[PHP] Mp3 Conversion, using PHP

[Simon Fredriksson]

I'm wondering if there's any crazy dude out there that would like to 
join me in making a class for PHP to convert Mp3's to Mp3Pro. Even 
better would be if it could take other formats aswell, but mainly MP3 to 
MP3Pro. There are a few reasons why I want it in PHP. One is that PHP is 
cross-platform based. I intend to use this under Windows and Linux 
primararly. Second, PHP is the programming language I know best. I can 
read and understand a whole bunch of other languages like C++ and VB, 
but I'm not really good at coding (c++) yet (and I don't want it in 
(yuck) VB, see first pointer).

This project is a part of a suit of tools to broadcast internet radio 
via ShoutCAST. As the roadmap goes, it's PHP->Shoutcast->Listener. To 
this, I intend to build a requestsystem so that my listeners can request 
and the radio will play what's in that playlist. I've made a few similar 
systems already, but I've never been really pleased with them.

This is what the road for the first was:
Web (php/apache) -> textfile -> mIRC (read textfile) -> Winamp -> 
Shoutcast -> Listener
This wasn't super-stable and pretty annoying.

Second was:
Web (php/apache) -> mysql -> php -> Winamp -> Shoutcast -> Listener.
Here, mIRC was replaced with more PHP which was a neat facelift.
The future one will be:
Web (php/apache) -> mysql/sqllite/xml/odbc (modular) -> php -> shoutcast 
(or maybe Icecast?) -> listener.

The first two parts php/apache and the way of storage are minor problems 
(just takes time to get ready). The biggest part is the 
on-the-fly-recomression of files. I can run a stream with it right now, 
but that wouldn't be very bandwidth compassionate. I want to 
bitrate-convert as the file runs.

Any comments and/or suggestions are very welcome.

//Laban

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