 [src_4815:3] Buffer overrun: Dropping 0.05s.

10 lines like these per second, this makes quickly big log files...

Martin Konecny

Hi, We currently plan to officially support this in the future. Here is a ticket:

http://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/CC-1665

Albert FR

As say "mister" log, your buffer is to stretch, and your processor (seems to slow, but i can't be sure)
in your ls_script change the size of your buffer.
and retry ;)

Theador Hair

Excelent. I just donated $20 to the project. As soon as it's done I'm buying a licence.

Albert FR

thanks to you ;)

Theador Hair

Not seeing much movement in the bug tracker. Any news?

Rick Munday · Post edited by Rick Munday at 2012-02-17 14:54:35

This is a *got* to have for a lot of community stations.

A third of our shows are picked up from a stream. So the ability to add streams to the playlist/schedule is important.

The streams we pick up now are controlled via PAL script, if they fail then music get's loaded and after one song it attempts pickup again, after 10 fails it locks to music until the next scheduled event. This could go well with a random song option/tag in playlists.

Theador Hair

What would it take to fast track this? How much. Be honest.

Theador Hair

Clearly you all are not taking this seriously. I think you underestimate how important this issue is and how quickly something like this can put airtime heads above the rest. There is nothing like it out there and as far as I can see you are the closest. It is the next logical step to a social media based playlist generation and it's where I want to take my station. What will it take to get this done?

Rick Munday · Post edited by Rick Munday at 2013-05-16 20:52:10

It works as of 2.2...

Albert FR

now with 2.3 an the next 2.4 you can do that with master/show sources...

that post is really old...

Rick Munday

Yep, I asked a question and then found what I was doing wrong, so I kind of changed the post to say it did work.

Albert FR

lol

you can mark this thread as solved, then ;-)

Rick Munday

^:)^

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