In this manual you get explained the latter mentioned commandline mode, usually appealing to unix ascii freaks.
MuSE is being developed in the hope to provide the Free Software Community with a useful and user friendly tool for network audio streaming, making life easier for indypendent free speech radios.
In fact MuSE can stream at multiple bitrates and to multiple servers.
You can also use playlists with muse: text files which store on each
line the location of the file to be queued when playing. To easily
generate such a text file you can simply do:
find /my/music/dir/ -name *.ogg > ogg-playlist.pls
and then you can load the 'ogg-playlist.pls generated file to be
played by MuSE.
Last but not least you can use filesystem directories: if a directory is loaded as an input channel in MuSE, it will be recursively searched and all playable formats inside will be added to the playlist queue.
Therefore a muse commandline containing the options
[...] -s stream.dyne.org:7090 -m my-radio.ogg
will be available to be listened at the URL
http://stream.dyne.org:7090/my-radio.ogg which should be simply
typed in the 'Open Location' dialog of most audio players.
muse -C -i -N1 -V0.5 test.wav -N2 -V0.7 test.ogg -e ogg -f record.ogg -s stream.dyne.org -m muse-example.ogg -l ice2 -p hackme
The above command starts muse in commandline mode, recording from the
soundcard input and continuously mixing two channes over it: the first
playing test.wav at half volume, the second test.ogg at slightly
higher volume. The resulting audio is then encoded in Ogg/Vorbis
format and simultaneously recorder in the record.ogg file and streamed
to the stream.dyne.org server, using mountpoint 'muse-example' and the
icecast2 type login password 'hackme'. The stream will be available
at the url http://stream.dyne.org:8000/muse-example.ogg
muse -C playlist.pls -e ogg -s stream.dyne.org:6969 -m my-music -l ice2 -p hackme
The above (simplier) command plays continuously all files listed in
the 'playlist.pls', encoding them in Ogg/Vorbis and streaming them to
stream.dyne.org (port 6969) icecast2 server on mountpoint 'my-music'
with password 'hackme'. The listening URL for the stream will
therefore be http://stream.dyne.org:6969/my-music - you can also avoid
to listen the music being streamed on your computer by using the -o
flag at the very beginning of the commandline.
Depending on the version, MuSE might sport a scheduler allowing you to stream files, URLs, playlists or MuSE channels at specified days & hours. The scheduler can be operated through the GTK interface (other interfaces do not have it yet) or by directly editing the $HOME/.muse/schedule.xml file.
The aforementionned file contains comments explaining all tags, attributes and wildcards supported - use it also as help for editing the schedule through the GUI.
Bug reporting is very welcome, especially if you know how to use the CVS version of this software. The sourcecode comes with memory fencing (dmalloc) and profiling functionalities, more information on how to download from CVS is available on the website muse.dyne.org.
When you have a bugreport, complete with debug logs (using the -D3 flag) and possibly with the gdb backtraces you can submit it in the bugtracker system on http://bugs.dyne.org.
Thanks much for your collaboration, we need expert people to consciously follow development and bugfixing: you can surely do if you understood all the above ;)
Denis "jaromil" Rojo - author and mantainer rastasoft.org Antonino "nightolo" Radici - GTK+ interface freaknet.org Luca "rubik" Profico - NCURSES interface olografix.org Angelo "pallotron" Failla - more input channels freaknet.org Eugen Melinte - time program scheduler a full list of developers can be found in the AUTHOR file This manual page was written by Filippo "godog" Giunchedi and further edited by jaromil. Join and write the mailinglist on lists.dyne.org/muse to contact users and developers.
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MuSE source code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Please refer to the GNU Public License for more details.
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The most recent version of MuSE can be obtained from its homepage at http://muse.dyne.org.