Documentation index
How to use: Start with the quickstart and make sure you learn how to find help. Then it's as you like: go for another tutorial, pick a specific topic in the “Documentation” section, or some examples from the cookbook. If you've understood all you need, just browse the reference and compose your dream stream.
If you downloaded a source tarball of liquidsoap, you may first read the build instructions.
Tutorials
- Quickstart: where anyone should start.
- Complete case analysis: an example that is not a toy.
- Advanced: overview of more advanced features for serious usage.
- How to find help about operators, settings, server commands, etc.
Documentation
- Basic concepts: details what are sources and requests.
- Bubble: a simple example of a database interface as a custom protocol.
- Blank detection
- Queued sources
- Cookbook: contains lots of idiomatic examples.
- Customize metadata
- HTTP input vs. Harbor input: relay and host external streams.
- Normalization and replay gain
- Shoutcast output
- Smart crossfading
- Script loading: load several scripts, learn about the script library.
Reference
- API reference: all the builtin functions of liquidsoap.
- Script language: A more detailed presentation.