Radio stream?

[m]

Would be cool to have an online livestream, either repohosting other streams or allowing folks to swap-in their own stuff

[talijacoyote@…]

Is there some sort of format you had in mind? It's pretty easy to set up icecast mounts.

[m]

not really! I assume mixxx can plug into the standard ways of doing a stream, having a web frontend for folks to access would be nice. relaying ​https://wjtbradio.com/ or other submitted radios would be cool too.

[talijacoyote@…]

That looks like it'd plug into icecast just fine, if wanted I can look at setting icecast2 up to start with, then we can figure out a front end? I don't think it'd be too hard to do something like probe the mount to see if it's online on a main page, and embed the mounts in a list with some sort of indicator, or list offline stations separately.

[m]

some sources to pull from:

• ​https://wjtbradio.com/
• ​https://trash-archive.net/
• ​https://icecast.smallrat.net/coolzone.mp3
• ​https://radio.lainchan.org/listen/lainchan_radio_main/radio.mp3.m3u
• ​https://sleepy.zone/ if they're ever back

whatever else

[m]

finn recommends ​https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell (​https://www.rivendellaudio.org) and also not icecast (do it straight from ffmpeg? this is a joke recommendation)

[m]

finn complains about chunking.

[talijacoyote@…]

I presume the streaming is handled better but that also seems incredibly overkill for a few streams, looking at its sales pitch. It looks like the way it is intended to be distributed is through a full install of Ubuntu desktop. I would really like to not have to administer an entire broadcast suite aimed at professionals just to relay a few streams.

[talijacoyote@…]

If we want to go with something else that's fine, I will look around.

[m]

​https://radio.vantaa.black:8000/vantaradio.mp3

[m]

I presume the streaming is handled better but that also seems incredibly overkill for a few streams, looking at its sales pitch.

yeah this suggestions was kind of off-the-cuff complaining. icecast is almost definitely fine.

[m]

​https://www.wrek.org/shows/100-wreks

[m]

Yeah, I've been feeling very inspired by ​https://sleepy.zone

to the point of going like: new branding / new identity surrounding this kind of thing & doing a fair amount of promotional work. Finding artists to submit sets. creating a community.

hmm

[m]

sparx recommends azuracast

also camp boneyard is cool

[m]

​https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development/Summer_of_Code/2024/ListenBrainz

​https://github.com/metabrainz/troi-recommendation-playground

​https://tilde.town/~lucidiot/psp/radio

[nc@…]

(posting this on tickets #1121 and #679 since both seem to be similar)

i have set up an icecast server at radio.hack.bike, source password (and admin password) available upon request

i am also compiling a collection of creative commons music that might be relevant to /dev/hack's potential listener base, since music licensing will be an issue for something public-facing like this. (we could maybe get around the issue by partnering with kremwerk/impact foundation and using their blanket performance licenses? something to ask them about, but potentially complicated)

also i looked at tools for putting the stream together (as opposed to streaming it) and liquidsoap ​https://www.liquidsoap.info/ looks promising