bbc-on-ice

bbc-on-ice is a SHOUTcast (ICY protocol) bridge for BBC radio streams. It adds metadata to the stream so that media players can display it. There are some inherent technical limitations to how accurate the information can be but it’s definitely better to have an approximate title than nothing.

Packages

Regular releases are sporadic. git master should be stable enough. You can get a package with the latest development version from Archlinux’s AUR.

Building and Running

Build dependencies: go

$ git clone https://git.janouch.name/p/bbc-on-ice.git
$ cd bbc-on-ice
$ go build

or, if you know what you’re doing:

$ go install janouch.name/bbc-on-ice@master

To run the local server:

$ ./bbc-on-ice :8000

Streams have URLs in the following form, derived from this list:

$ mpv http://localhost:8000/ww/96000/bbc_radio_one
$ mpv http://localhost:8000/uk/320000/bbc_1xtra

Socket activation

The provided bbc-on-ice.service and bbc-on-ice.socket should do, just change the ExecStart path as needed and place the files appropriately. Then:

$ systemctl enable bbc-on-ice.socket
$ systemctl start bbc-on-ice.socket

Contributing and Support

Use https://git.janouch.name/p/bbc-on-ice to report any bugs, request features, or submit pull requests. git send-email is tolerated. If you want to discuss the project, feel free to join me at ircs://irc.janouch.name, channel #dev.

Bitcoin donations are accepted at: 12r5uEWEgcHC46xd64tt3hHt9EUvYYDHe9

License

This software is released under the terms of the 0BSD license, the text of which is included within the package along with the list of authors.