[LAU] "ducking" software

[andy baxter]

Josh Lawrence wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A friend of mine just sent me this email.  I'm drawing a blank, so I
> thought I would throw it to the list and see what happens:
>
> --[begin email
>
> He is hosting a shoutcast server with music he's streaming.  He
> wants to duck his streaming media every 30 seconds and play a
> prerecorded file from a directory (think hold music with commercials
> playing every 30 seconds).
>
> You have any ideas in mind?  Do you know of any software that will do this?
>   

In theory you could do it using jackd, with icecast streaming from jack 
and have a script that connected and disconnected the appropriate player 
programs. But I'm not sure how stable this would be on a system like this.

andy