Part of the post that wordpress screwed me out of, was this software updater I saw at Google Operating System from FileHippo.

It’s kind of like `emerge -nupDv world` or `apt-get upgrade` but for windows, where there is no central repository for software. You download the 108kb exe from filehippo and it’ll automatically scan your harddrive for software you have installed, send it to filehippo and then output a page similar to below showing you what software is out-dated with links where you should download the updated version.

This is only going to work with software that FileHippo knows about and can find, but it’s still pretty useful if you like keeping your system up to date.

The next best thing I know of for windows is Google’s Google Pack,

So I’m gonna write this as I go. I’m going to setup an Eggdrop bot on my server with most of my music that will take requests from an IRC channel and put them next in queue for the Sh17Radio. After I get that to work, I’ll have it check the shoutbox(or something) for requests directly from the website.

1. Install Eggdrop. My server has Gentoo on it, but you can download the source and compile it if you want to.
   emerge -avnu eggdropI lied. Follow this guide to download and install Eggdrop.
2. Download irssi or X-Chat and connect to irc.mygeekspace.com #thesh17
3. Install the http package for eggdrop in the scripts/ folder
4. …and this eggdrop shoutcast script
5. .rehash after you configure sc.cfg and add the two .tcl scripts to your eggdrop.conf
   Now you can type !sc:song or !sc:info, etc in the IRC channel.

– At this point, that’s all there is to do for a basic shoutcast bot. It even has a request system that notifies the DJ when there’s a new request. The only thing it doesn’t do that I want it to do is actually add the request to the playlist queue –

If you join the channel, you’ll see Sh17Radio announcing each new song, who’s listening and who’s broadcasting. I’ll post Part 2 when I figure it out.