On 01/28/2013 12:29 PM, Dan MacDonald wrote: You may want to check out airtime: http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/ - it's a kitchen sink solution and may be more than what you want or need. As for skype & jack, you can use the alsa loopback device or alsa-jack plugin to bridge non-jack clients - incl skype - to jack. With icecast and darkice are your friend but be aware that there's a lot of details for a proper radio station.. so long, robin

2013/1/28 Len Ovens <len(a)ovenwerks.net> IDJC is good. BTW you need a loopback device in order to use skype with it but that's not a big deal. It has basic signal flow function and configuration is quite straightforward, I've used it with icecast and shoutcast, really nice. IMHO Mixxx is not really there at the moment -r -- *L'unica speranza di catarsi, ammesso che ne esista una, resta affidata all'istinto di ribellione, alla rivolta non isterilita in progetti, alla protesta violenta e viscerale. (V. Evangelisti) *

On Monday 28 January 2013 06:29:30 Dan MacDonald wrote: Get to know the Rivendell folks. IRC #rivendell on freenode http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.paravelsystems.com/ I use darkice and icecast2 here. Have seen people suggesting liquidsoap in place of darkice iirc. all the best, drew

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:01:01 +0000 Dan MacDonald <allcoms(a)gmail.com> wrote: I know that Airtime uses Liquidsoap to provide the stream to icecast or whatever that part of their chain is; I also know that Liquidsoap supports jack quite nicely so you should have no problem. -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh(a)brainiac.com Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa

On Mon, January 28, 2013 9:01 am, Dan MacDonald wrote: The only comparison I can make is IDJC and an analog station (CBC Northern services). IDJC does pretty much what any analog setup for one control room might do. Because the audio is all Jack, it would be quite possible to have one computer running an ijdc as an on-air control room and switch other computers with their own IDJC instance in and out (using netjack)... It seemed to be that on-air control would do music and spots, but switch to another studio for news or interview type shows (if they were live, most would be prerecorded). It could just as easy go to a transmitter as a codec to Inet. Where we had cart machine and turntables for music, spots and prerecorded shows, these have files. The files can be precoded as mp3, ogg, flac or whatever, but IDJC decodes them to audio for mixing anyway so flac or wav files would mean the audio output could be broadcast quality and there should be no problem with using files head to head of different file type or sample rate... At any one time you might have as many as 4 different file streams being mixed together (not practical or likely, just possible). I have not tried pulling in anything direct from CD or a bank of CD machines. Most desktops show the songs on an audio CD as wav files though, so it should be possible... I have noticed that it sometimes seems to take a while for the DE to get to the point of showing the wav files, but if they are put in far enough ahead of use it should be fine. Most computers can handle 3 or 4 CD/DVD players these days.... I would stick to two though, as I have seen opening one drive stop the other from playing while it opens if they are both on the same IDE cable. IDJC just deals with the audio path, it does not deal with the admin at all. Some of the other software does I think (Rivendell?). -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net

On Mon, January 28, 2013 9:01 am, Dan MacDonald wrote: Airtime has no internal method of broadcasting live audio. It broadcasts prerecorded or will accept an icecast input stream. It actually recommends either IDJC or mixxx to generate live streams (reading through the docs) to input to airtime. It does do admin stuff though and will stream files. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net

Hi Len + list! Great to hear liquidsoap supports JACK! I think we'll be trying Airtime first and should that not work out we'll give Rivendell a shot. I'm aware of teamspeak and I'd rather not support the MS/Skype voip virtual monopoly but in my experience Skype (under Linux) is much more reliable and fully featured than any other voip solution and it is of course what people know and have installed already. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Len Ovens <len(a)ovenwerks.net> wrote: