[mythtv-users] Playing Music Streams.

[Paul Harrison]

On 20 January 2013 12:13, Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:
> On 19/01/13 05:29, Raymond Boettcher wrote:
>>
>> I also noticed that it searches some site I never heard of before.  I
>> figured this would tap directly into Shoutcast or something.  Is the
>> shoutcast site going to be available through this interface?  Are you able
>> to build custom parsers like we use to have with MythStream from a few years
>> back?  I was really sad to see MythStream go away.  Just as I got around to
>> writing some really decent parsers for that plugin, then the plugin blew up
>> and went away (somewhere around 0.24.0 if I remember correctly, due to UI or
>> API changes I think?).
>
>
> Some time ago I was advised against using the shoutcast api because at the
> time Nullsoft or was it AOL was threatening another open source project with
> legal action because they wasn't following there TOCs. I forget the exact
> details but it wasn't considered a good idea to use there directory api to
> get a list of streams. I think Icecast was set up as an open source
> alternative to Shoutcast because of problems like this.


This is what I'm talking about: http://www.videolan.org/press/2010-1.html

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>> Raymond Boettcher
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> Paul H.
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