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stream "now playing" info

Postby jaypea500 » 07 Jun 2024 22:07

did a search for this, but my search skills are clearly lacking.

how do I get web stream "now playing" (artist/title) info to appear on VLC desktop (win10pro)? long ago it would show up in the video window and/or the title bar at the top of the app. lately though, the "now playing" info does not appear at all. looked through all the settings and didn't find anything appropriate to solve the issue. VLC android shows the info just fine so I know the stream is sending the metadata. any ideas?

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Re: stream "now playing" info

Postby Lotesdelere » 08 Jun 2024 11:28

When you look at the menu Tools -> Media Information (or Ctrl+I) is there anything in the Now Playing field ?
And please post a link of a stream showing this behaviour.

Related similar topic:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=162084

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Re: stream "now playing" info

Postby jaypea500 » 10 Jun 2024 20:55

I wanted to post screenshots of what I see in the VLC desktop app (Tools -> Media Information shows no title/artist info) and the VLC android app (showing title/artist info), but apparently there's no way to do that from what I can see.

link to stream:
https://streaming.live365.com/a19423

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Re: stream "now playing" info

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 11 Jun 2024 09:39

The question still stands: do you see anything in the media info? If there's no now-playing entry there, then either there's no info for VLC to show, or it doesn't see it.

AFAIK, generally speaking it's still supposed to work.
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Re: stream "now playing" info

Postby Lotesdelere » 11 Jun 2024 13:12


This stream is sending:
icy-title: Gillian Welch - Elvis Presley Blues
icy-br: 128
icy-pub:
icy-description: The MUSIC People
icy-url: http://
icy-genre: TBD
icy-name: The MUSIC People
icy-metaint: 8492

It works fine with AIMP and foobar2000, but in VLC all of the fields in Media Information are empty but the Title field which returns a19423.

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Re: stream "now playing" info

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 11 Jun 2024 17:51

Use plain http, not https for ICY.
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Re: stream "now playing" info

Postby jaypea500 » 11 Jun 2024 18:22

As stated previously, no title and artist info is showing under Tools>Media Information on the desktop app. This includes the "Now Playing" field. But, no matter. I've dropped VLC desktop for AIMP, which shows me the info I wish to see without difficulty. VLC should be able to do this. I don't know when VLC was created, but in 2024, the app should be able to handle this with no problem.


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