Streaming WAV with Airtime.. ! - Airtime Support Discussions on Sourcefabric Forum

John Chewter

Has anyone tried this?
I have a very good commercial reason for it.

Daniel James

Hi John,

I don't recall hearing about anyone streaming WAV with Icecast. Apart from the waste of bandwidth, the limited metadata support in WAV is non-standard. You could use FLAC and turn it back to WAV at the other end:

http://archiv.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2010/hq-sound-streaming/

For streaming uncompressed PCM data over reliable networks to small numbers of devices, you could look at Netjack, but that's not intended for broadcast:

https://community.ardour.org/node/1634

See also the overview at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_over_Ethernet

Cheers!

Daniel

John Chewter

Hi Daniel. I am not using this for broadcast, but for in store musac machines. Using WAV or Local sound card would drop my cpu load by 30% - no encoding time out for Liquid Soap.

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