tunecat: A Minimal Internet Radio Tool for Streaming Music Over IRC
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croottree
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Summary
A minimal internet radio tool called "tunecat" that streams music over IRC. It serves a Classical Music Mix via a demo instance on a chaotic IRC network. The tool requires Opus-encoded audio files, an SSL certificate for TLS client authentication, and an IRC account with CertFP (Certificate Fingerprint) for NickServ. It includes a pre-transcoding script (opusify) to convert songs to Opus 128 kbps format.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledSimple and dumb internet radio thingy.
There is a demo instance serving Classical Music Mix (CC Public Domain Mark 1.0) for #chat on a very chaotic IRC network.
Use the provided opusify script to pre-transcode all your songs to Opus 128 kbps.
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