On Tuesday 18 February 2003 19:37, Deva Seetharam wrote:> i see that icecast retains song titles only when running in full debug > mode (with DEBUG_FULL defined in icecast.h). is this observation correct?Ah. You must be talking about icecast 1.x. I was talking about icecast2. What I said is not at all accurate for icecast 1.x, you should ignore it.> > how can i find out when a new song is being streamed by a source? > can i determine this accurately by examining song title > (souce.info.streamtitle)? or, is there a more reliable method? >For mp3 streaming, there is generally no way to accurately determine this with either icecast 1.x or icecast 2 (since they both do mp3 metadata using the same technique as shoutcast, which is poorly designed and insufficient for accurate determination of track boundaries). For vorbis streaming, track boundaries are clearly defined, and this information is extracted by icecast2. Mike --- >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.
Michael, thanks for your propmt replies.> > i see that icecast retains song titles only when running in full debug > > mode (with DEBUG_FULL defined in icecast.h). is this observation correct? > > Ah. You must be talking about icecast 1.x. I was talking about icecast2. What > I said is not at all accurate for icecast 1.x, you should ignore it.how do i get icecast2? when i downloaded the module icecast about a couple of weeks ago from the cvs repository at xiph.org, i got the icecast version 1.3.12. is icecast2 stable? thanks, deva> > > > > how can i find out when a new song is being streamed by a source? > > can i determine this accurately by examining song title > > (souce.info.streamtitle)? or, is there a more reliable method? > > > > For mp3 streaming, there is generally no way to accurately determine this with > either icecast 1.x or icecast 2 (since they both do mp3 metadata using the > same technique as shoutcast, which is poorly designed and insufficient for > accurate determination of track boundaries). > > For vorbis streaming, track boundaries are clearly defined, and this > information is extracted by icecast2. > > Mike > > --- >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. >--- >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 Wednesday 19 February 2003 05:10, Deva Seetharam wrote:> Michael, > thanks for your propmt replies. > > > > i see that icecast retains song titles only when running in full debug > > > mode (with DEBUG_FULL defined in icecast.h). is this observation > > > correct? > > > > Ah. You must be talking about icecast 1.x. I was talking about icecast2. > > What I said is not at all accurate for icecast 1.x, you should ignore it. > > how do i get icecast2? when i downloaded the module icecast about a couple > of weeks ago from the cvs repository at xiph.org, i got the > icecast version 1.3.12.:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.xiph.org/usr/local/cvsroot, module 'icecast'> > is icecast2 stable?Yes. Mike --- >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.