Icecast Streaming Media Server

[MedPlay]

Hi. We are a developers and we want to develop a player that will load the icecast directory into the player. That means the list of the radios will be in the player.

How can we do that. Is there some documentation or url how we can access the xml list of icecast radios.

Also is it possible to list icecast tv stations into our player like the radios.

thanks.

[karlH]

you can request the /yp.xml file (compressed) from the server to retrieve the list.

karl.

[MedPlay]

Hi karl. Thanks about the info.

I found this address

http://dir.xiph.org/yp.xml

is it possible somehow to filter the radios for example by genre.

Also are there tv stations on icecast or whatever video stream exist on icecast?

Also can you specify some api documentation about this stuff
Thanks again.

[karlH]

you'll have to talk to balbinus on this, he is the YP maintainer. I'm not aware of any filters for the whole lot, there is a question of load after all.

karl.

[Brutish]

Hey Karl, I always wonder about this...

Would it be possible to (I will put the money up for this) get a dedicated IP for Icecast YP. The only thing Shoutcast has over Icecast is a dedicated directory, thats easy to access. I wasnt sure if for some reason Xiph opted never for this to happen, or something of that nature.

This would be nice. REAL Nice.

MEDPlay, good on you. You make something like this, and I will put it up on every site I have.
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[karlH]

Not sure what you mean by a dedicated IP in this regard.

karl.

[iunderwood]

@Brutish: By a dedicated IP, are you referring to something like "yp.icecast.org" or something which is more or less tied to the server versus Xiph as a whole?

@MedPlay: Are you referring to some method which to request the current YP by sending some sort of search command to it?

It's an interesting discussion, for sure.
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[MedPlay]

I am reffering to placing parameter in the url and getting the radios that only match the parameter. for example if i place electro in url then get only the electro radios.

Is there a something like this or we have to build it on our own?

Also how can I get compressed the whole xml list? Its about 1.3 MB but i wont gonna need it whole

Also does radios data changes constantly?

[iunderwood]

I imagine the radio data changes all the time. I know that for my station, my song info changes for four mountpoints every couple of minutes.

It would be nice if yp.xml could get a search passed to it.
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