I am happy to announce that over 60 Internet Radio stations now benefit from exclusive metadata in Live Radio! BBC, Radio France, most FLAC and other stations are not streaming metadata natively, for various reasons. As a big BBC Radio 6 and Radio France fan, I was frustrated :angry: not to see the…

Many thanks. Great prompt service on this auxiliary service. @Mike Should Roon not adopt this capability into their product support?

Hello. I have two radiostations to add to to your metadata service. They are called ericade.radio and Best of ericade.radio. Here is the API: POST to https://api.ericade.net/radio/v2/nowplaying JSON request body: {“Token”:“eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwOlwvXC9leGFtcGxlLm9yZ…

Hello @Erik_Zalitis , I’ve added Ericade Radio and Best of Ericade Radio for you, please check if OK. As the streams are mp3 and have embedded metadata , there is no need for the Metadata Service to be involved (and as I don’t believe the M. Service can introduce a hyperlink for extra info on the n…

No problems. That works as well. But by using the API, you will get a lot of more information like images, star-ratings, artist details, next track to play and number of plays per artist and track. Here is a detail walk-through: ericade-api-v2.pdf 711.51 KB

Aha. Now I get you. That will be enough just get it showing up then.

There is a thread by @alec_eiffel who has asked for such improvements for a long time. [image] Improve Live Radio Now Playing Screen with station provided covers/pics Feature Suggestions The Now Playing screen for Live Radios is boring: it displays the station…

BBC has just changed the way it broadcasts metadata, work is in progress for a fix. EDIT: I found a workaround, let’s see if it’s stable.

Hi, Was getting this for RTE One this morning “ETIMEDOUT” message [IMG1077]

Yep, I did some updates yesterday that caused errors for a few hours, sorry for that. It’s all good now. [image]

++++100 for better now playing meta data. I just started using Eter on my iPhone and it’s such a game changer to see album art from KCRW, Thr Current, the Lake Radio, New Sounds and more.

Live Radio metadata for 100+ stations incl. BBC, Radio France, FLAC radios and more

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There is a thread by @alec_eiffel who has asked for such improvements for a long time.