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I'm using the console I/O of VLC to control the streaming of music from an online source

If I stream the music from the GUI, it shows the name and artist for the current song being streamed
When I use the console with the following command
VLC -I rc http://blahblahblah:8080
it streams fine, but I can't figure out how to get the song information

if I use the info command, it gives me the name of the station and using the title command doesn't come back with any data at all

Is there a way that I can retrieve the name and artist for these songs?
thanks

Aye!

I too am having the desire to show artist and title on the receiving end of a stream. I'm streaming radio to other devices on my lan,
but all that shows on the downstream end is http://bla.bla.b.ba:8080.

Is there a configuration setting or a nifty bit of command linish to embed such data into the stream?

Thanx!