I created a plugin and am wondering if the plugin can display the song currently being played?
I have a simple text file it can retrieve from called “currentsong.txt”.
My plugin is located at http://www.domainname/test.bundle.zip
Audio stream can transmit meta data about the currently played content. I think making that work is your best bet to have artist and track names to appear in Plex and also any other audio streaming clients. That doesn’t fall under the channel development though.
I’m not familiar with Python code to get it to retrieve the ID3 tag data. But, as I’m typing, I just thought of something… I’ll go search for the code…
You don’t need to code anything in Python for that, you should configure your streaming server to transmit those.
In fact, I just tried to open your stream in Winamp and I can see that metadata are there. Plex should display those too, once you start playing it, without need to do anything else from your side.
Yea… it’s not showing in Plex… I have the express version of that DJ software … and ported to Shoutcast server. I do know between those two, the artwork/id3 tag data are not being transmitted properly between each other (If I paid for Pro version they would be talking). I have a script on my web page that reads the artwork/id3 data. hmmm… I guess to get this where I want… I should get those two talking… I’ll have to save up for the Pro version.
I don’t know about all Plex client, but I’m sure Plex Home Theater does read artist/title data from Shoutcast streams, I did a channel a way back where it worked perfectly. And your DJ software seems to be sending that data to Shoutcast indeed, else I wouldn’t have seen it in Winamp. You probably don’t have to buy a Pro version just to get ID3 tags working. Maybe it’s an issue with the Plex client you’re using, try checking some other clients to see if it works there or maybe report that issue in the forum category dedicated to your client.
I did… plex app, chrome, (4 different pc’s)… Its the Pro vs basic version of the Radio software.
