Recording Shoutcast Streams is fun too!

Recording Shoutcast Streams is fun too!

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Posted by Sean (from: 68.225.191.202) on October 24, 2003 at 06:34:50:

Try capturing a Shoutcast packet stream and recording it to disk. It's easy. You acquire the actual song titles by using the Meta-Data interval specified when the stream starts. This number tells how frequently Meta-Data is sent in a shoutcast stream. When you reach that interval you multiply that Byte Off set (Max of 255) by 16 which gives you the length of the Meta-Data(Max of 4080) Knowing the where the Meta-Data occurrs in the stream allows you to record shoutcast and seperate the songs into individual tracks ;-). Although, please only proceed with something like this when recording streams that can legally be recorded. I just finished a little progie that does this automatically. http://www.monkeyheadsoftware.com I am working on a broadcast system as well and could use some programming help.

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: Try capturing a Shoutcast packet stream and recording it to disk. It's easy. You acquire the actual song titles by using the Meta-Data interval specified when the stream starts. This number tells how frequently Meta-Data is sent in a shoutcast stream. When you reach that interval you multiply that Byte Off set (Max of 255) by 16 which gives you the length of the Meta-Data(Max of 4080) Knowing the where the Meta-Data occurrs in the stream allows you to record shoutcast and seperate the songs into individual tracks ;-). Although, please only proceed with something like this when recording streams that can legally be recorded. I just finished a little progie that does this automatically. http://www.monkeyheadsoftware.com I am working on a broadcast system as well and could use some programming help.
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