> Again, it would be nice to be able to make this reasonably free form > name/value pairs - one extra that has occurred to me is... > > icon_url - to let directoy listings jazz up their displays by permitting > station logos (For speed reasons it's probably nicer for the directory > server to manage teh icons locally...)I'm trying to think of a good way to map arbitrary pairs without impacting searchability greatly and fitting into the backend storage. I'm sure this will be there. icon-url is not a bad idea.> The Number of listeners *has* to remain in, it's up to the directory > server to do whatever they want with it.I disagree. It's fundamentally a different kind of data. It's time-dependent. All the other information is not. jack. --- >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.
Again, it would be nice to be able to make this reasonably free form name/value pairs - one extra that has occurred to me is... icon_url - to let directoy listings jazz up their displays by permitting station logos (For speed reasons it's probably nicer for the directory server to manage teh icons locally...) The Number of listeners *has* to remain in, it's up to the directory server to do whatever they want with it. -- Scott Manley (AKA Szyzyg) Streaming Media Hacker www.myplay.com --- >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.
> I see that with the ttl field in your approach, this goal could be > achieved. I could set up a system which updates the info at the start of > each program, with a ttl of the program's length. I'm only interested > now in how this could be achieved (how could I update the directory info > from cron, for example.)Please dont' abuse the fields before we've even implemented them :) How about we add a 'playlist' or 'guide' variable for a url to showtime, playlist, or whatever? That way the user has an easy way to find more information. I'm trying to keep time dependent information out of the directory. What's the purpose if it's always wrong about much of the information? jack. --- >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.