First news

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.

There are various other features, such as playing songs from a permanent list (also held in a database) when there are no uploaded songs.

The other download is the multicast streamer we use. It's a stripped down, heavily hacked, radiod friendly version of Obsequiem (http://obs.freeamp.org). It's not a pretty hack but it works fine.

In case you followed that link and wondered "why not just use Obsequiem?" the answer is "security". From what I could see, Obs was designed to be run on a trust network and not implement any form of access control. Since radiod talks only to the database, you can implement whatever level of access control you like.