Icecast Streaming Media Server

[johngough]

Hi folks,

Windows media player and itunes don't seem to update the metadata they are receiving from our icecast server. VLC works fine and every time a new song is played the metadata updates as expected. Media Player and itunes however only show the data for our intro file.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance

http://streamer.curiousbroadcast.com:8000/curiousbroadcast.mp3.m3u

[karlH]

The metadata you want has to be specifically requested by the player as it break mp3 specs and therefore cannot be ignored. I'm unsure if wmp is even capable of requesting that metadata but the itunes issue is because the mountpoint ends in .mp3 If the mountpoint exists without mp3 or you set up an alias (without the extension) to redirect it to the existing mountpoint then itunes will request metadata inserts. I have no idea why itunes does that, something to raise with them

karl.

[johngough]

Thanks Karl. I have no idea how to set up an alias though to resolve the issue could you suggest something?

best
John

[karlH]

Just add

<alias source="/curiousbroadcast" dest="/curiousbroadcast.mp3" />

That will be enough to allow itunes to work, it just needs the playlist for itunes to refer to http://...../curiousbroadcast and for the developers to be notified of something they have done wrong.

karl.

[johngough]

thanks Karl,

where should I add this though? in the icecast config file or on our website?

Sorry if this stupid question. I'm pretty new to this.

J

[karlH]

the alias goes in the icecast xml configuration file, like there is for / to status.xsl or whatever you have there. As for the playlist for itunes, where ever you keep that, probably the web server.

karl.