-Features
-========
-
-configurable audio streaming software:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- para_server streams binary audio data (mp3/ogg files) over
- local and/or remote networks. It supports three builtin
- streaming methods (senders): http, dccp, or rtp.
-
- para_audiod runs on the client side and connects to
- para_server. The audio stream is read from the network and
- sent through any of paraslash's filters (mp3 decoder, ogg
- vorbis decoder, volume normalizer,...). The resulting stream
- is written to an external program's standard in, usually an
- audio player like para_play, the alsa player of the paraslash
- package. It is possible to grab the stream at any position
- in the filter chain.
-
- The receiving/filtering software is also available as
- standalone command line tool: para_recv grabs the stream and
- writes to stdout; para_filter reads from stdin, converts the
- stream according to the given --filter command line options
- and writes the transformed stream to stdout.
-
-configurable audio file selectors:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- There are three audio file selectors available: random,
- playlist and mysql
-
- The first two of these are rather simple, and they are always
- supported. They allow streaming of randomly selected files
- or files given by a playlist respectively.
-
- The (optional) mysql selector is more involved. It manages
- statistics on your audio files, and audio file selection is
- done by sending a user-defined sql-query to the mysql server.
- This allows rather sophisticated configurations and is
- explained in detail in README.mysql.
-
- It is possible to switch between all supported selectors at
- any time.