Q: Automatic Switch Between Live in MP3 Modes?
 

I looked around this site, but could not find a plug in or feature that would allow WinAMP's DSP plug in to switch between sound card input and hard disc source automatically at a preset time.

I have a radio program that I do every Sunday night at 10PM. It runs 2 hours. What I've been doing is switching manually, the WinAMP input to soundcard before I leave the house at 8:30 and switching it back when I return at 1:15am.

I'd like to have it automatically switch to live at 9:59PM and back to hard drive at 1:05AM. Currently, too much of the station's other programming goes over my stream with the manual method.

What plugins are available that can do this? Or is there a way I can configure this to happen automatically? Or am I looking at a feature request? :-)

there's nothing available to do this that i know of. unfortunately this isn't something you should do anyways -- the nullsoft team would probably recommend against it too. just put it on sound card mode with the proper mixer settings, and keep it there. when you're not live, the people won't know it's still on SC mode. as a matter of fact, i keep mine on soundcard input 24/7 because it's more stable this way.

-amps

While that's possible, I still have to utilize some form of automation for switching. Now I could do that easily enough, but now I am contending with having to use two computers now instead of one, since I would need to have a PC with, say, Raduga running on it, to serve the music and the other PC to Shoutcast it from the analog input. A simple timer and a relay would switch inputs. But this is getting away from my goal, which is simplicity and low cost of operation (this whole operation is happening on a Pentium 200MMX machine with a bunch of scrapped 9GB HDs). There is not much resource left to run much of anything in the background, with two stream encoders going at once. Fully-utilized.