and tell me that it is possible to make icecast broadcast titles or id3 tags. I refuse to believe that you all can talk so fondly of a program that gives you the ability to make a radiostation but not tell its listeners what is on the air.. That is just too weird.. So what do YOU do to tell people what they are listening to? Arvid www.playrec.dk -for all kinds of good music ICQ# 724069 --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
There are other ways to get that information to your listeners besides making them read it from a tiny window in their media player. Take a look at some of the other broadcasting apps for icecast. With a little work, you can give them titles, and all kinds of other information. We used to do it with the Green Witch Remote, and our users always wrote us about how they liked it. We never got one comment that we should put the title information into any of hte media players. Search freshmeant and/or sourceforge for 'icecast' or 'libshout' and see what you come up with. jack. On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Arvid Gregersen wrote:> and tell me that it is possible to make icecast broadcast titles or id3 tags. I refuse to believe that you all can talk so fondly of a program that gives you the ability to make a radiostation but not tell its listeners what is on the air.. That is just too weird.. So what do YOU do to tell people what they are listening to?--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
> if you stream with MuSE (actually at the 0.6.1) you can easily specify > metatags as title, url and description from confortable input fields > embedded in the gui ( http://muse.dyne.org ). MuSE is GPL'ed software.Is that title dynamic (ie: does it change per song to list the song name)? Or is it a one time static thing? Louis --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
> and tell me that it is possible to make icecast broadcast titles or > id3 tags. I refuse to believe that you all can talk so fondly of a > program that gives you the ability to make a radiostation but not > tell its listeners what is on the air.. That is just too weird.. So > what do YOU do to tell people what they are listening to?There are three ways I know of - one is to make a cgi page that displays the current track. I store mine in a database and let the users see the past 10 tracks, and select choices to play next. Two, make sure you put id3v2 tags at the beginning of each mp3 file. Many players (but not all) will display this. XMMS will, Freeamp and mpg123 won't. Three, isn't there already a way to view metadata, through some kind of out-of-band connection? Freeamp always shows the title when it connects to the stream source (though this doesn't work if you're using an alias). Mark --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Mark Lehrer wrote:> Three, isn't there already a way to view metadata, through some kind > of out-of-band connection? Freeamp always shows the title when it > connects to the stream source (though this doesn't work if you're > using an alias).Yeah, that's the method that uses UDP to send the data. It will work depending on what source program you use (it works with IceS, IIRR). In my time playing with Icecast the biggest issue for me was finding a source program that was stable and suppotred the features I was looking for. You may want to try several and see what you like the best. Rich --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:55:59PM +0200, Arvid Gregersen wrote:> and tell me that it is possible to make icecast broadcast titles or id3 > tags. I refuse to believe that you all can talk so fondly of a program > that gives you the ability to make a radiostation but not tell its > listeners what is on the air.. That is just too weird.. So what do YOU > do to tell people what they are listening to?if you stream with MuSE (actually at the 0.6.1) you can easily specify metatags as title, url and description from confortable input fields embedded in the gui ( http://muse.dyne.org ). MuSE is GPL'ed software. as long one icecast server can eventually serve more than one radiostation i think there's really no point in complaining about a "missing feature". but maybe you're still dreaming ;) -- jrml ..//korova.dyne.org 6EEE 4FB2 2555 7ACD 8496 AB99 E2A2 93B4 6C62 4800 --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.