Calculating ShoutCast Delay API ?

[kevinbruton]

I've written a Java RMI interface (will be releasing public soon) to Winamp 2 allow realtime control and dislay on winamp/mp3 info on any Java based platform.

Whilst this is well and good the problem I have is calculating the client delay in order for the user
to sync lyrics/time informaiton.

Is there an API for Winamp/Shoutcast to tell me this ?

Or I was thinking the following algorythm for a workaround.

Server caches Song the Time each song is started.

Users clicks a button "Calibrate" - or something when they hear a song start which sends a message to the server. The
server then looks at the cache to see when the last song was started and calculates the latency, then simply delays
the real-time feed (lyrics/time etc) by this amount every time.


Not sure how reliable that would be hence the question for an API.

Any thoughts ?