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...e net, the important thing for me is to be able to indicate the type of program currently going on in the radio. Such a radio can not be described by one genre (like 'techno'), as the different programs may wary (there are programs dominated by speech, there are d&b programs, punk, ethno, etc.) 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 in...

So I've been doing some research and thinking here and there about what a _good_ directory service for icecast would be like. I'd appreciate some feedback and some discussion on this topic, before I start putting a lot of effort into developing it. First off, I think getting rid of # of listeners is a must. It just creates a self-fulfilling prophecy and encourages cheating. I think the