{"id":6552,"date":"2021-01-04T18:21:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T18:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/onair2\/?post_type=ht_kb&p=6552"},"modified":"2021-01-04T18:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T18:23:50","slug":"11-2-server-type-metadata","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/onair2\/knowledge-base\/11-2-server-type-metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"11.02 Server type – Metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This setting is based on the old original ICY metadata formatting from\u00a01998<\/a><\/strong>. If you have another way to display the titles (Icecast, Shoutcast or others) you should use that one instead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ICY metadata is\u00a0a portion of the audio stream containing the song titles<\/strong>. It’s like eating a piece of cake to know the name of the cake.\u00a0You can see it as the equivalent of ID3 tags for a radio stream.<\/p>\n

It’s a very old standard that is still nowadays used from many desktop clients or apps, but on a desktop client you don’t have to care much about the CPU consumption because the stream is directly connected to the machine.<\/p>\n

Compared to modern text-based formats like icecast or Shoutcast,\u00a0the Metadata protocol is very slow and heavy,<\/strong>\u00a0adds extra weight and consumes extra bandwidth on your server.<\/p>\n

Basically, your server needs to\u00a0read small pieces of the radio stream<\/strong>\u00a0and get the titles from a chunk of the stream, passing it to the HTML to print it.<\/p>\n

Any other method, instead, is much faster and preferable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, you should consider this system only for Shoutcast V1 streams and other problematic server providers.<\/p>\n

How to use the Metadata (ICY Headers) server type to display the radio titles:<\/h2>\n

Once you have set up your audio stream URl, and made sure it can play correctly, set the Server Type to Metadata.<\/p>\n

If your radio stream contains this information, the title and artist will instantly appear in the player.<\/p>\n

No other setting is required.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If it doesn’t work, there are 2 possible reasons:<\/h4>\n
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  1. Your website hosting is blocking the connection to the streaming provider<\/li>\n
  2. Your streaming provider is not publishing the song information using the ICY metadata<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Generally speaking, this method always works, but you should avoid it if possible<\/strong>, to save CPU and bandwidth on your website hosting.<\/p>\n

    More info and troubleshooting<\/h3>\n

    This uses a\u00a0server side connection<\/strong>, which means that your web server requires to connect through the same port of your stream.<\/p>\n

    So, if your stream URL is for example<\/p>\n

    https:\/\/servername.com:1234\/stream<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Your port is \u201c1234\u201d and your website server has to allow connections on this port.\u00a0Only your hosting provider can verify this setting and eventually open the port for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    If it doesn\u2019t work<\/strong>\u00a0(no titles appear and the port is open) probably your\u00a0streaming<\/strong>\u00a0provider is not publishing the \u201cicy\u201d metadata.<\/p>\n

    Side info:<\/strong>\u00a0ICY stands for I Can Yell. ICYcast was also the name of the \u201cbeta\u201d builds of SHOUTcast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht_kb_category":[654],"ht_kb_tag":[658,559,659],"class_list":["post-6552","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-radio-streaming-channel-set-up","ht_kb_tag-icy-metadata-icycast","ht_kb_tag-streaming","ht_kb_tag-titles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/onair2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/6552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/onair2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/onair2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/onair2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/onair2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/onair2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/6552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6577,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/onair2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/6552\/revisions\/6577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/onair2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/onair2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/onair2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}