Shoutcast Status Lite

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

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

There are 4 types of this script here on vb.org:

1) CMPS: Shoutcast Status Lite
2) CMPS: Shoutcast Status Full
3) Shoutcast Status Lite (forum home)
4) Shoutcast Status Full (forum home)

This script pulls the XML data from a shoutcast server.
http://www.shoutcast.com/download/serve.phtml

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

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

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.

[NuclioN]

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.

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

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



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

[NuclioN]

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.

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

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.

[NuclioN]

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

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

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:

MP3Ext is an extension for the Windows Explorer.
It enhances it, so you can get information in many ways:

A PropertyPage is installed, where you can fully edit the ID3-Tag
An icon-handler for individual icons is included too
Tooltips, when you simply leave the mouse over the MP3-file (only with IE4.0 Active Desktop)

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The features in more detail are:
install/uninstall feature
running on Win95 / WinNT 4.0
multithreaded
easy to use GUI
editing of multiple files
ID3v2 support: this includes unlimited strings, classic support, ...
automatic generation of the ID3-tag from the filename
exporting the information in a file or clipboard
customizable Tooltips
it's giftware

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.

[lewisbeech]

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

Lewis

[dethfire]

plans for 3.5? this hack rocks!

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by dethfire

plans for 3.5? this hack rocks!

Yes sir I plan on putting out updates soon.