Radio daemon / News: Recent posts

Hello, I finally got around to posting some news about the project. Firstly, a slightly more detailed introduction: it's serving as a `middle end' in a house radio station. The front end is a bunch of fairly specialised PHP scripts that allow users to upload MP3's to our web server. The PHP scripts dump info about the songs in a database (MySQL). The radio daemon pulls this data out of the database and plays the MP3's. The backend is the actual MP3 player; at the moment we're using multicast streaming but icecast and mpg123 work just as well.... read more