@mherger: Reading this thread, it seems to me that this StreamUrl was related to shoutcast metadata, but there was a doubt in your message. No there is no doubt anymore :).
@andyg: Talking about radio paradise, you write: "provide an XML metadata file that can be queried on each track change". Do you mean that some sort of event is sent by the server when the track change? If it's what you mean, is it true for every station? I thought that most basic old school internet radio was just an endless mp3 streamed through http with an header at the beginning and data without interruption. Anyway, if you're planning to add support for metadata information for radio through XML, I'll be glad to here about it with more details. Not that I have much time to spend on it, but I'll be glad to convert my quick and dirty "not really a plugin" code to something cleaner. Many radios (at least all the ones I'm listening to) don't support any kind of metadata. They just rely on old school web broadcasting company that record the radio stream and broadcast it through http without any value added (at least that's how it is in france!). It's just a "web pipe for the radio". At the same time, all these radios I'm listening to provide web interface with song title, album title, artist name, url to album cover, year of release. Sometimes, this data is not available (at night for example) and it's interesting to "fallback" cover with the radio logo. It would be interesting to add some sort of plugin hook for a plugin that would register a stream url / or an url mask and that would return a properly set xml data when asked for song/stream information. There is some web metadata url (very basic informations): FIP: http://players.tv-radio.com/radiofrance/metadatas/fipRSS_a_lantenne.html http://players.tv-radio.com/radiofrance/pochettes/fipRSS.html http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/fip/endirect/popprog.php?first=0 Frequence Jazz: http://www.jazzradio.fr/winradio/chansonEnCours.php TSF: http://www.tsfjazz.com/getSongInformations.php -- vrobin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vrobin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45476 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
