I just wanted to let everybody know in this forum that I'm working on a program to do what is wanted in this forum. The program will do as following:
This program is program that would sit on the user’s computer and alert them if the feeds being watching goes past a certain listener count and notification if the feed goes offline (useful for non-feed owners). The program would also allow a fast link to the feed's page / player.
One feature I will work hard on is the ability for the application to sit in your system tray (the icon area by your clock on the taskbar) and when something of interest happens it will popup a message alerting you. I will also allow the program to send an email to an email address using an email server you specify (SMTP). Another option will be that if you don't want to specify your own email server you can get a package from my server ($2 a month for email only) and my server will send the email to you. Also you can specify an email address that relays the alert as a text message but if you can't find the email address or it doesn't work I'll offer a package for text messages that are routed directly to your phone without using email addresses ($0.15 per text message).
Later this project will possibly be integrated into a full feed monitoring program for Windows that allows you to listen to feeds, record them, scan feeds, and other options.
I will start this project under beta testing and will move it to a paid application for a one time fee of $15. This fee will also give you a free license to the full feed monitoring program coming in the future. If you are a feed provider, I will lower the fee to $10. Remember that this program isn't provided by RadioReference so I can't give it away for free for being a volunteer feed provider. It is already clear that integrated functionality for feed listeners notification will be in the premium package only.
Let me know what ideas you guys have and what you guys think. Once I have something to present I will move this to a new forum and start a new thread.