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I've got a jukebox type programme streaming out through multiple Ices (0.4) sources, and an Icecast (2.2) server streaming to the listeners over the web. As a new user starts to play tracks on the jukebox, it writes a new ices.conf file (with the specific mountpoint, bitrate etc for that user) and spawns an instance of Ices to stream out that user's music. As it stands today Icecast

...via the admin interface as I really want this process to be automated and my php/xml isn't (yet) up to a dialogue with an external application - so maybe the auth by url is better. James On 4/12/2005, "Karl Heyes" <karl@xiph.org> wrote: >On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 11:11, James McCurrach wrote: > >> I could get my jukebox to modify the icecast.conf file with the details >> of each new mountpoint and write the userid/password to the htauth file, >> but is it possible to then force Icecast to re-read the config file, and >> if so how? > >you can send...

Hello, I'd like to be able to run multiple instances of Ices (2.0), each with their own playlist and streaming to different mountpoints. Although I'm relatively new to Ices and Icecast, so far I have had little trouble getting it running with two or more instances of Ices feeding off fixed playlists (files). I'd like to be able to set each instance of Ices to run with script based

"James McCurrach" <james@hawkley.net> writes: > The problem is that I can't see how to get Ices to send some form of > parameter to the perl script so that it knows which instance is calling > it and can then pull the right next track filename from the DB. There > is the pidfile option...