WMA meta question

[Sheep]

Does anyone knows how to retrieve for example the title of the current playing song in a wma live stream?

I read the one and only post about this one by ian who pointed to:
http://un4seen.com/stuff/metatest.exe

But I don't see any titles at all. Only "META: P`◄►►'"

Any help welcome!

[Sheep]

The forum skrews it up, I only see META: and 3 chars.

[Ian @ un4seen]

Are you using the WMALIVE example to generate the WMA stream? I just now tried running WMALIVE, connected with METATEST http://localhost, and then typed stuff in WMALIVE... and the meta text appeared correctly

Also, can you see the meta text from other streams, like the one mentioned in that "METATEST" thread?

[Sheep]

Hi Ian, how old are you anyway? Very cool that you help so much!

I don't see any meta data on the stream you mentioned I can't try the server thing because of many server software already running and firewalls, I tried a month ago..

Well anyway, the stream you gave me, saidf in windows media player: Virgin bla bla... And in my thing I couldn't get the string. It's a pointer to a string right? I am not sure how to convert that to a string in pascal.

Anyway, the compiled exe of you, didn't worked either. And windows mediaplayer did it good. Strange he?

[Ian @ un4seen]

So you're not generating any test WMA streams yourself, ie. with WMALIVE? I don't think firewalls/etc should affect you connecting to a server on your own pc

Anyway... can you try playing that Virgin radio stream with XMPlay. Do the song titles appear?

[Sheep]

XMplay doesn't even playes wma streams, i get connecting message for 1 min. on 3 different urls. My player and media player does them well. Well, thanks for the help anyway.

[Irrational86]

Sheep, the problem is, in WMA streams, you have to use mms://localhost for Bass and XMPlay, for Windows Media Player and others, maybe with just http:// it will work, but with bass and XMPlay you need mms://

[Sheep]

Thank you.

[Irrational86]

Did that fix it?

[Sheep]

yes that did it, but ofcourse very stupid of bass that it doesn't filter it itself. I mean, even in xmplay it stated that it can handle it http:// prefix (see open dialog). Strange enougvh the same stream with "http://" does work in my player. So I don't know what xmplay does but it's not clear at all.

Thanks again. I will always convert http:// by mms:// if it's a wma stream.