[Icecast-dev] metadata sent from windows based system

[Greg J. Ogonowski]

Hello-

The best way to do title/artist update is through an ip socket.
The playout system should provide the title/artist information through an 
ip socket to the encoder that receives this information and passes it to 
the Icecast2 server.

We have an AAC/HE AAC/aacPlus encoder that works with Icecast2 servers and 
accepts title/artist metadata in this manner. (Since these features were 
recently added, they are not indicated on our website yet.)

http://www.orban.com/orban/products/stream/1010_overview.html

Test streams available upon request.

Most professional playout systems use this method.  For security, the 
encoder, or source, is configured to accept a connection from a user 
defined ip address and socket.  There is no username or password 
required.  This method provides near real-time updates, at least as fast as 
the playout system can provide the metadata.

Hope this helps.
-greg.



At 01:31 2004-10-06, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_Gergely_-_K=E9k_Duna_R=E1di=F3?= 
wrote:
>Hello Everybody,
>
>We develop a Windows based radio broadcast system for professional radios 
>and we would like to implant an interface in this system to make it able 
>to automatically update metadata of an OGG (!) stream (recorded from the 
>radio) sent to an Icecast 2.0.2 server.
>We read about the
>
>curl --user admin:hackme 
>'http://ourseverIP:8000/admin/metadata?mount=/ourstream.ogg&mode=updinfo&song=ourArtist_name+Title'
>
>What do you suggest for a method for updating metadata if we want to 
>update it from a Windows based program (which would send information from 
>our system to the listener's winamp/xmms/etc. about the actually played song).
>Should we use curl? I don't know if it is allowed to implant curl to our 
>prog (or?), or is there an other solution for Windows based progs to send 
>metadata to icecast202 with ogg stream...?
>Is there a suggested solution for our problem?
>Thanx:
>Gergely Nagy
>
>
>PS: Hello Karl, does this update also work for kh48? We could not update 
>metadata on kh48 with enabled "vorbis-updates" :
>
>curl --user admin:hackme 
>'http://ourseverIP:8000/admin/metadata?mount=/ourstream.ogg&mode=updinfo&song=ourArtist_name+Title'
>
>
>
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Greg J. Ogonowski
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