Icecast Streaming Media Server

[relen]

Hi all... anyone got any ideas on this?

We rent our Icecast services and as a result we do not have access to our provider's machines.

We want to derive a "Now Playing" RSS feed to display on our programme guide web site and also possibly to tweet to a special "now playing" account.

In theory it should be possible to parse the .xsl status file from the server; I've tried this using a couple of services (eg feed43.com) but although it appears to work on their setup page it doesn't seem to work in the wider world.

Anyone have any ideas how we can generate the feed ourselves (apart from anything else the free feed services have refresh limits that are far too long for a service like this).

All useful suggestions welcome.
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[karlH]

you can craft your own webroot xsl page for this specific service that just reports the details you want in the format you want or you could use the stats interface to get notified as soon as the details are updated

eg curl -X STATS http://admin:pw@host:port/

karl.

[relen]

Thanks for the response, and forgive me for my lack of knowledge, but I could do with a bit more detail.

And bear in mind that as we rent access to the Icecast server we have no access to it apart from being able to stream and administer it.

Thanks!
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[karlH]

crafting your own would require the ability to place it in the webroot directory for icecast, whether that is possible for you I don't know as that is between you and your icecast provider.

karl.