Liquidsoap

Liquidsoap is a powerful tool for building complex audio and video stream generators, typically targeting internet radios and webtvs. It consists of a simple script language, which has a first-class notion of source (basically a stream) and provides elementary source constructors and source compositions from which you can build the stream generator you want. This design makes liquidsoap flexible and easily extensible.

We believe that liquidsoap is easy to use. For basic purposes, the scripts consist of the definition of a tree of sources. You will quickly learn how natural it is to use liquidsoap in such cases. The good thing is that when you’ll want to make your stream more complex, you’ll be able to stay in the same framework and keep a maintainable configuration. Of course, using some complex features might require a deeper understanding of the concepts of source and request and of our scripting language.

We’ll discuss below what liquidsoap is and what it isn’t. If you’re already familiar with it and want to get started, just jump to the documentation index. It will provide guidance,starting with the quickstart tour.

Liquidsoap is an open-source software from the Savonet project.