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

[Richard Elen]

Hi, Fred...

Many thanks for the suggestion!

If we simply want to output metadata as you describe, how much,if any, 
of the prerequisites described in
https://github.com/RadioFreeAsia/GlassPlayer/blob/master/INSTALL
can we dispense with? We are dealing with a shared hosting system for 
the host so installing the bare minimum would be a good idea (especially 
as we may have to ask the provider to do it! The streaming server is a 
dedicated machine, but the logging system we need to run this on is 
shared hosting).

Thanks,

--Richard E

On 12-Sep-19 23:49, Fred Gleason wrote:
> 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.