[Icecast] Best method of grabbing Now Playing metadata with PHP?

[Fred Gleason]

On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 22:05 +0100, Richard G Elen wrote:
> Can someone do me the favour of pointing us at a routine, library, 
> script or technique that will grab Now Playing metadata (Title,
> Artist, 
> Album) remotely (ie from another machine) from an Icecast 2.4.x
> server 
> reliably for logging purposes, preferably using PHP?

You may want to take a look at GlassPlayer:

	https://github.com/RadioFreeAsia/GlassPlayer

While (as the name implies) it is primarily an audio stream player,
when invoked with the '--metadata-out --json' options, GlassPlayer will
emit a JSON-formatted update each time stream metadata changes. It
derives these updates from the audio bitstream itself --i.e. no polling
of or interaction with the IceCast administrative interface whatever is
required.

For example:

*** snip snip ***
[fredg at elastigirl ~]$ glassplayer --metadata-out --json 
http://streamer.example.com:8000/SomeMountpoint
{
    "Metadata": {
        "icy-url": "stream.example.com",
        "icy-name": "WXYZ",
        "icy-genre": "Various",
        "icy-description": "WXYZ Stream"
    }
}

{
    "Metadata": {
        "StreamTitle": "Do It Again - Steely Dan"
    }
}
*** snip snip ***

Cheers!


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