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Nov 21, 2012To share both music and announcements, uses from Github. Play is an 'employee-powered iTunes-based client-driven distributed music server for your office'.Our company DJ (a big-hearted, chrome-plated ) manages Play and occasionally accepts submissions from the team.Play syncs the company song queue, but a streaming audio server is still needed to stream what's playing. There are products that do this; is one.You can also build an open-source frankenstack for free. It's just four pieces:, and.This post explains how to put these pieces together.While it's a little more work, the outcome is the ability to stream system audio anywhere.This makes more scenarios possible and it requires less maintenance - there's norequirement to add media files in advance or to configure any applications.
Before startingYou'll need the latest compiler installed, whether via XCode or the OSX Mountain Lion Command Line Tools installation at (recommended if you don't need all of XCode). You'll need to be somewhat comfortable with working on the.Make sure you have installed. And make sure to run brew update before beginning, and brew doctor if anything goes wrong along the way.
Installation: SoundflowerSoundflower is an inter-application audio routing utility. Soundflower creates additional audio devices that bind to applications to send and receive audio.Soundflower also comes with a program called Soundflowerbed. It lets you listen to audio locally even while broadcasting, like a splitter. Here's what the Soundflowerbed menu bar app looks like:and install it. Homebrew doesn't have a Soundflower formula AFAIK, but thankfully there's nothing tricky to this installation.Once you've restarted we'll install the next component, Jack. Installation: JackJack is a professional quality audio tool that can also route audio between applications.Jack had problems initially with Mac OSX 10.7.3+, but a beta version seems to have worked the bugs out. Neither the Homebrew formula nor the latest download on have the new code, but you can find it on the Jack-OSX Yahoo group.There's a link to the 0.90b8 beta package on.
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Download and install it, restarting when necessary.Next, start the Soundflowerbed app (in /Applications/Soundflower) and choose the 'Audio Setup' option from the menu bar icon it installs. This will launch the System Audio Midi Setup menu. Set both input and output to Soundflower (2ch), like in the image below. Also make sure the volume is up.Now we can start Jack as follows. Brew install darkice -use-llvm #ignore the linking warnings for Jack - Darkice must complete without Jack linked!During this process Jack will fail to link and issue a warning but the script will still continue. This is good, because Darkice will then build against the downloaded Jack. If things blow up which installing dependencies, install without the llvm flag and then retry this again.
The goal is just to get the Jack-failed-link and the Darkice build in the same step. Installation: IcecastIcecast is the web-serving layer of our stack, accepting incoming client connections and then broadacsting out the stream it receives from Darkice.Install Icecast with Homebrew. Darkice -c /.darkice.cfgWe can now check our status by logging into Icecast's administration UI.
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Go to and enter the admin-user and admin-password from the icecast.xml config file. You should arrive at the admin page:And you should see an area below that shows the active mount point, created by Darkice:Testing with a clientNow, head over to another computer on your network, or your smartphone, and head for to the streaming address we've set up. The URL should look something like this: 'computer.local' for the hostname or IP address of your computer. 'spin' is the name of the mountpoint we specified in darkice.cfg (and 8000 the port).Paste the URL into Safari on Mac or iOS and you should get playback in iTunes / iOS Quicktime respectively:Now you, your team, or the whole Internet can listen to your music, broadcasts, and the output of the command! Flex the golden pipes! Configure your routerYou won't be able to access your streaming server from outside your home network unless your open the appropriate ports on your router. In this example, you'd open port 8000.
Your router's instruction manual can you tell you how. Bonus GistIf you get it all to work, you might want to run these programs in the background and on startup. I wrote up a few basic plist files to be used with launchd that do just that. You can find them in. ThanksThanks to the creators of all of these fine tools and the author of this article:.
Up until yesterday (24th October 2012) SoundFlower was working fine on my mac to enable me to hear Adobe Audition C5.5 and RECORD what I was hearing through my speakers - was using Soundflower 2ch set up for input and output, and then setting Soundflower to Built-in Output in order to hear and then record what I was hearing through Adobe Audition.Today, 25th October 2012, I boot up and it won't work. Now I can't hear Adobe either but i can hear iTunes.I searched on Google and my heart sank as I saw threads about Mountain Lion OS problems and Soundflower.Any ideas/help?Thanks!(ps I've tried loading previous versions of Soundflower but no joy - you go back too far and you get the Power progs are not supported anymore message)- Rory.
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