Re: 'Live stream objects' suggestions required.

Roman Haefeli <[email protected]> Wed, 21 May 2025 12:47:18 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, 2025-05-21 at 09:40 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Again, just to clarify, I want to receive three separate internet mp3
> streams within one PD patch. Is that possible?

There is [readanysf~] which supports many protocols and audio formats.
It's included in Debian and its derivatives as 'pd-readanysf':

sudo apt install pd-readanysf

Unfortunately, I started experiencing crashes with [readanysf~] lately.
However, it seems those occur only when playing local files, but not
when playing URLs. You mileage may vary. I've been using [readanysf~]
for playing web radios and I haven't found a stream that couldn't be
played.

I heard that [play.file~] from ELSE has gained capabilities to stream
web sources.  You can install ELSE through Deken. Search for 'else'. I
couldn't test myself since I get 'undefined symbol' errors when trying
to load compiled objects from the library. 

While I like very much the wide format support and the simple interface
of [readanysf~], it's based on libraries whose development has stopped
years ago and the external itself currently hasn't a maintainer. ELSE,
on the other hand, has a very active and responsive maintainer.
Depending on your OS, ELSE might work out of the box (currently, it
doesn't for me on Ubuntu 24.04) and I am confident reported issues are
addressed within reasonable time. 

https://github.com/porres/pd-else/

https://github.com/pd-externals/readanysf

Roman

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