Ezstream

The most visible addition in this release is the simple script ezstream-file.sh, which automatically generates a stream configuration and playlist, based on command line input. Ezstream itself has become noticeably more fault-tolerant. Lastly, a real-world example playlist script introduces advanced playlist handling on the documentation side.

A previously forgotten feature, to set a custom username when authenticating against an Icecast server, was added. Minor fixes and enhancements went into the build system, and the Windows binary release has TagLib support again.

This is a long-due maintenance and bugfix release. This includes improved handling of non-ASCII charsets in meta-data and file names, as well as several improvements to the build system. A licensing issue in the distribution tarball was resolved, and miscellaneous code cleanups were done.

A (very) long-running ezstream process sometimes
terminated without error message, making no
attempts to reconnect to the server. This has been
fixed in this release by catching and ignoring the
SIGPIPE signal.

Streaming from standard input has been temporarily
inoperative in most use cases, and this bugfix
release remedies that. It also contains
documentation improvements.