--- date: "2003-11-23T06:45:19Z" title: Decoupled Icecast Streaming ---
I separated the Icecast streaming for Pablotron Radio from XMMS. I'm just using shout
to queue files for the stream now. I also wrote a brief script which calls XOSD to notify me when a new song comes on. Here's the script:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby # some XOSD settings ENV['DISPLAY'] = ':0' FONT = "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-20-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-2" # fork and exit so shout doesn't block pid = fork if pid Process::waitpid(pid, Process::WNOHANG) exit 0 end # make sure the cue file updates sleep 1 # read the cue file and pipe it to xosd File::open('/var/log/icecast/.cue', 'r') { |cue| name, size, rate, time, unknown, ofs = cue.readlines.map { |i| i.chomp } IO::popen("osd_cat -p bottom -f #{FONT} -s 1 -c \\#ffcc00", 'w') { |osd| osd.puts "#{time} - #{name}" } }
Why go through all this trouble? So I can use XMMS to search for and preview songs locally, without messing with the active stream. Plus it's neat to have XOSD notifications for stuff :).