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I know this problem ist known. And I know, there is already a Ticket concering this problem.

But as this problem appeared already in the previous version and has not been solved yet, I'd like to give it some kind of voice.

In the 8.x.-brunch it worked fine, but since using the 9.x-branch the meta data (artist, title, album, ...) is not refreshed/reloaded during play of an audio stream. For me as an interessed user this means i have to pause and restart the stream to get the information updated. Which means that there is a gab of a second even with 32 kbit-streams! And that is imho not a "low piority" issuse.

As this problem is more than just annoying - it makes vlc unusable as a radioplayer - I hope someone could fix it. Unfortuantely I don't have any coding skills and can't do it myself. But for me it seems not too hard to handle for so. who's into it. Thanks a lot, guys! Really!

edit: If there is anything but coding I can do to help: please let me know!
edit²: Just an idea that came to my mind: What about a update button/hidden F5 function in the info window (crtl+i)?

Fixed in 1.0

And where to get that 1.0 release then?
(I downloaded the nightly build at http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/latest/ - hope, thats right)

Slowly I'm getting into this opensource release policy
Thanks for your answer, j-b

Edit: And the nighly build doen't play any streams at all. Dammit!
(It stucks forever after loading the url. Even dragging anonther mp3 file won't bring the player back...)

TO SUM IT UP: PROBLEM NOT FIXED IN 1.0

Hello,
showing metadata of audio streams may be done easily by means present in actual version.
To show name, title, and track do the following:
1) Open a video window while audio playing:
Tools / Preferences /all
Audio / Visualisations / Audio visualisations: Visualizer filter
Visualizer / Effects list: dummy (You have to type that in)
2) Display marquee in that window:
Tools / Preferences /all
Video / Subtitles/OSD / Overlays / Marquee display: on
Marquee text: Name: $N$_Title: $t$_Track: $p
(You have to type that in, for more codes look at command line help.)
Save
3) Restart VLC

To get rid of the marquee, when playing video, You may use the menu:
Tools / Extended settings... / Video effects / Vout/Overlay / Add text: off
Greetings
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