Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hey all,

Forvige me that I'm new to the Icecast community, but I've been an avid Icecast user / developer for some time now. About a year ago I ventured into writing a personal PHP project that acts as a web jukebox, streaming to an icecast server. After some development, I thought it had some potential, so I began abstracting the code to work on other environments. I named the project phpRadio and submitted it to sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpradio). Check out my personal site at http://theholbrooks.org/phpRadio/ Beware, this is being hosted on DSL with only a 384K outgoing pipe, so I can only support 2 or 3 streams at a time :-/

phpRadio, ideally, is a fully functional jukebox. It currently uses a MySQL database to store information about configured streams and the songs associated with them. The general public can view basic information about each stream, and click links to download a playlist to listen. Users can be given a login and password, and after logged in, can execute more personal functions. They can browse a station's list of songs, queue songs to play next, and add songs to their list of favorites for one-click queueing, from any browser in the world. When given the privileges by an admin, users can also fast forward to the next song, restart the current song, and much more. Without queued songs to choose from, stations revert to a random selection of songs.

Site admins can execute more advanced functions, such as creating new stations, defining parameters such as Title, Genre, etc... adding and removing songs from a station, adding and removing Icecast servers that the station broadcasts to, etc...

Because of the custom features required for the Source Client (access MySQL for queued songs and intercept process signals to RW and FF), I couldn't use ices or another client, and no Shout bindings existed at the time for PHP, I wrote my own client in perl, using the Shout-perl libraries from icecast. However, this has always given phpRadio a "bastard child" feel to it, and I was never satisfied that my PHP project required perl as well.

So, about 2 weeks ago I started writing a PHP Extension (phpShout) that wraps libshout and provides PHP functions for creating, defining, and executing an icecast stream. Writing a PHP Extension has proven to be extremely painful and slow. I have successfully gotten the code to compile against libshout, but am still working on the interface. This project has been submitted to SourceForge as well, but I am still waiting for approval.

The reason for all this is that I feel my project(s) has reached the point where it is too big for me to maintain on my own, and would love to get the community involved in its further development and featureset. I am a big proponent of Open Source software, and know that my code needs many more eyes looking at it to find bugs, squash bugs, and develop new features. Also, since I have been isolated from the Icecast community, I fear I may have reproduced work already available from other projects. I have read up on the forums for the past couple days and have seen a few requests for just this type of project, with little response, so I hope phpRadio may be found to be a useful application. If there are other PHP jukebox applications out there, or especially a PHP Shout extension already written, please let me know so I can stop re-inventing the wheel and possibly merge our ideas together! Most importantly, if you enjoy PHP (or have experience writing PHP Extensions ) and feel this is a project you would like to help develop, please let me know that too!

Sorry for the long post, but I hope to be an active member of the community in the future, and would like to inroduce myself with these projects!

[Anonymous]

w00t! Right now I am listening to music coming directly from my libshout PHP Extension! I have only implemented a small number of libshout functions so far... so far I have (PHP functions):

shout_create([host], [user], [password], [format], [protocol]) returns link_id
shout_open(link_id)
shout_send(link_id, buffer);
shout_sync(link_id)
shout_close(link_id)
shout_set_name(link_id, host)
shout_set_port(link_id, port)
shout_set_password(link_id, password)
shout_set_mount(link_id, mount)
shout_set_name(link_id, name)
shout_set_metadata(link_id, name, value)

All defaults can be set in php.ini I am still lacking a few set_ functions, all the get_ functions, and implementing the non-blocking IO. However, most of the remaining work will be copy-and-pasting my existing code. In shout_create(), the "host" parameter takes any of the following:

"host"
"host:port"
"host:port/mount"
"host/mount"
":port"
":port/mount"
"/mount"

With any unspecified coming from the defaults in php.ini I hope to have a release ready in the next week or so! Since this is all brand new, the functions can be anything we want them to be. I'd like some feedback if this looks a good, usable structure... if you'd like to see more parameters in shout_create()... or some new custom functions that wrap multiple libshout calls... etc...

[Anonymous]

I have released phpRadio-0.7. As stated in the release notes, there is no guarantee of operability, but I would love anybody interested in the project to download it, attempt an install, and (most importantly) let me know what doesn't work so I can fix it. Testers / Developers are wanted!

[Anonymous]

I think your project seems sweet. I plan on testing/working with it as soon as I get a chance for the streaming projects I'm working on.

LAter,
Robb

[Anonymous]

Hi Static, Robbt,

I'm trying out the 0.7 svn release, after some code tweaking and filling in some defaults in the database i finally got the (very nice!) interface working.
Now it seems it's connecting with my icecast2 server, but it dies with an 'Out of memory' error. Does one of you have any idea how to fix this? or how i could do some better debugging ..

my debug output:

[Anonymous]

Hi Static,

you project is defenitely what i need , i will try to test it asap and let you know

[Anonymous]

[razametal]

Hi all,

[jcr]

[quote="velk"]
i experienced the same error yesturday on debian , i try to change memory limit in the php.ini but still got the same error

so i manage to recompile php completelty but now i can't compile phpShout ;(

i get errors like

[jcr]

[razametal]

Thank you for your help.

I've another error at admin/admstation.php when trying to add a new station.

[jcr]

[Anonymous]

i finally got the phpShout client to work

i ve done with own client that interface with a mysql database and a website were users can request tracks

all works fine excepts sometimes i get nothing as the song name

i use the shout_set_metadata function like this ( i call this function one time before sending a new track to icecast)

[jcr]

I sometimes had the same error when IDs contain invalid UTF8 encoding characters. Simply retagging files correct the problem.
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[Anonymous]

are u talking about the "song" tag or filenames , id3tag

I now try to send at the same times two files of the same tracks on two differents servers :



i have one file "track1.ogg" and "track1.mp3"

(same file but with one in ogg format and other in mp3)

on the ogg icecast i get "stream" and on the other mp3 icecast i get the correct song tag , so it dont seems to be related to filenames or song tag