Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Tumeski]

Hello there,

My current status is that i need to figure out a way to send metadata to icecast2 "remotely". By this i mean that i need a standalone program that would collect my metadata from player machine (for example winamp plays a song on pc) and then send this metadata to icecast2 and icecast2 would send it to clients.

So this is too complicated? This is best i can think...

The reason for this you ask? Well my setup is that i play music trough mixertable and i dont use straight encoding from the player computer. The metadata can't travel trough soundcards hehe Im pretty sure there is a explanation for this cause i think many use mixertables there...

[karlH]

The typical process for this would be to use the songchange plugin to send or signal the external app to process the metadata and then inject it via the source client (ices2 metadata file) or via the /admin/metadata[.xsl] url on icecast.

karl.

[Tumeski]

Okay... I didnt really understand anything of that... Basically im looking for a plugin that could send the metadata information to Icecast2 server.

My current setup is something like this

PC/CD-Player/etc.. -> Mixertable -> PC(With darkice that sends the sound data) -> Server machine(Here is Icecast2 that receives the data and distributes it to clients.)

So what i need to do basically is either send metadata staright

^------------------------------------------------\/
PC->Mixertable-PC(DARKICE)->Server(ICECAST2)

OR

^---------------------\/ ^--------------\/
PC->Mixertable-PC(DARKICE)->Server(ICECAST2)



Either way. The first one would be the most ideal, but i can pipe the metadata trough darkice machine...


Also i would like to know some example programs that can do this... So I would have an idea what kind of plugin im looking for.

Thanks!