Shoutcast Status Lite
 

Shoutcast Status Lite 1.0.1 on your VB3.x Forum Home.

Hope it helps !!! Zack @ http://www.gzhq.net

CREDITS:
GeZuS P - for giving me a leg up on some code.
NuclioN - Request for non-pw ver

(this hack does not need a password to pull stream information.) ---
Shoutcast Status 1.01 (full w/ more options) need a password.

Changelog:
*1.0.1
Removed </span> tag in forumhome_shoutcast template.


== Install: 2-5 min ==

Collapsible Table

Server Name
Bitrate
Current Song
Users Connected
User Max
Online / Offline status

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Zerro queries added


Edit: 2 php files
Edit: 1 template
Upload: 2 images, 1 php file
Add: 2 templates

If you choose not to show any/all:

Variables used.
Here is a list of variables that can be used in your "forumhome_shoutcast". If do not wish to show data, just remove the variables.

$scdef = Default station name
$scip = IP shoutcast server
$scport = Port of shoutcast server
$song[0] = (zerro) is the current song playing.
$bitrate = Quility of the Bitrate - setting in DJ - DSP .
$currentlisteners = Current connected users.
$maxlisteners = Max users for the server.
$listenlink = 'http://$scip:$scport/listen.pls

The member's shoutcast server is offline right now. We will sit and wait and see if the info is poping up :) Tnx

what is it exactly though... does this work with Yahoo or is this something differnt.

SHOUTcast is a free-of-charge audio homesteading solution. It permits anyone on the internet to broadcast audio from their PC to listeners across the Internet or any other IP-based network (Office LANs, college campuses, etc.).

http://www.shoutcast.com

This script reads the XML stat feed from a server.

Nice hack i will use it definat for ma shoutcast stream :)

Awesome, installed this and working fine :)

Thanks. Drop us a link when your feed is up and going. :banana:

this is pretty cool I think I will add it to my whats going on section....

I made a Shoutcast hack I been using since vb 2.2.9 for vbindex. I might release it someday.. It works nicely with vb 3.x It shows current song, listener count and links to both hi and lo band streams and the last 20 songs played. here is a screenie :)

Nice, great idea on the multi bandwith.
I rem. hi and lo band streams on a pre-done script from shoucast.com years ago. It's not to hard to add another link and stream feed.

This is the "lite" ver of the hack " no password needed to gather stats and limited. The "full ver" has tons of other stuff, but needs the shoutcast Admin PW.

Collapsible Table

Server Name
Last 5 songs - max 20
DJ Name
DJ ICQ
DJ AIM
Bitrate
Current Song
Genre
Users Connected
User Max
IRC Server and Room
Online / Offline status


I did a "v3 vBa CMPS" addon many moons ago that I am updating. :tired:

for the multi stream counts I use a php script to get the listener count and it gives the count output via png using the image tags to call to the php file. hope that helps :)

ahh..really nice..do you have a date of when it will be available? i really loved to have this.

My frind, who is still using vb3.3 and is scared of updating due to the fear of loosing database elements wants to install shoutcast Full or Lite on his forum homepage. Is there a work around for vb3.3?

Shoutcast Full and Lite only make template and file edits. There are no database table/field changes.

After the upgrade just reinstall the hack - re-edit: index.php, FORUMHOME template, and make sure forumhome_shoutcast and forumhome_shoutcast_off templates are in your template set.

I think I failed to communicate properly. My friend is actually afraid of updating to the latest version of VB since he thinks that he will loose all his hacks. This is the reason I wanted to know whether it is possible to install shoutcast full or lite on vb 3.3.

Thx Harry - works great ! Nice and fast install.

Cheers
Harry :nervous:

got ya .... yes this all 4 ver. will work w/ 3.x - 3.0.7+++ :D

:up: looks good.

Yes. My users loves it. :nervous:

i have a question,

i installed this hack into my forum, there is no problem with this, everything is ok. also i installed this hack into both of my friends forum and i wrote my shoutcast servers info into scast.php files. first day everthing gone ok but second day when i start the radio in my forum it works with no problem but it doesn't show on my frinds forum, in my friends forum it still shows the radio is offline.

what should i do to solve this problem? thanx for ur answers.

We are testing virtual dj but can't get the same stream info as with winamp. How to do this?

I have not read a lot about "virtual dj". From a glance it looks to be a mixing program that makes WMA or MP3's. I read that you can use the same DSP as winamp? If this is so your in.

You need to edit the settings of the shoutcast plug-in (see attached image).
I have not installed or used "virtual dj", but the plug-in may be integrated differently.

Yep, the plugin works great with virtual dj but the only thing it does not do is auto update the song titles although the settings in the plugin are correct. I think it has something to do with the code in scast.php where a 7.html is coded.

PM/IM me a link of the shoutcast ip and port and a time when there is a Bcast. Ill look to see if the same data is passed to the server.

Also look @ the image

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/...chmentid=26525

** Make sure you have a check mark on the "Track Title/URL"
- Enable Title Updates
- Auto
- Auto

These settings are correct. Strange is that the title is updated when i fill it in manual so it sends info alright. I'll PM you when it is onair.

