I will work on it today. At the moment only the title is displayed. However on my station the Artist is part of the title. I cannot remember if I had to change something for the artist to be part of the title. Using MPD at the moment as my Icecast DJ.
Are you broadcasting a live stream, MP3 or OGG? I do not have any artist meta data on my stastics page using ices and mp3s. It seems the artist and title are combined on mine.
Hey there, thanks for your reaction. I’m not doing a livestream, I only stream OGGs. I’ve also used a tool to tag the OGGs differently, to include the artist in the title tag. But of course that’s not the best solution, it would indeed be great if the actual artist tag could be displayed 🙂
For your info: I’m using your plugin on , where, as you can see, sometimes the artist is displayed as part of the title tag, and sometimes not.
Here is the scoop. I can modify the plugin to read the artist information from child attributes of the source mount element if it exists in your stats page which should be located here http://server:port/admin/stats. However if the element is missing from the stats page it will make no difference in the plugin. My test rig fails to contain the artist child element so I cannot test it. I ran a test ogg file though ices and the stats page failed to produce the element. Here is an example of the things I can pull from the stats page. These stats are from my icecast server with ices. You will notice <artist> </artist> is missing. My files are tagged properly too. I need the artist to pull from to correct the issue. You should see something similar on your stats page.
<source mount=”/ices”>
<audio_info>bitrate=64</audio_info>
<genre>Rock</genre>
<listener_peak>86</listener_peak>
<listeners>4</listeners>
<public>1</public>
<server_description>Get the Led Out!! Best of Led Zeppelin U.S.A.</server_description>
<server_type>audio/mpeg</server_type>
<server_url>http://galwayland.com:8080</server_url>
<slow_listeners>8735</slow_listeners>
<source_ip>127.0.0.1</source_ip>
<stream_start>Thu, 07 May 2015 11:41:36 -0400</stream_start>
<stream_start_iso8601>2015-05-07T11:41:36-0400</stream_start_iso8601>
<title>Led Zeppelin – In The Evening</title>
<total_bytes_read>4765201000</total_bytes_read>
<total_bytes_sent>17355052882</total_bytes_sent>
<user_agent>ices/0.4 libshout/2.2.2</user_agent>
<yp_currently_playing>Led Zeppelin – In The Evening</yp_currently_playing>
</source>
Thanks again. Just checked, and on my stats page the artist is displayed correctly, under source mount I find:
<source mount=”/gb.ogg”>
<artist>Pokemon Blue</artist>
<audio_bitrate>64000</audio_bitrate>
<audio_channels>2</audio_channels>
<audio_info>samplerate=44100;channels=2;quality=3%2e00</audio_info>
<audio_samplerate>44100</audio_samplerate>
<channels>2</channels>
<genre>Nintendo Gameboy chiptunes</genre>
<ice-bitrate>64</ice-bitrate>
<listener_peak>2</listener_peak>
<listeners>0</listeners>
<listenurl>http://www.classicgameradio.ovh:8000/gb.ogg</listenurl>
<max_listeners>unlimited</max_listeners>
<public>0</public>
<quality>3.00</quality>
<samplerate>44100</samplerate>
Hope this helps!
http://icecast.imux.net/viewtopic.php?t=7961&highlight=artist+metadata
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:03 am Post subject: Reply with quote
The icy metadata is not that well defined, StreamTitle is the only one used, StreamUrl is another possibility but in theory other information could be added but things like album art is not defined.
karl.
What this means is the Artist information is provided by the source client. Some source clients will not provide the Artist meta data from the tags of the music. For example the message above from karl confirms icy will only provide the StreamTitle. I will work on updating the plugin as soon as I can find a source client and content combination to provide the Artist metadata. This way if you are lucky enough to have separate artist and title metadata the plugin will display it.
