GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 304350
Does not display streamed artist/title for iradio/mp3 streams
Last modified: 2006-06-29 15:41:29 UTC
Version details: 1.0.1 Distribution/Version: Ubuntu Hoary Back in the days I used to use Rhythmbox to listen to the streams at soma.fm, and Rhythmbox would know what the name of each song was. Now I use Totem (GStreamer backend) this doesn't work: it stays "SomaFM Presents: Groove Salad".
Example stream: http://soma.fm/groovesalad56.pls
That'd be mp3, and the problem with this is that there's no real actual metadata being sent. Rather, mp3 stations use a horrible radio-specific text-system embedded in the mp3 stream in between frames. This is iradio. Because of the non-specificness and the non-standard code, this is not integrated in playbin. this is still pending...
The same holds true for the xine backend btw.
Ok, then we'll keep it open for both... :).
Created attachment 47834 [details] [review] possible fix This does two things: - if there's only a title, no artist, display that in the main window - change the merge mode the gstreamer backend uses to add new metadata to the tag cache, so new values take precedence over old ones. It might be nice to display the stream name too. It's available in the metadata comment field.
Applied, thanks. Re-assign to totem-xine since it needs support for this, too.
*** Bug 310256 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This works in the xine-lib backend since we stopped using gnome-vfs for http.