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Currently working with Android API to develop a radio-listening app for Penn State. While streaming music isn’t much of a problem with use of MediaPlayer API, getting stream’s metadata is little bit of a challenge. Since the SHOUTcast standard isn’t open-source there is no clear documentation on how to deal with metadata. One resource was able to explain the protocol. However, many online implementation are using a 3rd party library which isn’t suitable to drop-in into your Android project.

Google App Engine is a hosting service for your Python and, lately, Java applications. In this case I’m going to talk about Python. Since an application cannot save files it might seem hard to serve an Excel file. Thankfully a great library pyExcelerator is very flexibile and instead of saving a file you can offer [...]