[Icecast-dev] Icecast embeddable ?

[Karl Heyes]

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On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:49, o.brunet at free.fr wrote:
> > > We only need the relaying feature, the first server would be a 'normal'
> > icecast,
> > > and the final clients would be normal clients (Winamp ...)
> >
> > updating of relays is better handled in the trunk code, triggered by the
> > HUP signal.  The API is web based, ie /admin/..... and while some
> > functionality may not be available it is improving but if something is
> > missing that you think is important then let us know.
>
> It's not a matter of completness here, but web interface, even through XML, is
> not really something very efficient if we want to embed icecast in another
> product. We need plain C/C++ calls.

what sort of API call is going to require something more efficient than
the current URL based mechanism. The most frequent of the current ones
in use is mp3 metadata updates

> We are currently looking at source code to see wether easy or not it is.

it's certainly possible, assuming licence considerations are handled

karl.