php and icecast/shoutcast

Hi good people of this mailing list/newsgroup (it does still get feeds form both sources doesn't it?), I have been dabbling with PHP for about eight months now, and have written several beginnings of sites that will be part PHP, part HTML, with some kind of Database (either flat text file or mysql), however one of the projects I have in mind is creating a public frontend to list any audio streams running as online radio stations, on a particular icecast server (Icecast can support multiple streams/mounts on the same server). The plan is to query the servers sources url from it's own admin page, i.e http://192.168.2.150:8000/admin?mode=sources This produces a page that contains details of all sources, which I imagine I could capture as an array. I would need an array for each for each station, as well as each station being part of what I would imagine would be a bigger array containing all the stations ( does the last part make as little sense to you as it does to me as I write it?) maybe a small diagram would help. Stations Rock station one Genre Admin email url mount point current track Rock station two Genre Admin email url mount point current track Rap station one Genre Admin email url mount point current track Etc for each mounted stream? Can any one give some hints, suggestions, code snippets etc that would innitially allow me to display the details via PHP, then as I develop this project allow me to, select the array elements I need such as IP address:port/mount point , to create a stream address, write this stream address into a playlist file generated by PHP, that selects a random mp3 format jingle/advert/promo (for my project/advertiser), then the live address. Can any one point me at anything vaguely like what I want to develop, or better still some code snippets that I can examine/modify? Thanks in advance. Carl Robson