<html><head></head><body><div>Hello,</div><div>I have made myself a radio station that just shuffles my music collection, transcodes it to ogg/vorbis and streams that over icecast.</div><div>It's a simple shell script utilixing ffmpeg and oggfwd, on a headless Debian server.</div><div>Due to copyright issues I cannot make it public (I guess), so I'll often have no listeners at all, and usually just myself.</div><div>But the script is still chugging along, transcoding music to nowhere.</div><div><br></div><div>Now I understand that the buffer has to be full when a listener connects. And I also understand that the unique character of a radio station would be lost if the playlist actually stops when nobody is listening.</div><div><br></div><div>Even so, is it possible to avoid this waste of resources while still having my very own radio station?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>D.T.</div><div><br></div><div>PS: thanks for yet another glorious FOSS application!!!</div><div><br></div><div><span><pre>___
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