Wow, thanks Mark. I will give that a try. It fits well into my system too. Bill On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Mark Turner <jmarkturner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > This would be better handled at the streaming server level (icecast or > shoutcast). You can change the metadata being streamed out using curl. > Here's one that works for Icecast: > > curl -u admin -s > "http://<YOURICECASTSERVER>:8000/admin/metadata?mount=/<YOURMOUNT>&mode=updinfo&song=El+Paso+Police-Southeast+District" > > ...where the items in <CAPS> need to match your setup. Good luck! > > Cheers, > Mark > > > On 06/19/2014 12:00 PM, Bill Waggoner wrote: >> >> I have a Darkice/icecast2 server setup streaming the output of my >> scanner. It captures and streams the local fire and police >> transmissions. >> >> But the scanner has many channels that it captures and I would like to >> inject the channel name into the stream when a particular channel is >> received. >> >> Is that at all possible with Darkice? I have a separate program that >> monitors the scanner which does know what the channel name is that is >> received so I have the information. I'm just not sure how to inject >> that into the stream. And, If I could, how it would be displayed. >> >> Any thoughts would be appreciated. >> >> Bill W >> > >