Customizable listener interface

The FreeCast Swing GUI can be easily customized with the configuration.

Several parameters are configurable :

• the logo displayed in the window
• the background color used in the window
• the title of the window
• the two player icons used when the player is playing or stopped
• the tray icon

The used images can be in png, gif or jpg formats. An http url can be specified, the image will be downloaded and stored into a cache. Logo and players icons size is free. The FreeCast Swing GUI size is automaticaly adapted.

A gui section can be added to the node configuration xml file :

<freecast>
  <node> 
    <!-- ... -->
  </node>
  <gui>
    <background>#ffffff</background> 
    <logo>http://stream.acme-radio.org/freecast/logo.png</logo>
    <tray>http://stream.acme-radio.org/freecast/icon-24.png</tray>
 
    <player>
      <started>http://stream.acme-radio.org/freecast/player-started.png</started>
      <stopped>http://stream.acme-radio.org/freecast/player-stopped.png</stopped>
    </player>
  </gui>
</freecast>

<freecast>
  <node>
    <!-- ... -->
  </node>
  <gui>
    <logo>http://stream.acmee.com/freecast/logo.png</logo>
    <title>ExtraMundi</title>
    <background>#ffffff</background>
  </gui>
</freecast>

Copy and edit the freecast-node-listener.xml sample configuration and add a <gui/> section to the file.

Use the Swing GUI in command line (see the FreeCast man page) and specify your freecast node configuration :

bin/freecast-swing -config freecast-node-listener.xml