Radio NPC help

[Stryke]

I've made a Radio NPC that streams songs off the internet but how do I find the Artist and Title of the current song? I've seen server Aeon done this, so I know this is possible.

[zokemon]

Yeah, I always wondered where that info came from my self. I'm assuming your streaming from a pls file or so, right?

[Programmer]

Originally Posted by zokemon

Yeah, I always wondered where that info came from my self. I'm assuming your streaming from a pls file or so, right?

Although you cannot get the current title name off of a stream in particular, you can get the name off of the ID3 tags (if provided with the files) by using getmusictags(). This returns a list of the ID3 tags of the file in an array.

[Skyld]

Stefan posted about this some time ago:

- script functions getMusicTags() (returns array) and getMusicStatus()
(returns string) for knowing more about the currently
played music
- script event onMusicDataReceived(dataname,datavalue) for
getting the title and artist of an internet stream (the stream server
is sending this all few seconds)

PHP Code:

//#CLIENTSIDE 
function onCreated() { 
  // Retrieve the playlist via http 
  this.req = requestURL("http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=3281&file=filename.pls"); 
  catchevent(this.req,"onReceiveData","onData"); 
} 

function onData(obj) { 
  // Got the playlist data:  
  // parse the returned data for a line like "File1=http://streamlocation" 
  for (line: obj.data) { 
    if (line.starts("File1=")) { 
      // Play the real url 
      play(line.substring(6)); 
      // Also start a timer to display the music info 
      setTimer(0.1); 
      break; 
    } 
  } 
  this.req = NULL; 
} 

function onTimeout() { 
  // Display the music data 
  if (getMusicStatus()!="") 
    echo("music status: " @ getMusicStatus()); 
  if (getMusicStatus()=="ok") 
    echo("music info: " @ getMusicTags()); 
  else 
    setTimer(0.1); 
} 

function onMusicDataReceived(dataname,datavalue) { 
  // Music meta data is sent by the stream server 
  // all few seconds, dataname is either ARTIST or TITLE 
  echo("music data: " @ dataname @ " - " @ datavalue); 
} 


[Stryke]

thanks for the script Skyld but it only shows Stream - ?

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Stryke

thanks for the script Skyld but it only shows Stream - ?

It's possible the stream you're using doesn't give ID3 data ... did you try a different stream?

[zokemon]

Awesome, thanks Skyld!

I tried it with http://208.122.59.30:7274 (Tribal House stream on di.fm) and got the following:

NPC Code:

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music data: ARTIST - Alejandro Rado

music data: TITLE - Push The Desert (March 2008 pt1)

music data: StreamUrl - 

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