I think this has come up before a few times, but Icecast still doesn't have this feature. A history of metadata changes. Metadata is generally updated at a change of song so it usually provides a song played history. It was argued that a Song History could not be done reliably because metadata could be updated at any time, but perhaps it should be thought of as Metadata History instead. The last several metadata changes, up to a configurable number, could be stored and made available for viewing in a browser . Shoutcast supports this feature, and it's the only feature I've heard others saying that they miss when switching to Icecast. Regards, Ross.
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:39:44PM +1300, Ross Levis wrote:> The last several metadata changes, up to a configurable number, > could be stored and made available for viewing in a browser . > Shoutcast supports this feature, and it's the only feature I've > heard others saying that they miss when switching to Icecast.Sounds like an interesting feature...seems to me that a more robust solution would be to define a command that would receive the new metadata string(s) on its stdin. Then you could do whatever you wanted with it (including keeping a history of arbitrary and configurable length, of course). -- John ! Since this email isn't signed, you can't really tell it's from Buttery! me; I'll hopefully have my computer working normally again www.io.c! soon, but until then...gotta love catastrophic drive failure. om/~john! Mmm, rdiff-backup...
Ross Levis wrote:> I think this has come up before a few times, but Icecast still doesn't > have this feature.I use a wee Perl script to emulate this behaviour. It loads the metadata from the playlist.log file, then spews out in reverse order the last n lines for the specified mountpoint. If anyone wants to see it, just ask. I agree that having the feature built-in would be nice. Leo
All feature requests should be officially documented here : http://trac.xiph.org oddsock At 04:35 PM 1/9/2006, Leo Currie wrote:>Ross Levis wrote: >>I think this has come up before a few times, but Icecast still >>doesn't have this feature. > >I use a wee Perl script to emulate this behaviour. It loads the >metadata from the playlist.log file, then spews out in reverse order >the last n lines for the specified mountpoint. If anyone wants to >see it, just ask. > >I agree that having the feature built-in would be nice. > >Leo >_______________________________________________ >Icecast mailing list >Icecast@xiph.org >http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast