[icecast] a new directory service

[Jack Moffitt]

> Again, it would be nice to be able to make this reasonably free form
> name/value pairs - one extra that has occurred to me is...
> 
> icon_url - to let directoy listings jazz up their displays by permitting
> station logos (For speed reasons it's probably nicer for the directory
> server to manage teh icons locally...)

I'm trying to think of a good way to map arbitrary pairs without
impacting searchability greatly and fitting into the backend storage.
I'm sure this will be there.  icon-url is not a bad idea.

> The Number of listeners *has* to remain in, it's up to the directory
> server to do whatever they want with it.

I disagree.  It's fundamentally a different kind of data.  It's
time-dependent.  All the other information is not.

jack.

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