SAM Broadcaster & Auto DJ - Show Song info On Website?

[TechnoKelvin]

I understand, I am going to start building my site soon so I'm not 100% on all of this, that you have to code (I am a coder) SAM Broadcaster so that information can be displayed on the website (Song Requests, Last 5 Songs, etc.).

 

How does one show this in conjunction with an Auto DJ Software that will likely require different code? (I'm not sure)

 

Basically I want to show, for example, the Last 5 Played through SAM Broadcast and when I shut off my PC for the night and let Auto DJ take over for it to still be able to show the Top 5 in the same location? is this possible?

 

Thanks!

[kwdservices]

The easiest way to do this is to just have a script grab the data from the SHOUTcast server, but this has many disadvantages.

 

For example it will show station ID's unless you do some serious coding to make it only show every other song, but its not like Sam or a custom script that will just completely ignore songs that have something like ID/PSA in the tags. Also getting album covers to work can be tricky.

 

Even though you are a coder I would recommend paying someone to code something for you if you are not familiar with the SHOUTcast/Sam Broadcaster output coding interface. We can do this for you, but I am sure there are also tons of other people here in the forums that are familiar with this and could code something custom for you.

 

How we generally do this is (with our AutoDJ system at least) is use an API to grab the data and then also code something custom in Sam to send the song data to a database on our server that processes the information, and ends up outputing a PHP page with the song info and cover art on it.

[shoutcaststreaming]

Depending on who is hosting your streams, it might be easy to get done.

 

Our Auto DJ / control panel will automatically give you code to insert into your website which will list the Artist / Title / Album and Cover Art (with Auto DJ) and also the Amazon buy link. It also comes with a 1 page (plain vanilla) website that you can use.

 

The code can be customized.

 

The SAM website code (HTML or PHP) will allow for the website to display when SAM is running, as it gets the songs from the mySQL data base (for PHP) but will not reflect the songs when you are using an external Auto DJ.

 

There are many options to get done what you need.

[opt2web]

Depending on who is hosting your streams, it might be easy to get done.

 

Our Auto DJ / control panel will automatically give you code to insert into your website which will list the Artist / Title / Album and Cover Art (with Auto DJ) and also the Amazon buy link. It also comes with a 1 page (plain vanilla) website that you can use.

 

The code can be customized.

 

The SAM website code (HTML or PHP) will allow for the website to display when SAM is running, as it gets the songs from the mySQL data base (for PHP) but will not reflect the songs when you are using an external Auto DJ.

 

There are many options to get done what you need.

 

What are some other options to get this done? Or to also display other relevant data to that of the stream? for example, if we are streaming Lady Gaga, how do I get a video, or concert info to display with it, keep in mind I am NOT a coder. I am trying to put things into place for when I go tot execute this project.

 

Thanks.

[BWorld]

This is something that could be coded to read from a database. Something of this level will require some pretty good coding skills in PHP/MySQL (as it is the language SAM uses, it would be easiest to work off of that.) Many coders, including Stream101, would be able to do something like that.