Metadata in Windows Media Player

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

Quote:

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

------------------------------------------------------------
<!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>
------------------------------------------------------------

you can edit the code with notepad and add it to your page let me know if it works for you

11th March 2008, 11:31	#1
kareltje Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 2	Metadata in Windows Media Player 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.

11th March 2008, 11:34	#2
Sawg Forum King Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 7,451	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. \| Brought to you by ^V ^C \|

11th March 2008, 14:01	#3
Greg_E Major Dude Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: USA Posts: 1,681	Unfortunately WMP does not support metadata for any stream. If you are using AAC+ you can use the Orban plugin to display metadata. Your mileage may vary!

11th March 2008, 16:17	#5
Greg_E Major Dude Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: USA Posts: 1,681	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. Your mileage may vary!

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11th March 2008, 14:25	#4
kareltje Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 2	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.