[Icecast] Silence Detection for stream - Linux (Ubuntu 12.04/14.04) ALSA ONLY

["Thomas B. Rücker"]

On 08/09/2014 12:39 AM, Dean Sauer wrote:
> Looking to find something that can do silence detection on a feed from 
> Icecast 2.3.2 with a silence detection period passed as a variable
>
> ie: sd my.server.invalid:8000/mymount -t 20m -s /home/myuser/sendalart.sh
>
>
> On detection of silence exceeding this period it calls /home/myuser/
> sendalart.sh to send an email, or something else... could be BASH as this 
> example, or PHP, python... or.....

I'd look into 'sox'. It's called a swiss army knife for a reason.

Cheers

Thomas