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[qwerty]

Hi!
I have a problem.
I Make a internet radio on bass.dll (Delphi XE2). It's work good, but I have a problem:
Russian symbols in the track caption are displayed by hieroglyphs

[qwerty]

var
  meta: PAnsiChar;
begin

  meta := BASS_ChannelGetTags(chan, BASS_TAG_ID3V2);
 showmessage(meta);

This is return meta='' (empty string)

[Chris]

Hi
 should be

meta := BASS_ChannelGetTags(chan, BASS_TAG_META);

take a look in the bass netradio example
Chris

[qwerty]

Certainly I so at first also have made! But hieroglyphs came if the track text is named by Russian symbols. Therefore I have tried through idv3 tags and left nothing

[qwerty]

procedure DoMeta();
var
  meta: PAnsiChar;
  p: Integer;
begin
  meta := BASS_ChannelGetTags(chan, BASS_TAG_META);
  if (meta <> nil) then
  begin
    p := Pos('StreamTitle=', String(AnsiString(meta)));
    if (p = 0) then
      Exit;
    p := p + 13;
    SendMessage(win, WM_INFO_UPDATE, 7, DWORD(PAnsiChar(AnsiString(Copy(meta, p, Pos(';', String(meta)) - p - 1)))));
  end;

I took as an example demo for radio. Changed only one line - ADD MY url on a Russian radio station. Launched - compiled and received

[Ian @ un4seen]

Shoutcast metadata (BASS_TAG_META) generally uses the ISO-8859-1 character set, which doesn't support Russian characters. For comparison, is the metadata looking correct in any other software?

If you're broadcasting the stream, and you want to include Russian characters in the metadata, perhaps you could use Icecast/OGG for it instead? That uses UTF-8 for its metadata (BASS_TAG_OGG).

[qwerty]

in AIMP Russian characters correctly displays the radio station and is written using bass audio library. thanks for the help I will try to use BASS_TAG_OGG.

[qwerty]

I'm sorry but BAS_TAG_OGG not suitable because the station is not broadcasting the tags in this format. (I am not the owner of the station). Other software correctly displays Russian characters in the title track

[Ian @ un4seen]

That's strange. From your screenshot, you appeared to be playing a stream from zaycev.fm, so I tried playing the stream from there and the title didn't seem quite right in any software that I tried (including AIMP3), but perhaps it's due to the Windows language/fonts used (English here). Looking at the stream's metadata (BASS_TAG_META) contents though, it appears to be in UTF-8 form (rather than ISO-8859-1), so you could try converting it from that to UTF-16 form for a Delphi "WideString". It looks like Delphi has a UTF8Decode function that you can use to do that.

[Chris]

I think its a Shoutcast 2 Radiostation
as Shoutcast2 you will have in Shoutcast.conf the Option to change from Latin to UTF.
So as Ian wrote you must decode the string from utf to a (wide)string
Chris