[icecast-dev] Metadata

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

Disclaimer: I'm not a developer!

You're right - the metadata as it is right now is contained within vorbis
comments placed within the vorbis stream.  The comments can only appear in
the second vorbis packet of a vorbis stream.  The way to get around this is
to chain ogg bitstreams together.  This is explicitely allowed in the spec.
so if you need to update the metadata, conclude your ogg stream and then
start a new one, as if you had 2 ogg files and you joined them one after
the other.  This is why, if you play a stream like Kirk Reiser's egoplay
that updates every song in a player such as ogg123 that shows elapsed time,
you'll see it reset at the beginning of each song.

Egoplay 112-128 kbps - http://linux-speakup.org:9000/egoplay.ogg
Egoplay 64kbps - http://linux-speakup.org:9000/egoplay64.ogg
Egoplay 24kbps - http://linux-speakup.org:9000/egoplay24.ogg

Hope this is (a) right and (b) helpful.
Geoff.

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