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Hi people,

I'm trying to move on with my drupal based radio site (Live streaming). I have an paid radio server which works with

shout cast, and I play the music through winamp(with shoutcast plugin for it). according to that, I have some basic

questions:

1. I understand that the audio module helps me upload audio nodes, which means that

it doesn't help me to stream anything, is that right?

If yes, I had an idea to program a flash streaming player and put it on "frameset", on the top of

the pagetemplate - and this will stream my audio without any stops when I'm moving from page to page.

I want to say that I want the audio begin as I upload the home page.

2. is there any better option that sombody can offer?

3. in that situation I need the "station" module only for "administrative" purposes, right?

Thanks ahead

Ori

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vm commented

correct. audio module doesn't have anything to do with "streaming".

drupal reloads an entire page, when you move from link to link. Thus you may need to add your player to a popup or you will have to get into some ajax to keep the player playing. The only other way I could see to do it which is hackish, is you throw your drupal into a frame. very 1990's

I've never used station. I do see an icecast.module in the downloads area though I've never tested it.

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or commented

anyone know about a bit of code which lets me display song&band name and album?

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vm commented

if you use getid3 and haev your files tagged properly, it will pull that information out of the audio file.

though if you want extra fields, you will have to do a hook form alter or consider another module like CCK.module to create your own audio content type, with the mediafield.module to allow for audio files to be uploaded. You can then employ the imagefield.module to allow coverart if wanted.