[Icecast] Custom Hooks

[Philipp Schafft]

Good morning,

On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 22:56 +1300, Jake wrote:
> Couldn't you also just have a client stream locally from icecast that
> can do things on metadata change? I mean it's a bit icky but it'd
> work.

If you know any player that can do things on metadata change and works
for the given setup: sure. Why not?

The main downside of this is that it may require a little bit more setup
and requires more resources as the player will likely decode the actual
stream as well.

With best regards,

> ---- Philipp Schafft wrote ----
> 
> >Good morning,
> >
> >On Thu, 2018-11-08 at 12:45 -0500, Alex Hackney wrote:
> >> I actually got this to work this morning finally. The problem was on my 
> >> auth server.
> >
> >Perfect. :)
> >
> >
> >> I see the source auth hook being sent a lot, is there anyway to get the 
> >> current metadata in that hook?
> >
> >No. The auth happens long before the client is attached to any source.
> >In fact in Icecast 2.5.x the auth backend can even redirect the client
> >to other resources.
> >
> >
> >> Ideally, every time the source is updated, I'd like to get a hook so I 
> >> can track the songs that are being played. Alternatively, the only way I 
> >> can see doing it, is to make a get request every X seconds and watch for 
> >> the song to change.
> >
> >There currently isn't one. For 2.5.x there already is a ticket[0] for
> >that.
> >
> >What you can do is polling the status XML. You can also use the STATS
> >interface[1]. Also there is the playlist log. You can watch and follow
> >that file to see when updates are made.
> >
> >With best regards,
> >
> >
> >
> >[0] https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server/issues/2189
> >[1] Try it with: wget -qO - --method=STATS
> >http://admin:hackme@icecast.example.org:8000/
> >
> >
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Philipp Schafft (CEO/Geschäftsführer) 
Telephon: +49.3535 490 17 92

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