HISTORY
I run a web site which is related to music and club culture, and as such I wanted a streaming radio
station to go along with it. The problem was that all of the streaming clients I found required that
you feed it a list of all of the files, and then set it to random or whatever. I wanted something MUCH
more interactive with the web site. The general concept was to create a shoutcast compatible streamer
which could have requests input from the site, have scoring/weighting input from the site, etc. .
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Thus was born SQLshout. By using a SQL database as the playlist source, the web based application can
insert requests into the queue, and the votes placed into the database can influence song selection by
the streamer.
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