snapcast/server/streamreader
2020-03-02 21:12:27 +01:00
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airplay_stream.cpp
airplay_stream.hpp
asio_stream.hpp
base64.cpp
base64.h
file_stream.cpp
file_stream.hpp
librespot_stream.cpp Add autoplay option for librespot 2020-03-02 21:12:27 +01:00
librespot_stream.hpp
pcm_stream.cpp
pcm_stream.hpp
pipe_stream.cpp
pipe_stream.hpp
posix_stream.cpp
posix_stream.hpp
process_stream.cpp
process_stream.hpp
README.meta
stream_manager.cpp
stream_manager.hpp
stream_uri.cpp
stream_uri.hpp
tcp_stream.cpp
tcp_stream.hpp
watchdog.cpp
watchdog.hpp

Metadata tags
=============
The metatag interface will propegate anything to the client, ie no restrictions on the tags.
But, to avoid total confusion in the tag display app (like Kodi), we need some groundrules.

My suggestion is to stick with the Vorbis standard as described in:

	http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html
	https://wiki.xiph.org/Field_names

In addition we should accept unique identifiers of the stream such as Spotify track ID or 
MusicBrainz id which can be used to lookup additional information online.

Example:
	ARTIST: Pink Floyd
	ALBUM: Dark Side of the Moon
	TITLE: Money
	METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE: base64 (https://xiph.org/flac/format.html#metadata_block_picture) 


Parsing tags from streams
=========================
I've implemented parsing tags from Librespot, but, as Librespot doesn't export anything more than
track title I added a patch 'librespot-meta.patch' to apply to get artist/title.

TBH, the meta tag output from players are a mess, neither Librespot nor Shairport-sync associate
metadata with their audio interfaces, ie they don't even export metadata when the audio interface
supports it, at least Shairport-sync exports a ritch set of data. 

So, to get artist/album apply the patch to librespot and recompile, otherwise you will only get the 
track title.

Or, you can build librespot from https://github.com/frafall/librespot.git