Done: current track, artist, and time from Live365

Well, I now have working Perl code that will:

  * look up a broadcaster's handle from their streamID
  * Use that handle to grab the currently playing 
     - track name
     - artist
     - duration
    ...from the Live365 server.


Before I begin integrating all this into the codebase, a few things
need to happen:


 1)  We need to make sure the current CVS codebase correctly handles
     redirects (I assume this hasn't happened yet.)

 2)  We should decide on a scheme for identifying the type of stream
     (ice/shoutcast, Live365, etc.) to facilitate things like grabbing
     song and artist info from the remote server

 3)  We need to determine whether there is a method more efficient than
     just polling the remote stream server every X seconds to update 
     the song/artist info.  So far, I haven't come across anything, but
     this is my first attempt at any such code, so this may just reflect
     my own ignorance.

 4)  If there is no solution to #3 other than interval polling, we should
     provide an option to disable this feature, or allow the end-user
     to change the interval.


Once these issues are resolved, I'll massage appropriately and submit 
the appropriate patch.  Until then, our streams will go without song/
artist info...a suboptimal status quo. :)

-- 
Mark C. Langston
[email protected]
Systems & Network Admin
http://www.bitshift.org

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