Stream-monitoring / silence detect software?
 

I'm setting up a Internet-only streaming station for a college, working
on a conservative budget. The programming is currently pre-recorded and
automated, so we don't have a 24-hour staff yet. I'd like to set up
some sort of monitoring to ensure that the stream's on the air.

I could hook up a hardware silence monitor and pager, but it seems silly
to spend a few hundred bucks on that when the whole stream is being
generated, broadcast, and received in software. All I really need is
"if avg-stream-level -50dbFS then e-mail jay". Heck, I could probably
code it, if I knew more about audio decoding libraries.

Has anyone seen a software package like this?

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