[Icecast] disable ID3 update

Michael Smith msmith at xiph.org
Mon Oct 10 09:10:21 UTC 2005


On 10/10/05, Balint Jacint <bjacint at kvark.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Aaron's tunequeue scripts for my radio site. (tunequeue.sf.net)
> I have ices2 to read Ogg Vorbis files and feed the icecast2 server with
> those files.
> Could someone please tell me how can I disable ID3 updating? I want all
> clients to only show the name of the radio, but don't get any of the ID
> tag information stored in the Ogg files.

ID3 isn't used by either ices2 or icecast2.

The vorbis tag data is an integral part of the file, so ices2 will
send it to icecast, if present. If you want to strip it out, you'll
need to modify the source files to remove it.

Mike



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