Syntactic sugar

buTTon NMT HDX-1000, NMT, nmt-shoutcast, Popcorn, Shoutcast, webservices

I’ve updated NMT-Shoutcast to use cookies instead of sessions. I got some emails from people having problems with their favorites after listening to a station for a while, and I noticed a lot of favorites without userID in the database. This had to be something with a timeout on sessions (which would be 20 minutes by default) so I changed the sessions into cookies (which will expire somewhere in 2030) and all should be dandy right now.
If you still have any problems, please leave a message in the reactions-section (and pls mention what kind of NMT you’re using).

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I finally redesigned & updated the NMT-Shoutcast-website!
New features:

• Favorites: store your favorite stations on NMT-Shoutcast
• Details-page: from the directory or search you’ll be taken to a detailed view of the channel (which also allows you to add the station to your favorites)
• Mixes: I published some mixes on a separate page (these mixes are not available from Shoutcast)

I also fixed some bugs and did some finetuning on filtering the stations which have multiple genres. I still want to add a personal channel feature, but that’s coming up in the next update.

Check it out : http://hdx.i-v-o.nl

Thanks to Dieter for the design!

Update 13-04 : personal stations has been added!

buTTon NMT hdx, HDX-1080, mp3-stream, Shoutcast

The NMT-shoutcast-service is doing quite well (up to 400 sessions/day) , and I’m considering to redo the design (as far as it’s a design right now;-) ) and add more features. One of the features I’d like to add is a personal favorites-list. I’d really like to know what you would like added/improved in the NMT-shoutcast-service, please leave a message in the comments-section.

Thx!

Update 06-04-2009:

Unfortunately some other work needed my attention, but I did some work on the HDX-Shoutcast-service. It’s far from release-ready and I’ll try to get more work done next weekend. Suggestions are still very welcome

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HDX-1000 Networked Media Tank

I have a HDX-1000; a Networked Media Tank.  A kind of dedicated audio/video-player with harddisk and capable of playing about anything you throw at it (matroska, DVD-iso’s, DIVX, XVid’s, mpg’s) in Full HD (1080P).  Absolutely a toy to recommend if you’re into HD-video. If you’re looking for one I can strongly recommend buying one at DivxPlayer.nl , their service is absolutely superb.

Anyway; the HDX-1000 is also capable of displaying (simple) websites, aka. webservices (in fact; the GUI is HTML-based), and it’s very good at playing Shoutcast-streams. But; there were no webservices for browsing through the Shoutcast-directory.  Ok; there’s a top10 shoutcast station-list, but with over 50000 stations this does not even scratch the surface. So.. i gave up a sundaymorning and started hammering away on a Shoutcast-directory Browser for NMT’s.

Fortunately Shoutcast has a very nice API to request all kinds of information, and it returns XML, which I became quite an expert on the last 10 years. Because I didn’t want to put a heavy load on Shoutcast’s servers by requesting data on each visit, and to keep my directory-browser at blazing speed i’ve written a sync-script which pulls all categories and stations from the Shoutcast-API and dump them into a database.  The script runs every 2 days (if I don’t forget it:)) and refreshes the stationlist in my database.

If you have a NMT-player; check out http://hdx.i-v-o.nl (the stations will only play when started from a NMT, not from your browser)

buTTon NMT, PHP HDX-1000, HDX-1080, Networked Media Tank, NMT, Shoutcast