Icecast - Aug 2004 - Updating show titles (was Re: a new directory service)

> What we've found, however, is that the stream title is only sent to the
> client during initial connect.  If I recall correctly, in icecast2,
it's in
> the ice-name header.  We'd like to be able to update this for each
> broadcast on both streams.
The name of the stream is unchanging, just as it's URL should be.  Just
come up with a name that's not DJ specific.  Certainly the names of
radio stations don't change.

As I've said before, my goal is to remove time-dependent data from the
directory.  I _do_ plan to implement a ping/request in icecast 2 so that
a standalone directory client can't query a server to see what song is
playing and what the ping time is etc.  I think this, combined with
format information in the description field could be the answer that
you're looking for.
> this which the server sends on from the source when it takes over?  Since
> ogg copes just fine with chained streams, this would seem to be a must.
That changes the current song name on a chaining boundary, as well as
artist, tracknumber, etc.  That meta information is stored separately
(or will be stored separately) in icecast 2, and will be easily passed
around.

jack.

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Jack Moffitt wrote:
> The name of the stream is unchanging, just as it's URL should be.  Just
> come up with a name that's not DJ specific.  Certainly the names of
> radio stations don't change.
They don't, but this could be a big added service, to let the client 
know what he is listening to on the given station. After all, if he 
tuned in to the station, he know what station he's got. At that point, 
it's more interesting for him to know what program is on.

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If the client is using freeamp, they can see the song titles.  (They are
passed along by the server.)  Winamp and XMMS do not seem to see the meta
data from the server.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Akos Maroy" <darkeye@tyrell.hu>
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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: Updating show titles (was Re: [icecast] a new directory
service)
> Jack Moffitt wrote:
>
> > The name of the stream is unchanging, just as it's URL should be. 
Just
> > come up with a name that's not DJ specific.  Certainly the names
of
> > radio stations don't change.
>
>
> They don't, but this could be a big added service, to let the client
> know what he is listening to on the given station. After all, if he
> tuned in to the station, he know what station he's got. At that point,
> it's more interesting for him to know what program is on.
>
>
>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:27:14AM -0600, Jack Moffitt
wrote:
> 
> As I've said before, my goal is to remove time-dependent data from the
> directory.  I _do_ plan to implement a ping/request in icecast 2 so that
> a standalone directory client can't query a server to see what song is
> playing and what the ping time is etc.  I think this, combined with
This would make it possible to build some kind (very simple) of QoS into a 
hole network of icecastservers! Nice feature.


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