Liquidsoap

Website	http://liquidsoap.info/
License	GPL
OS	GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows
Media	Streaming media
Format	OGG, MP3
Interface	Custom programming language
Wikipedia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Liquidsoap
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Sound processing

liquidsoap can be used to process / filter sound either in a streaming pipeline, or used "offline" to directly produce an audio output (file).

See https://www.liquidsoap.info/doc-1.4.2/reference.html#source-sound-processing

Links / Projects / Radio streams that use liquidsoap

• Data Radio. Here a script created a day and night playlist, with a "fallback" to allow a live stream to interrupt.

playlist

playlist source

mode (of type string, which defaults to "randomize"): Play the files in the playlist either in the order (“normal” mode), or shuffle the playlist each time it is loaded, and play it in this order for a whole round (“randomize” mode), or pick a random file in the playlist each time (“random” mode).

say_metadata

say_metadata filter

outputs

Basic outputs of interest:

• out which is the shortcut for output.preferred: play to the soundcard directly (if possible)
• output.file: play to a file
• output.icecast Send audio to an icecast server