Many radio stations (I suspect most) do not put cover art (url) in their streamed metadata. However, TuneIn (which used to be called RadioTime) has a facility to provide missing cover art if it is told the track details. TuneIn has their own API that they make available to broadcasters so that TuneIn can know what track is playing without them having to "tune in" to every radio stream.
So - when you play a radio station via LMS using a TuneIn link then there is a good chance that the cover art that you are seeing has come from TuneIn. Occasional cover art for a single station implies a fault somewhere ... the challenge is to find where in the chain it is broken. To verify ... go to the TuneIn web site and look at the page on their site for the radio station and see if the Now Playing information is updating even when you do not play the station. Note - TuneIn provides a downgraded service to UK listeners since a court case a couple of years ago. Search for more info. RadioFeeds does not have such a capability. So if you are playing a radio station via a URL that you find there and you see cover art then it is coming from somewhere else - e.g. the radio station is embedding the URL to the cover art within their stream. Radio.net has a similar API to TuneIn but I don't think they make much use of it - except to show the data on their web site. The other way to get cover art is for a plugin within LMS to add it. Radio X (UK) is part of the Global group. If you have the plugin "Global Player (UK)" then you can have augmented information but, from my quick test of a few minutes ago, I don't think it provides cover art. However, the plugin does provide access to podcasts and replays of shows. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland and, via the extra \"radio now playing\" plugin, allzic radio, caroline flashback, cesky rozhlas, frequence3, jukeradio, klassikradio.de, linn radio, mother earth, naim radio, nova.fr, radioblues flac, radio espace, somehow jazz, supla finland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115396 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
