chrvadala / create-music-stream

Creates a PCM 16 bit Little Endian Stream from a mp3 file or youtube video

create-music-stream

Creates a PCM 16 bit Little Endian Stream from a mp3 file or youtube video

Usage

1. Install native dependencies

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev ffmpeg

2. Install package

yarn add create-music-stream

3. Get music stream

const createMusicStream = require('create-music-stream')
const stream = createMusicStream(source, logger)

Examples

Stream local MP3 file

const Speaker = require('speaker')
const createMusicStream = require('create-music-stream')

createMusicStream('./track.mp3', console.log)
  .pipe(new Speaker())

Stream Youtube audio

const Speaker = require('speaker')
const createMusicStream = require('create-music-stream')

createMusicStream('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz4MzJTeL0c', console.log)
  .pipe(new Speaker())

Changelog

• 1.0 - First public version
• 1.1 - Adds tests, Adds standard.js, Enables gh-actions, Upgrades deps
• 1.2 - Upgrades deps

FAQ

• If the YouTube player doesn't work read this article What if it stops working?
• If speaker dependency is unable to build read this doc Audio Backend Selection
• If you want to force ffmpeg binary path you can force it with the following code snippet

require('fluent-ffmpeg')
  .setFfmpegPath('/your/path/to/ffmpeg')

Contributors

• chrvadala (author)
• cihadturhan

create-music-stream's Issues

Incompatible with node v12

lame dependency is not compatible with node v12

Waiting TooTallNate/node-lame#99 getting merged

Make `lame` dep optional

Importing create-music-stream tries to require lame which fails to build on M1 macs and Node12+.