- para_server. The audio stream is read back and sent through
- any of paraslash's filters (mp3 decoder, ogg vorbis decoder,
- volume normalizer,...) and the resulting stream is written to
- an external program's standard in, usually an audio player,
- like para_play that uses alsa. 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 http or ortp
- 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.
-
-mysql-based audio file selector:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- the (optional) mysql database tool manages some statistics on
- your audio files. It contacts the mysql server to decide which
- song to play next by sending a user-defined sql-query. This
- allows rather sophisticated configurations and is explained
- in detail in README.mysql.
+ para_server. The audio stream is read from the network and
+ sent through any of paraslash's filters (decoder, volume
+ normalizer,...). The resulting stream is written to an external
+ program's standard in, usually an audio player like para_write,
+ which comes with paraslash and contains an alsa player. It
+ is possible to capture the stream at any position in the
+ filter chain.
+
+ The receiving/filtering/playing software is also available
+ as standalone command line tool: para_recv, para_filter,
+ and para_write.
+
+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 works
+ 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.