Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hi

I need to make an icecast server where titles are requested by users.

I ve got a website with titles database and users can request a track by hour (like a jukebox) and this track is added at the end of the current playlist

I can do the PHP/MYSQL part of the job, already got the folder with mp 3 and icecast server of a dedicated server but i dont know actually how to manage the playlist

do u have an idea of how i can handle this ?.

(I want the same as on -http://www.hardcoreradio.nl/ )

Thanks

[karlH]

It sounds like you need to look through the source client documentation to check what playlist update mechanism is used.

karl.

[Anonymous]

Hi Karl,

does icecast comes with a source client ? I never noticed..(I m just a newbie with icecast)

[karlH]

Read up on the docs and the FAQ forum. Icecast does not come with a source client as they are different applications which in many cases don't even reside on the same machine.

karl.

[Anonymous]

in my case, I need to run source and client on the same server , the website that I quoted in my first post uses icecast
(check -http://www.hardcoreradio.nl:9000/)

i suppose that on this website source and client are on the same machine, i cant believe that a man add manually each track request to his winamp playlist lol

i ve already googled and read a lot about icecast last week but for this specific needs I dont find anything so help would be appreciated

as i'm a C/C++ programmer i can if needed modify a source client , do you know some simple open source client that i can use (under linux)

thanks in advance.

[karlH]

You are still missing the key point, the stream is created by the source client not icecast. The playlist that a listener receives from icecast should not change at all. How the source client selects those tracks for streaming is up to you. I suspect you actually want to use something like ices 0.4

karl.

[Anonymous]

ok , but ices seems to start with a playlist as argument , is it possible to reload it again and how to know that is track is over and remove from the playlist ..

maybe I gonna get more info if I post or the source client forum or maybe you can move it to the source client forum ?

Thanx

[jcr]

As you already have PHP and MySQL, have a look to PShout PHP extension which is one of the best web site playlist manipulation program. You could even create with this a tiny daemon in PHP which could directly talk to your icecast server...
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[Anonymous]

Thanx, I m already trying to compile PHPShout on my server but I have some problems when i run make (parse errors)

[jcr]