[mythtv-users] MythStream for 0.24 or Shoutcast in MythMusic

[Steven Adeff]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:
> On 28/10/10 02:15, Robin Gilks wrote:
>> I'm very tempted to update to the release candidate for 0.24 but I'd miss
>> MythStream too much. Does anyone have it running with 0.24 yet?
>>
>> Alternatively, in r25524 I see that Shoutcast support has been added to
>> MythMusic but there is no UI to it yet. Does that mean that hacking the
>> database will allow the support for the half dozen stations I listen to
>> regularly is reasonably straight forward? An idiots guide to what to plug
>> into the database would be really appreciated!
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>
>
> Don't know about MythStream, I would guess if it worked under 0.23 then
> it shouldn't be too much trouble to get it working under 0.24 when it is
> released.
>
> The MythMusic internal player can play Shoutcast streams but there
> currently is no UI to add the streams and while the shoutcast parser can
> extract the metadata the current interface doesn't update it. I had
> hoped to get the conversion to MythUI completed for the 0.24 release and
> would have added the Ice/Shoutcast UI in the process but have been busy
> the last 2 or 3 months with another project.
>
> Hacking the DB is never advisable unless you know what you are doing but
> if you want to give it a go you have to change the filename of one of
> the tracks in music_songs to point to the playlist file sent out by the
> radio station you want to play eg http://di.fm/mp3/electro.pls is one
> the streams I tested with. IIRC you also have to set the directory_id to
> 0 as well. Then just play that track as normal. You could edit the track
> title to be more meaningful when you are searching for it in the
> playlist editor etc.
>
> Paul H.

Paul, do you know if the "shoutcast" player will be able to play any
streaming audio format that the internal player can handle or just
shoutcast specific streams?

thanks!

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