SoundPlay - Advanced Music Playback for Zeta

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SoundPlay can be purchased online, only a demo version is included in Zeta.

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If you want any plugin to remember it's settings you must go to Settings->Preferences-> Plugins and check 'Save plugin-settings when deactivating'. To safeguard against accidental changes check 'Only when deactivating using drag&drop'.

SoundPlay - Advanced Music Playback for Zeta

SoundPlay is an commercial alternative to JukeBox. It is a powerful, award-winning audio player with an easy drag and drop interface, that plays a variety of file-formats, including WAV, AIFF, MS-ADPCM, IFF-8SVX, MOD, MIDI, mpeg layer 2 and 3 files and Ogg Vorbis. Third-party plugins extend the range of supported formats even further.

Constantly innovating, SoundPlay was the first player on Zeta (BeOS) to play and mix multiple files, the first player to offer full independant pitch-control for each file, the first to do crossfades between files, the first replicable player, and is still the only player on Zeta (not to mention the first player on any platform) able to decode mpeg in reverse (playing backwards).

SoundPlay comes with a variety of effect and visualization plugins, and is a complete streaming server solution.
Stream you music

Go to Settings->Preferences->Plugins->Filters.

Drag Live Encoder from Available to Active. This will launch the Live Encoder control window.

The control window has three tabs: Status, Encoder settings and Station settings.

1) Status tab

- The Events box shows the log.
- The Clients box lists active listeners. You can highlight a particular listener and kick them off the stream.

2) Encoder settings tab

- Select a stream encoder installed on your system. The encoders reside in /boot/home/config/bin. LAME is a good choice.
- Select a preset stream format. Which one depends on your number of listeners and your upstream capacity.
- Set a custom commandline for any audio encoder that supports streaming. You can also modify the current commandline to stream at 2
  different bitrates and ports. See the LAME manual for that.
- Halve samplerate for older encoders.
- Make mono does just that.

3) Station settings tab

- Server port 8000 is the most common for streaming audio. Ports range
  up to 64000.
- The Max. number of clients depends on your upstream capacity and bitrate.
- Set the station name, your music Genre and website URL. This information will be embedded into the audio stream.

Restarting the server will kick everyone off and apply any changed settings.
Mute audio on server cuts the echo when you relay audio streams or use live input from audio-in.

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