The metadata is not expected as part of the stream but via the separate audioItem.metadata object. It's what I use currently to display a static image during streaming. It would be up to the skill to refresh that when a title change happens. To do that, the PlaybackNearlyFinished directive from Alexa could be used to trigger the Lambda function to provide the new metadata. Alexa will only send that directive to the skill when the stream is close to ending, meaning it would not work with a continuous stream. Remember, skills are event-triggered and cannot just interact with an Echo at will. So e.g. playing an album would have to map to playing a number of finite streams consecutively, where each song/track/title is a stream that ends when a new title is to be played. We cannot simply change the metadata and provide a new token from the pls file.
Amazon says "This entire object is optional. However, if you do include audioItem.metadata, it is recommended that you provide all four metadata properties (title, subtitle, art, and backgroundImage). Associate each new metadata item with a different audioItem.stream.token." Do we know how many /stream.mp3 network client players can be handled at once? Right now, the skill assumes just one (called 'Alexa') and it gets assigned to the first Echo that issues a stream command. If, on a second Echo, you say "Alexa, tell MediaServer to resume" it will also play that stream but unfortunately not in sync. For starters, it would be fine just to assume a single Echo bridge called Alexa and get that working first with metadata updating on song-change. That way, there's no need for the bridge to know the names of all a user's Echos. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
