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kareltje
11th March 2008, 11:31
Since a view days I have a Shoutcast running. It's running fine, I can listen to perfect. When I listen to it with Winamp I can see which track is playing in Windows Media Player I can not, I only see my shoutcast-name.

Is it possible to see this data in Windows Media Player? There are many scripts to get this information on a website but I can't use PHP or ASP only HTML.

I did integrate Windows Media Player in my website with http://www.streamsolutions.co.uk/embedded/ but the same problem... no metadata. Does someone have a solution?

Tnx.

Sawg
11th March 2008, 11:34
It's a limitation of Windows Media Player that SHOUTcast has no control over. Since you can't use any scripting to show it on your website either, you are pretty much out of luck. recommend your listeners use something besides WMP.

Greg_E
11th March 2008, 14:01
Unfortunately WMP does not support metadata for any stream. If you are using AAC+ you can use the Orban plugin to display metadata.

kareltje
11th March 2008, 14:25
That's true but everyone who want's to listen has to install that plugin... That's not want I want. But thanks fot the suggestion.

Greg_E
11th March 2008, 16:17
Yeah, it doesn't work out well for us either. Most people are either too stupid or too lazy to download and install the plugin.

Afterdark_b
23rd March 2008, 08:11
Originally posted by kareltje
That's true but everyone who want's to listen has to install that plugin... That's not want I want. But thanks fot the suggestion.

Hi All i am new to this but if i understand you???
you want to put a wmp in a html page and stream Shoutcast?

this code works for me on my site it took a bit of working out :D

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<object classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" id="aba_MediaPlayer0" width="345" height="105">
<param name="URL" value="http://put your ip and port number here" />
<param name="rate" value="1" />
<param name="balance" value="0" />
<param name="currentPosition" value="0" />
<param name="defaultFrame" value="" />
<param name="playCount" value="1" />
<param name="autoStart" value="-1" />
<param name="currentMarker" value="0" />
<param name="invokeURLs" value="-1" />
<param name="baseURL" value="" />
<param name="volume" value="75" />
<param name="mute" value="0" />
<param name="uiMode" value="mini" />
<param name="stretchToFit" value="0" />
<param name="windowlessVideo" value="0" />
<param name="enabled" value="-1" />
<param name="enableContextMenu" value="-1" />
<param name="fullScreen" value="0" />
<param name="SAMIStyle" value="" />
<param name="SAMILang" value="" />
<param name="SAMIFilename" value="" />
<param name="captioningID" value="" />
<param name="enableErrorDialogs" value="0" />
<param name="_cx" value="9128" />
<param name="_cy" value="2778" />
</object>
</body>
</html>
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you can edit the code with notepad and add it to your page let me know if it works for you