Icecast Streaming Media Server

Anonymous · Guest

hi!

I'm using ices2's playlist/script-module as a source-client for my icecast-server.
Currently I'm working on a music database, which also includes playlist-creation and management. I wan't the users to be able to listen to their playlists (which are stored on the server) via the icecast-server. therefore i'd need to pass arguments (like playlistname or id) to the script-module, which are then forwarded to the script.

how can i accomplish this?!

greetings, Stefan

MikeS · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:22 am Post subject:

The 'program' configuration string for the playlist module ends up just being passed directly to a call to popen() - so if you quote things properly, you can add whatever arguments you want right there.

Does that do what you want?

Anonymous · Guest

no, not really... i meant something like

EvilOverlord · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject:

I had to do something vaguely similar to this; allow users to interact with ices via the web.

I wrote a python module which controlled ices (set playlist type to python in ices config) ices then send whatever I instructed to the icecast server.

To allow the python module to make the right decisions I wrote a php script which the user activated through a web server (seperate from the icecast server), this script interacted with config files for the python script and called a SIGUSR1 to the ices process so that it would skip to the next track and run the python module.

Not a beautiful solution, but it worked Very Happy