Streamer plugin for RadioDJ 1.7.7

[joshuatree44]

I wonder if SnowHow is still with us? Have not seen any comments from him in a while. Marius I love this new feature. It is a huge help to us who watch our numbers like hawks. +1

[nonstopgospel]

I wonder if SnowHow is still with us? Have not seen any comments from him in a while. Marius I love this new feature. It is a huge help to us who watch our numbers like hawks. +1

That is true joshuatree44 in this post here http://www.radiodj.ro/community/index.php?topic=6655.msg38798#msg38798
even Marius was wondering where SnowHow was.. I haven't seen any post from SnowHow as well. I hope for the best and all is okay with Him!

[Jhonny]

As far as I understand he is very busy with school, he has already stated in a topic.

Jh.

[joshuatree44]

OK good news there. I hope he comes back to us one day!

As far as I understand he is very busy with school, he has already stated in a topic.

Jh.

[Nitrofish]

Ok, I got the encoder to connect, but now RDJ is freezing up for a few seconds, then normal for a second making it impossible to click any buttons when it is frozen. RDJ continues to play, and stream, but the interface is freezing on and off. Any ideas?

Edit: I restarted RDJ and it stopped that behavior, but I do not see listener counts, and I do not get the new graph anywhere. Did I miss something?

[xanaftp]

I would like to see in the future the Streaming plugin have a couple event options just like some encoder did... for example event options to start an encoder or stop an encoder.

If I'm missing something please let me know. But I don't see these when adding events. Thanks!

EDIT: I found a bug. If you close the encoder window, there is no way to get it back without restarting RadioDJ (not even going under options -> Plugins -> clicking show for the Streaming plugin will get it to show)

[TQ]

The encoder closes to the tray, double click on it and it's back!

I too would like the start/stop event feature plus (please pretty please) I would like to set the Genre and the stream Description via Events, that would be super cool and would allow me to make my YP directory listing much more relevant.

Forever asking for more ....

TQ

[chebaev]

How can i remove the number of listeners and statistics from the plugin?

[RADIOMIHKAY]

Please make it so that we can change witch line in/out to stream from like the standalone version also a metadata function would be nice

[darkbyte]

Very nice plugin, thank you for the development!
Any chance of adding support for the FDKAAC encoder ? It provides a LOT better quality than FAAC, as well as supporting HE-AAC and HE-AACv2 encoding capability.

[darkbyte]

After some investigation with forum search (i don't know why is this so hidden and not stated anywhere) now i see that the only way of adding AAC+ encoding is to have the Omnia Opticodec which makes the options for us not owning Omnia products very limited.

It seems to me that this streamer plugin was a derivate of edcast at some point which supported the Coding Technologies AAC encoder extractable from older Winamps. But it doesn't detect those DLLs. (Haven't tried the Fraunhoffer AAC encoders distributed with newer Winamp version though.)

However FDKAAC would be heavily recommended to be supported, because it's source is available, easily compilable (see: https://github.com/nu774/fdkaac_autobuild) and frequently updated.

Also it seems to me that track metadata is only updated once per every track change. Can this be configured to be included regulary, like every second? It's very annoying to not know what's been playing right now if you just "tune into" a station broadcasted by this plugin.

[DJ Garybaldy]

It seems to me that this streamer plugin was a derivate of edcast at some point which supported the Coding Technologies AAC encoder extractable from older Winamps.

Nope the RadioDJ streamer written by Marius is nothing to do with Edcast or other streaming plugins (e.g A******T)

Marius cannot supply AAC+ with the program without having to pay $$$$ for a licence to include it in the program.


Which would mean the program would no longer be free

Also it seems to me that track metadata is only updated once per every track change.

That's how most encoding programs work they send the metadata once on track change.

[darkbyte]

Marius cannot supply AAC+ with the program without having to pay $$$$ for a licence to include it in the program.

Then how about supporting generic CLI encoders (stdin/stdout) as an option and let the user supply the encoder binary, and write the command to be used? That way we could even customize the lame settings (-q and --lowpass options), and it's also possible to use ffmpeg.exe or fdkaac.exe if we want, but you don't even have to mention AAC in the documentation. This is what Breakaway does, you can write your own CLI command to be used and specify the bitrate and mime type which is sent to Icecast/Shoutcast.

That's how most encoding programs work they send the metadata once on track change.

Are you sure it's not depending on the encoder? The foo_streamer plugin of Foobar surely sends metadata at regular intervals and not just at track changes. Also if i tune into eg. Radioseven's stream, i see the current track immediately. Maybe it's the difference between the shoutcast and icecast protocols?

[DJ Garybaldy]

Are you sure it's not depending on the encoder?

Most of the encoding software I've worked with over the years has generally updated the metadata on song change (Or when the NowPlaying.txt files changes)

Some of the encoders that cannot be mentioned here had the option to change the metadata after so many seconds (thus thwarting stream rippers)

Plus there are some encoding software options out there that don't support metadata at all.

I've never really used Breakaway the (one and only) time I tested it way back it locked up my PC. I guess I should test it again now I have a new more powerful machine I still have the .exe files lurking somewhere.

[PROducer]

I just moved to a new streamhost this weekend, and I'm having issues connecting using Shoutcast V2.  Wondering if there's an issue with this streamer?  Anyone else having issues with Shoutcast V2?