For the info of song title and artists to show up in car mp3 radios, portables, and the shoutcast system you will need to fill out the ID3v1 tag . If you do not, most systems give a "dash" as the feed title vs. the mp3 file name.

Another note:
ID3v2 tag can be filled out, but if it is blank of data and is enabled to send data then the feed will also show a "dash" w/o file info.

How and where can we change that???? Maybe the output can be 'catched' and put into an iframe in a html file with auto refresh :)

Sorry for the long time. I did not see you posted :ermm:. The ID3v1 tag is on each Mp3. You can access it getting the "options" of a song in your Winamp Playlist.

I USE:

What is ID3 (v1)?
The audio format MPEG layer I, layer II and layer III (MP3) has no native way of saving information about the contents, except for some simple yes/no parameters like "private", "copyrighted" and "original home" (meaning this is the original file and not a copy). A solution to this problem was introduced with the program "Studio3" by Eric Kemp alias NamkraD in 1996. By adding a small chunk of extra data in the end of the file one could get the MP3 file to carry information about the audio and not just the audio itself.

The placement of the tag, as the data was called, was probably chosen as there were little chance that it should disturb decoders. In order to make it easy to detect a fixed size of 128 bytes was chosen. The tag has the following layout (as hinted by the scheme to the right):

Song title: 30 characters
Artist: 30 characters
Album: 30 characters
Year: 4 characters
Comment: 30 characters
Genre: 1 byte


If you one sum the the size of all these fields we see that 30+30+30+4+30+1 equals 125 bytes and not 128 bytes. The missing three bytes can be found at the very beginning of the tag, before the song title. These three bytes are always "TAG" and is the identification that this is indeed a ID3 tag. The easiest way to find a ID3v1/1.1 tag is to look for the word "TAG" 128 bytes from the end of a file.

As all artists doesn't have a 30 character name it is said that if there is some bytes left after the information is entered in the field, those bytes should be fille with the binary value 0. You might also think that you cannot write that much in the genre field, being one byte big, but it is more clever than that. The byte value you enter in the genre field corresponds to a value in a predefined list. The list that Eric Kemp created had 80 entries, ranging from 0 to 79.

What is ID3v1.1?
ID3v1 may well be easy to implement for programmers, but it sure is frustrating for those with their own, creative ideas. Since the ID3v1 tag had a fixed size and no space marked "Reserved for future use", there isn't really room for that much improvement, if you want to maintain compatibility with existing software.

One who found a way out was Michael Mutschler who made a quite clever improvement on ID3v1. Since all non-filled fields must be padded with zeroed bytes its a good assumption that all ID3v1 readers will stop reading the field when they encounter a zeroed byte. If the second last byte of a field is zeroed and the last one isn't we have an extra byte to fill with information. As the comments field is to short to write anything useful in the ID3v1.1 standard declares that this field should be 28 characters, that the next byte always should be zero and that the last byte before the genre byte should contain which track on the CD this music comes from.

super mod!
i have installed it on www.a-2z.com/forum and it works beautifully!
thanks!

Lewis

plans for 3.5? this hack rocks!

Yes sir I plan on putting out updates soon.

excellent, thx Zach..

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=97500" target="_blank">Shoutcast Status Lite</a> (VB3.5)
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Changelog |
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1.5
- added 12 Phrases "scast_" prefix
- Added Windows Media Player popup
- Added Real Media Player popup
- Added Quicktime Media Player popup
- Added marquee to Curent song playing
- Added 4 images for choice of media player

Do these work in the vbulletin forums without the CMPS portal installed?
3) Shoutcast Status Lite (forum home)
4) Shoutcast Status Full (forum home)

I've been looking for a scrolling ticker or something to display "now playing" from my shoutcast server all day.

Ok, I'm not the smartest cookie.. :P
what rest do I have to install to make this work?
I believe i have shoutcast feature via my paid hosting.

Yes, I have Could someone help me alittle more, please and thank you.
I'd really like to offer this to my members, thanks

Hey :D

1) What vBulletin ver. do you have installed ?

2) Your shoutcast server is installed and running?
(a) If so, is the webserver and shoutcast server one in the same or 2 systems?
(b) If on the webserver, know this will eat tons of bandwidth.

3) Do your have a source feeding the shoutcast server for testing ?
(a) DJ sending a live feed.
(b) Server on endless loop playlist.

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What have you done and what do you have planed ?

1. 3.05
2, I believe so? http://www.metallifukinca.com:8000/
I turned it on via the control panel
Sorry I'm a total newbie at this

not to sound stupid, but I came across this section in the install notes and I'm stuck...

Make Template: |
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forumhome_shoutcast

I was able to edit the forumhome template, but have no clue howto make a template. This is what I ended up with... i think the link was add style, not add template?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2006/07/19.jpg

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2006/07/20.jpg
v3.5.4

nobody?

if you guys can just help me with this one thing (howto add/make a template), I think I will have it going. Afterall, I only have to cut&paste the html into the new template, from the installation text. Everything else has been edited/uploaded.