RadioBlock

AdBlock for the polish public radio Trójka. Uses cross correlation to find ad jingles and mutes the whole ads block. More info can be found in a blog post: part 1, part 2.

Usage

Building

The project can be build with:

mvn clean install

Case 1 - detecting ads

The analyzer modules is a CLI application reading the stream from the standard input and trying to find the configured samples. For instance, the command below uses ffmpeg to generate the raw stream of Polish "Trójka" and looks for the commercial start and stop jingles, with thresholds 500 and 700, respectively. The "2" describes the channel count:

cd analyzer
ffmpeg -loglevel -8 \
       -i http://stream3.polskieradio.pl:8904/\;stream \
       -f s16le -acodec pcm_s16le - \
  | java -jar target/analyzer-*-jar-with-dependencies.jar \
    2 \
    src/test/resources/commercial-start-44.1k.raw 500 \
    src/test/resources/commercial-end-44.1k.raw 700

Another example - reading the audio stream from the RTL-SDR device:

rtl_fm -M wbfm -f 89.50M -g 0 \
 | java -jar analyzer-*-jar-with-dependencies.jar 1 \
   commercial-start-32k-mono.raw 180 \
   commercial-end-32k-mono.raw 190 \

Case 2 - GUI

A standalone "Trójka" player with GUI:

java -jar standalone/target/standalone-*.jar

Case 3 - write the muted stream to stdout

A command line "Trójka" player, passing the stream to stdout. Output format is PCM, 48000, stereo, low-endian. Example:

java -jar standalone/target/standalone-*.jar --cli 500 700 \
  | play -t raw -b 16 -c 2 -r 48000 -e signed-integer -

Case 4 - Icecast with Docker

An Icecast server streaming the radio broadcast, with ads muted.

cd standalone
docker-compose up --build 

The broadcast will be available at http://localhost:8000/