Hi everyone.
I am now using vlc to do the audio streaming and would like to add silence detection function.
I planned to use Streamripper to record audio streaming and save as mp3 format to haddisk every 10 seconds.
Then run a script to check each mp3 file have silence or not. If it have silence around 5 seconds it will send a alert to us.
Does any software can detect the silence of mp3 file? I am using Centos 6.7 text mode.
Thank you very much!

Kelvin

dexfcoss, your post is missing a lot of crucial information.
you should provide us with something to work with, if you want help.
please read the first link in my signature.

additionally, i think the question can be answered with a simple search?

Hi ondoho,
I am sorry for missing crucial information.i am now using linux centos 6.7 32bit text only, VLC version 1.1.13 and Streamripper 1.64.6.
The ideal flow chart should be:
VLC streaming ---> record by Streamripper via internet and save as mp3 file every 10 seconds ---> use software to detect threshold from saved mp3 ---> send email if threshold too low around 5 seconds
After some research from internet before, I tried jacksilent, sox, ffmpeg etc. But still cannot figure out how can detect audio threshold from mp3.
Sorry if any misunderstanding caused. Thanks

Kelvin

Hi

I used mp3splt some time ago after recording some vinyl records. The "silence detection" actually worked on studio albums - splitting the sound into songs. It has lots of options. Read the man page - I think the file "mp3splt.log" will have silence information after using the -s option.

It is a package ready to install in Debian, I don't know about CentOS.

so there's a dedicated app that can detect silence.
i'm sure e.g. sox could do the same...
then you still have to write yourself a script around that, a script that does what you want.
show some effort, then we'll be willing to assist you further.

Thanks Guttorm and ondoho.
After tried sox and mp3splt more deeply. I find that sox and mp3splt can only open noise only mp3 file. If i try to open audio mp3, it will display the following error:

SOX

[root@localhost ~]# /usr/local/sox/bin/sox audio1.mp3 audio6.mp3 silence 1 5 1%

/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: recoverable MAD error
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox WARN mp3-util: MAD lost sync
/usr/local/sox/bin/sox FAIL formats: can't open input file `audio1.mp3':

Mp3splt

[root@localhost ~]# mp3splt -s audio1.mp3
Processing file 'audio1.mp3' ...
error: no plugin matches the file 'audio1.mp3'

Here is my sox and mp3splt version:
mp3splt 2.4.2 (13/05/12) - using libmp3splt 0.7.2
SoX v14.4.2

I already activated mp3 feature when compiling sox. Thanks.

Hi

If you google "mp3splt error: no plugin matches the file" you'll find some answers. It seems to be a problem with some old versions and RPM packages.

what distro?
is it up-to-date (have you updated/graded today)?
where is the input file coming from? is it really mp3?
why are you doing this as root?

I am now solve the problem. I tried to use ffmpeg change mp3 to ogg and then mp3splt work normally.
Now i can check the average audio level every 15 seconds. Thanks Guttorm and ondoho.