[Obsbox-devel] Why so quiet?

[Shawn R. <e_...@ya...>]

I see not much development has been going on.  It's strange, because I
haven't found any other significant rtp jukebox projects.  To me
Shoutcast seems inefficient, because each client runs an HTTP connection
to the server, right?  What I want is synchronized music throughout the
house; multiple clients receiving the same packets.  So it needs to be
multicast or broadcast.  Are there newer ideas which have made
obsequieum obsolete?

In my experience it crashes after some time (usually after several
songs).

I'm working on RTP support for the Rio Receiver, based on an existing
replacement firmware, rrr.  The idea is I will use another terminal to
interact with Obs via its web interface, and the Rio will just play
whatever it receives, so I don't have to interact with it so much.

http://www.reza.net/rio/rrr.html

Ironically its development is also stalled, since the same timeframe.

I would like to see Obsequieum also support Ogg Vorbis files.

I would like to have something to receive a Shoutcast session and
re-transmit it over the local network via RTP, so I can listen to legacy
Internet radio stations.

Finally I would like to have a second multicast channel dedicated to
announcements - caller ID, doorbell announcements, alarms, etc.  It
would involve displayable data as well as audio clips (synthesized
speech probably).  The clients which receive RTP should also mix it with
any audio received over the secondary channel, as long as the priority
exceeds a settable threshold. But that is probably unrelated to obs.

Are there other programs I should be looking at instead?