Icecast dev - Jan 2007 - Icecast protocol

Well I'm writing my own source client to automatize song selection, 
decoding/encoding and maintaning a few tasks on my website (listeners 
requests, current playing song and playlist, etc...)  I've understood 
that basically icecast protocol is http, then pure ogg or mp3 data.  
I've found a lot of usefull library (JOgg, JFlac, etc).  Thanks for the 
help, I'm digging into ezstream source code now ;)

Hi,

On 1/5/07, Ian Desc?teaux <descoteauxi@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Well I'm writing my own source client to automatize song selection,
> decoding/encoding and maintaning a few tasks on my website (listeners
> requests, current playing song and playlist, etc...)
That doesn't really motivate writing a new client from scratch. You
can do that with the perl interface of xiph's ices2 already, although
it may grow messy as you add features. I can't resist encouraging you
to take a look at liquidsoap too, which is a script language for
building audio streamers. It is high-level and gives very much
flexibility. (Also, it isn't only about playing a sequence of files
but can do audio processing: sound effects, add, fade..)

But if you want to have fun coding a source client, I understand too :)

Cheers.
-- 
David