Icecast Streaming Media Server

[m-dizzle]

Hi guys,

just set up an ice cast server and very impressed with audio quality.

Quick question really...

Can you change the title of a stream whilst listeners are connected without having to stop the stream and start it again?

From what i can see, any changes made (i.e. adding another mountpoint to move listners to or changing the details of a live mountpoint) in the config file would mean stopping and re-starting icecast

am i right about this?

Once again, keep up the great work on this project.

[karlH]

Many changes can be made to the xml and they would be applied when a HUP signal is sent but many streams send title information as metadata and that does not require an xml update.

karl.

[m-dizzle]

KH, do you know the answer to this?

I have searched the forums and cannot sem to find a definate answer.

Just need to know whether you need to restart icecast or not?

Thanks

Mario

[Anonymous]

after any change to the xml you need to restart icecast yes

[karlH]

No, many xml changes do apply on a reload but the OP was asking about title changes which (depending on what exactly we are dealing with) has nothing to do with the xml.

karl.

[m-dizzle]

Hi Karl,

i've been away...

okay, i am running oddcast DSP plugin for winamp with icecast2.3.1 on Fedora Core 2 VPS.

is there any other info you might need?

[karlH]

Again it depends on what you mean by title. Any listener connection has a stream name which is part of the http headers, changes to that will require a source restart. If you are talking about general metadata updates, then those kind that changes are done by the source client and don't require any configuration changes to icecast.

karl.

[m-dizzle]

what i would ideally like to happen is have the stream name stay the same all the time. this would be the stations name i suppose.

Then have the current show change via metadata update to display the current show the client is listening to.

I've never managed to get my head round how to do these metadata updates.

can you help?

[karlH]

The stream name is set by the source client, the metadata varies depending on format used, with mp3 style updates, the source client issues a url request to the server at track change (the server then inserts this metadata into the stream for listeners who request them), with vorbis the metadata is in the original stream from the source client.

karl.

[m-dizzle]

Thnks Karl,

so if i am running oddcast DSP plugin, streaming in ogg format and recording live from line in... how do i change the metadata of the stream?

[kozlov]

Here. You have some options to get it more automated.
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[m-dizzle]

chcheers mate, i shall have a little play.

one question though, i do not understand what kind of URL it expects fo the metadata?

is it some kind if text file that it reads or something? Or can you just type a string, and thats what it prints out on the players?

thanks for all the help guys.

[kozlov]

Guess it have to be text file - how could you display a binary data in player? I think program isn't *intelligent* and won't parse XML for <title /> or sth. So I guess it shall be text file only with your metadata.
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