Re: Code confusion...playlists

Ok, so stub it out and then we'll put it in the cache and display
from the cache.

-dean

Actually, I think this is the core of the
problem; I can't currently

use the executecommand and showPlaylist method, because the
live365

info isn't an in-band metadata stream like ice/shoutcast
streams.

Instead, I have to:

1) Identify the URL in the playlist as a live365 stream

2) Call a new function which munges that URL appropriately,
grabs

the station owner's ID, and then uses that ID to
call the

proprietary javascript interface Live365 insists
upon using,

in order to get the current track info and seconds
remaining.

So I can't just assume the data will be there when the MP3 is
actually

being streamed. My choices are:

1) Grab this data whether or not the MP3 stream is running.
I.e.,

when you browse to the .pls containing the live365
stream, go

ahead and grab the data, and either

a) display it
immediately in lieu of the Title1 string,

b) cache it until "play" is actually hit,
and then display it.

2) Figure out a way to determine when the stream is playing

(right now, that indicator is showPlaylist() has
been called), and

then run out and grab the data and display it.

There would be logistical differences between Live365 streams and

shout/icecast streams; caching shout/icecast streams would require

monitoring the metadata stream on a regular basis, looking for
that

"tick" that indicates a new song is about to start, and then
grabbing

the new data.

With the Live365 streams, as soon as I grab the info, I know how
many

seconds remain in the current song, so I can just start a
countdown

timer, and grab new info when the timer hits zero.

I considered hijacking or rewriting isPLS, but that's not the
right

solution.

It would seem, however, that Live365.com is currently down, so I
can't

continue development tonight, unless it comes back up. And I've
been

wrangling with it enough that it's time for the "walk away and
come

back to it fresh" strategy.

--

Mark C. Langston

[email protected]

Systems & Network Admin

http://www.bitshift.org

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