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   1 DisOrder and Republishing Internet Streams
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   3
   4 DisOrder doesn't have any built-in support for playing streams but you can make
   5 it do so.  I use the following in my configuration file:
   6
   7  player /export/radio/*.oggradio shell 'xargs ogg123 -q < "$TRACK"'
   8  collection fs iso-8859-1 /export/radio
   9
  10 After setting this up you'll need to re-read the config file and provoke a
  11 rescan:
  12
  13   disorder reconfigure rescan /export/radio
  14
  15 /export/radio contains a file for each stream, containing the URL to use:
  16
  17  lyonesse$ cat /export/radio/CUR1350.oggradio
  18  http://cur.chu.cam.ac.uk:8000/cur.ogg
  19
  20 You'll probably want to prevent random play of streams:
  21
  22  disorder set /export/radio/CUR1350.oggradio pick_at_random 0
  23
  24 You can then queue a stream like any other track.  It won't automatically
  25 interrupt the playing track, you have to scratch it manually.  Go back to
  26 normal play by scratching the stream.
  27
  28
  29 Creating A Stream Of DisOrder Output
  30 ====================================
  31
  32 This can be achieved using the speaker_command option and Icecast (see
  33 http://www.icecast.org/).  It will only work if you use the speaker process,
  34 i.e. execraw for everything.
  35
  36 I used:
  37
  38   speaker_command "ices2 /etc/disorder/ices.xml"
  39
  40 where ices.xml is:
  41
  42   <?xml version="1.0"?>
  43   <ices>
  44       <background>0</background>
  45       <logpath>/var/log/ices</logpath>
  46       <logfile>disorder.log</logfile>
  47       <loglevel>4</loglevel>
  48       <consolelog>0</consolelog>
  49       <stream>
  50           <metadata>
  51               <name>lyonesse</name>
  52               <genre>Various</genre>
  53               <description>lyonesse disorder output</description>
  54           </metadata>
  55           <input>
  56               <module>stdinpcm</module>
  57               <param name="rate">44100</param>
  58               <param name="channels">2</param>
  59               <param name="metadata">1</param>
  60               <param name="metadatafilename">/var/disorder/icedata</param>
  61           </input>
  62           <instance>
  63               <hostname>lyonesse.anjou.terraraq.org.uk</hostname>
  64               <port>8000</port>
  65               <password>SOURCE PASSWORD HERE</password>
  66               <mount>/disorder.ogg</mount>
  67               <reconnectdelay>2</reconnectdelay>
  68               <reconnectattempts>5</reconnectattempts>
  69               <maxqueuelength>80</maxqueuelength>
  70               <encode>
  71                   <nominal-bitrate>64000</nominal-bitrate>
  72                   <samplerate>44100</samplerate>
  73                   <channels>2</channels>
  74                   <flush-samples>8820</flush-samples>
  75               </encode>
  76           </instance>
  77
  78           </stream>
  79   </ices>
  80
  81 This doesn't seem to get on very well with pausing but you're unlikely to want
  82 to pause a stream in any case.  I used IceCast 2.3.1 and Ices 2.0.1.  You can
  83 play the stream with XMMS or whatever.  The total setup seems to play rather
  84 behind the 'current' time, watch this space for a fix (or contribute one!)
  85
  86 Other DisOrder options you can set are sox_generation which you should set to
  87 if you have a sufficently recent version of sox, due to an incompatile change
  88 in its command syntax; and sample_format which determines what format is
  89 supplied to the speaker_command.  See disorder_config(5) for further
  90 information.
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