Liquidsoap

Liquidsoap is a powerful, open-source tool for building audio and video streams. You describe your stream in a small, expressive scripting language (.liq): pull from playlists, live inputs, jingles and fallbacks, mix and normalize, schedule by time, and send the result to Icecast, HLS, files, or other outputs. It is the engine behind countless internet radios and playout chains. This appliance bundles the official Liquidsoap 2.4.5 release and gives you a ready-to-use playout box you drive over SSH.

Key features

• Scriptable radio automation and stream playout in the .liq language
• Feed Icecast (MP3/AAC/Ogg), package HLS, or write to files and other sinks
• Playlists, live inputs, crossfades, jingles, fallbacks and scheduling
• Ships the official, unmodified Liquidsoap 2.4.5 engine (GPL-2.0+)
• A bundled sample script runs on boot (a synthesized playlist to an internal output), so the engine is demonstrably alive out of the box
• A small co-located landing page documents scripting and Icecast/HLS usage and runs a first-boot fail-closed self-check (liquidsoap --version plus a script check)
• No web console and no credentials to manage: a pure scripting workflow

Use cases

• Run an internet radio: playlists, live shows, jingles and fallbacks to Icecast
• Build a playout chain that packages HLS for a player or CDN origin
• Automate scheduled audio (announcements, loops, time-of-day programming)

Why run it on the NetActuate edge Running the playout engine in a PoP close to your Icecast/CDN origin and your listeners shortens the delivery path and keeps your automation on infrastructure you control.

Deployed from the NetActuate marketplace, the appliance boots with Liquidsoap installed, the sample stream running, and the landing page serving on the instance IP. SSH in, edit /opt/liquidsoap/scripts/sample.liq or drop your own scripts, and point output.icecast(...) at your server. Optionally seed an Icecast target and it is surfaced on the landing page as guidance.