Icecast - Sep 2006 - Access for scripting??? Displaying play history

Hey there,

I'm looking into setting up a station using icecast, and I need a basic
functionality of being able to have my site know what has been played
recently, what is playing now, and perhaps even what is coming up (which
is very optional.) I have not found a way to do this in my searches.
Perhaps I've been searching for the wrong thing. If there are any script
snippets or an API available, I'd love to check it out.

An example would be what is displayed on the top right of the following
page: http://www.radioparadise.com/

Thanks,

-Eric ;-)

Hi,

I'm not sure about what you can get from icecast. There is a textual
version of status.xsl (is it status2.xsl) which can be parsed by
javascript: you setup an XMLHTTPRequest in ascii mode, get the file,
parse it, display the song info on your page.

Now if you want the last ten songs somewhere, or more information than
just the usual metadata, I think you need cooperation from the stream
client. The streamer could update an XML description of whatever you
need, and you would then parse it using javascript from your webpage
-- this time it's real AJAX.

Dolebra? uses the liquidsoap streamer
(http://savonet.sf.net/wiki/Liquidsoap) to do that. The XML is
<http://dolebrai.net/~dbaelde/last.xml>, it is parsed periodically
from every page to get the current song info (on the top left in
<http://dolebrai.net>), and more info from this XML is displayed on
the playlist page <http://dolebrai.net/playlist>.

Feel free to ask if you need more description about this solution.

Cheers.
-- 
David