Is there a package for Internet radio broadcasting?

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Is there a software package built into AV Linux that will connect to a stream and do a radio broadcast?

[varpa]

Though I have not used it myself there is a well-developed package for radio broadcast on Linux called Rivendell:  http://www.rivendellaudio.org/.  I do not see it in synaptic, but I bet it would not be hard to build on AVLinux.

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I was just looking at that package yesterday. I think I might give it the ol' college try and see how it turns out. Thanks for the input.

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Oh yeah, one more thing. I am going to start a podcast called Hair's To The 80's and it is my goal to do the whole thing with AV Linux using my trusty FirePod and AT2020. If any of you want to check it out: http://www.HairsToThe80s.com/

[calimerox]

I m not sure if i remember right, but i think the dj software mixxx is capable to send a stream to an icecast server, you have to configure it a little bit and then it works real stable..

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Thank you, cali. If Rivendell doesn't cut the mustard, I'll give mixxx a shot.

[GMaq]

Hi,

Not sure if you saw this or not but there is a repository here for Rivendell if you'd like to add it instead of trying to compile the packages: http://debian.tryphon.eu/?utm_campaign=rivendell-2.1.2

I may actually consider adding the repo or perhaps even Rivendell itself to the next version of AV Linux, so if you get it up and running I'd be very interested in what you think of it.

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Repository = awesome! I will try it that way first and report back.

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Here's what I've done so far: (The two lines in red are MY notes!)

allen@avlinux:~$ su
root@avlinux:/home/allen# apt-get update (This instruction was not on that page after repository key)
<snip out all the update info>
W: Conflicting distribution: http://debian.tryphon.eu stable Release (expected stable but got squeeze)
root@avlinux:/home/allen# apt-get install rivendell
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libhpi libqt3-mt-mysql librivendell
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libhpi libqt3-mt-mysql librivendell rivendell
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 122 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,038 kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://debian.tryphon.eu/ stable/main libhpi i386 4.04.07-1squeeze1 [32.1 kB]
Get:2 http://debian.tryphon.eu/ stable/main librivendell i386 2.1.2-2 [1,373 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main libqt3-mt-mysql i386 3:3.3.8b-7+b1 [50.4 kB]
Get:4 http://debian.tryphon.eu/ stable/main rivendell i386 2.1.2-2 [2,582 kB]
Fetched 4,038 kB in 9s (424 kB/s)                                             
Selecting previously deselected package libhpi.
(Reading database ... 203705 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libhpi (from .../libhpi_4.04.07-1squeeze1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libqt3-mt-mysql.
Unpacking libqt3-mt-mysql (from .../libqt3-mt-mysql_3%3a3.3.8b-7+b1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package librivendell.
Unpacking librivendell (from .../librivendell_2.1.2-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package rivendell.
Unpacking rivendell (from .../rivendell_2.1.2-2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Setting up libhpi (4.04.07-1squeeze1) ...
Setting up libqt3-mt-mysql (3:3.3.8b-7+b1) ...
Setting up librivendell (2.1.2-2) ...
Setting up rivendell (2.1.2-2) ...
Adding group `rivendell' (GID 112) ...
Done.
No AudioOwner found into /etc/rd.conf. See documentation and /usr/share/doc/rivendell/examples/. (Huh?)
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

root@avlinux:/home/allen#

I will try to run this later tonight as soon as I figure out where the executable is.

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Not having any luck when I try running the command "rdairplay" from the command prompt. I am now trying to triple boot this laptop between W7U, OpenSUSE 11.2/Rivendell 2.0.1 & AV Linux since I did get the Rivendell Live CD to work. Grub is seeing Win7 & AV Linux but not the Rivendell installation.

I can always manage to find the frustrating projects. lol

[GMaq]

OK,

I'll try an install here and see what I come up with. The launchers probably don't have the same categories as the AV Linux custom menu. See the AV Linux manual page 13 for more details.

I see that it adds a 'rivendell' group you probably will want to add your user to that group. Open a Root Terminal and do this:

Code:

adduser allen rivendell

[GMaq]

Uuuugh!

OK, I was right about the launchers, if you add the 'AudioEditing' category to them they appear in the menu. You also definitely need to add your user to the 'rivendell' group and also to the 'AudioOwner=' line in /etc/rd.conf.

What concerns me is that even with these steps taken the rivendell daemons don't start as they are supposed to and it also wants a mysql database login. I don't have time to get into this too deep to be honest and so far the Rivendell documentation looks a bit spotty. The fact that their repos don't work in Synaptic is a big concern as well although like you I was able to get the packages installed with apt. It also seems to want some stuff altered with PAM and I'm not comfortable with that since JACK running with Realtime permissions depends on PAM.

It certainly appears to me that Rivendell would be better set up on a dedicated broadcast machine than adding to an existing desktop but I'm sure anything is possible if you want to do the digging into it. I would guess that for broadcasting a podcast it might be significantly more than what is needed, but I am no expert.

I am just concerned that from the get go it seems to be a kludgy mess to get installed and running on AV Linux 

[kalimerox]

here s a wiki for internet broadcast via mixxx, maybe that helps

http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/internet_broadcasting

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What concerns me is that even with these steps taken the rivendell daemons don't start as they are supposed to and it also wants a mysql database login. I don't have time to get into this too deep to be honest and so far the Rivendell documentation looks a bit spotty. The fact that their repos don't work in Synaptic is a big concern as well although like you I was able to get the packages installed with apt. It also seems to want some stuff altered with PAM and I'm not comfortable with that since JACK running with Realtime permissions depends on PAM.

I totally agree and that's why I went triple-boot and did a fresh install of everything except Win7.

here s a wiki for internet broadcast via mixxx, maybe that helps

http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/internet_broadcasting

Thank you!

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So I set this laptop up to do a triple boot and the first Live CD install (based on openSUSE) was a total fail. There were absolutely NO instructions for setting that thing up so I found a different distro built instruction at the Rivendell Wiki: http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Debian_6_Minimal_Gnome_Install

I got this install setup based on the instructions linked above and so far, everything appears to be working as advertised. Now I just gotta RTFM (I printed and bound that bad boy) and learn how to use it properly!

I probably could have just gone with the instructions for MIXX but being the bullheaded punk that I am, I wanted to make Rivendell work. lolol. At some point, I still plan to follow these instructions http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/internet_broadcasting and play with MIXX too. Might be easier for some of my fellow broadcasters that are not so Linux ready. heh.

Thanks to all who gave input. I am blessed with your support.