Liquidsoap Streaming Language

What is Liquidsoap?

Liquidsoap is a powerful and flexible language for describing audio and video streams. It offers a rich collection of operators that you can combine at will, giving you more power than you need for creating or transforming streams.

Simple

Liquidsoap is light and easy to use, in the Unix tradition of simple strong components working together. You can get your first stream running with just a couple lines of code.

Expressive

Instead of a complicated and limited configuration file, Liquidsoap gives you the power and expressivity of a fully featured language specially dedicated to your streaming needs.

Versatile

Liquidsoap supports multiple audio and video format and codecs, as well as many streaming input and output and some more, allowing you to send your streams wherever you wish to.

Examples

Some of the things you can do with Liquidsoap

Start a webradio

Creating a webradio and sending it to a icecast or shoutcast server is as simple as two lines of code! Setup a folder with your tracks and start streaming right away!
Add live shows

Bring live DJs to your web stream! Liquidsoap can accept connections from most live DJ software such as Mixxx or Darkice. Or you can simply direct your DJs to a webpage using the Webcaster client!
Customize your transitions

Define your own custom transitions between songs. Insert a jingle, fade the ending track out, or not. You can decide and write the code to implement it with little effort! See our default implementation.
Use your own infrastructure

Operator such as request.dynamic allow you to feed tracks to your Liquidsoap stream using whichever backend you desire. Multiple projects have been taking advantage of it, such as Libretime, Centova or Radionomy.
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