[PD] Has anyone used PD to read internet radio streams?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I know the locusonus people were using Pd for receiving streams.  Its  
definitely possible.

.hc

On Apr 8, 2009, at 8:14 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

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>
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> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 07:41 +0200, danomatika wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone has used PD to read internet radio streams?
>>
> in german, one would say 'jein', for yes and no. i did work on a  
> project
> with pd controlling radio streams, but i haven't used pd to actually
> receive the streams. i found mplayer to be very useful for that for
> several reasons:
> - it supports many streaming formats (virtually all), no change to get
> that in pd directly
> - it's highly configurable
> - it's commandline based and provides several ways for interaction
> - it connects to jack
>
> so what i did, is using pd to control two mplayer instances (in  
> order to
> get gapless crossfades between streams), which are routing their audio
> signals to pd over jack. the '-af pan'  filter of mplayer is your  
> friend
> here.
>
> the a bit outdated diagram shows, how mplayer and pd are interacting:
> http://www.radiosolarkompass.org/tech/rsk_diagramm.png
> (with a recent mplayer, the jack.plumbing part isn't needed anymore.  
> you
> can route mplayer output to the correct pd input by simply using  
> proper
> commandline flags for mplayer. check '-af pan' and '-ao jack' in the  
> man
> page).
>
> roman
>
>> I need to make an "interactive tuner" ...
>>
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