[Icecast] Logging songs played by Icecast server

[Geoff Shang]

oddsock wrote:

> I actually have a patch for icecast that adds the ability to logs metadata 
> changes.  I created a somewhat arbitrary format (pipe delimited with the 
> fields : datestamp|mountpoint|listeners|metadata) however I'm open to 
> discussion of what a proper format for this should be.  I know that 
> SoundExchange has some reporting requirements, not sure if there are other 
> organizations that require this type of thing.  I was planning on committing 
> what I had with the format I've defined, but I'd also like to get input from 
> people who would actually use this kind of thing...ideas ?

Couldn't you make the format definable, with some sensible default?

Geoff.