[icecast] playlist handler questions

[Maria Wright]

I have a bad habit of re-creating the wheel, and have the feeling Im missing
some critical info, so... before I delve any deeper I wanted to throw this
out there for some clarity: Im all kinds of confused about building a
playlist handler.

Lets say I wanted on demand streaming...
(running icecast-1.3.12, ices-0.2.3 on RH7.2)

I COULD conceivably write a cgi that says:
heres a list of tunes
check which ones you want
name your stream
submit

I could then strip the songs out and put them into a playlist file.
Then on the fly write an ices.conf file and create a new mountpoint for the
new stream.
Then start up a new instance of ices using that new conffile on
www.domain.com:8000/mount.$streamname
And kick back the user an html page that says, click here for your stream...

I would presume then, that when their stream is over (playlist is played),
the stream would revert to the existing generic stream already running.
(If I remember correctly, to have 2 concurrent streams, I need 2 instances
of ices running, with two separate conf files.)

This all seems like a potentially unwieldy and unsophisticated way to go
about this, and it would still be using the built-in ices playlist handler.
The perl playlist handler skeleton in ices doesnt really give me a picture
of its potential.  Is there an existing example out there I could check out?
There was a post recently about code for a python playlist handler, but the
link was busted when I checked yesterday.

Thanks in advance.

Maria

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