Station & artist/track info missing from audio streams

[xichael]

It would be great if we could get the station name and currently playing artist/track titles displayed for audio streams in VLC for Android. This works as expected on the desktop version.

Here's an example stream URL: http://195.154.72.66

[xichael]

Is there a better place to post this? Do the developers check this forum?

[edwardw]

http://wiki.videolan.org/Android_Report ... _not_crash

[xichael]

This is the case with any and every radio stream. There's no metadata whatsoever. Do you really need a log file? I don't believe this is a bug, but a yet to be implemented feature.

[edwardw]

If it is working fine on the desktop, pulling meta from the stream should also work fine in theory on Android.

[xichael]

But unfortunately, all we get is:

http://[stream url]
Unknown Artist - Unknown Album

I hope someone can get around to fixing this. Streaming radio is one of my primary uses for VLC.

[xichael]

Are there any plans for getting this to work? Could someone look into it? If it's an easy fix, it would be great to see it happen.

[edwardw]

Hi xiachel,

You can file a ticket on trac and we'll look at it some time.

[xichael]

Done: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/12815

Thanks, Ed. Hope you can get it working!