Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hi.

I'm new to Icecast server and have just recently started using it. I am trying to find information about methods of injecting metadata on the fly into a live stream. For example, if I want to display the currently playing track name, I need a method to inject this. I know that it is possible to do this using source tools (such as Winamp with the OddcastV3 plugin for example), but I'm after a method which does it via soemthing like an http post (I believe this type of thing is possible on a Shoutcast server?). Can anyone tell me if this type of thing is possible please and if so point me in the right direction for some documentation/info?

Many thanks, Dan.

[karlH]

not with POST but a GET can be used with something like /admin/metadata?mount=/mount&mode=updinfo&song=New%20Title

karl.

[Anonymous]

perfect. thats exactly what i was after. thanks.

[robertut]

Yep, it works, great feature:

[robertut]

There is a bug in this (kh34a): the update seems to work (the actual audio stream is updated, it shows well in the player), however after some time the status.xsl doesn't reflect the changes. It looks like the entire status.xsl is frozen.

[robertut]

Is it a problem if I update once at every 60 seconds the metadata this way, for all my mountpoints, one by one?

- I update by calling http://admin:hackme@server.url:port/admin/metadata.xsl?mode=updinfo&charset=UTF-8&mount=%2Fmount&song=title
- I call status.xsl to check wether it updated or not
- if not, update again immediately
- if yes, update after 60 seconds with new metadata

It looks like I often enter the loop of updating immediately, because the result of the update is always 1, however status.xsl and the stream itself don't get updated. Strangely though, If i click the update link in the web interface, it works.

Am I doing something wrong? (kh34a)

[karlH]

are you saying that all updates to stats stop or just that the stats for that isn't working. The error log is key here.

karl.