Thursday, May 18, 2006
MuSE
Wouldnt it be cool to have a way to mix multiple streams of audio into one stream. The Cool Pick Of The Day, MuSE, allows for just that. MuSE is a free Open Source, GPL licensed application, for the mixing, encoding, and network streaming of sound. MuSE is capable of mixing 6 audio streams from files (mp3 and ogg), network source, as well as sound card output. The encoded stream can then be played locally through a sound card, recorded to harddisk, as well as stream over a network. Additionally, the audio can be streamed to a audio server (Litestream, Icecast, Darwin Streaming Server, and Shoutcast) and then to network clients.
MuSE offers both graphical interfaces and a command line interface to control its features as well as a reusable API interface to the core mixing engine to allow for creation of new interfaces.
For added functionality, LAME and Ogg Vorbis libraries can be utilized for MP3 and OggVorbis support.An important Note. MuSE is not the same thing as MusE. MusE was covered in an earlier C.P.O.T.D.
Installation
wget ftp://ftp.dyne.org/muse/sources/MuSE-0.9.2.tar.gz
tar zxf MuSE-0.9.2.tar.gz
cd /tmp/MuSE-0.9.2
./configure --with-ogg-prefix=/usr/local/lib --with-vorbis-prefix=/usr/local/lib
make
# if you have MusE installed you should differentiate between these two Muse's: MuSE and MusE
# by saving the binary muse to its proper name. e.g. c
paco -lp MuSE-0.9.2 "make install"
# Now copy the newly installed (different muse) to its proper name. e.g. cp /usr/local/bin/muse /usr/local/bin/MuSE
Running MuSE
/usr/local/bin/MuSE
