Hi,
I'm a bit confused about what is and isn't supported by LMS.
Using favourites saved from the tunein directory, I usually get a station or programme logo for the now playing screen, but on Radio Paradise I get actual covers from the songs being played.
I rarely use the Tunein versions of stations as they are rarely the good sounding streams and are often some random bitrate. I mostly use the URLs obtained from elsewhere such as the radio station's website. These will usually just show that antenna mast picture on the now playing screen, but again with Radio Paradise I get the actual song covers. Thus the picture or links to them must be in the stream metadata itself and not coming from Tunein/radiotime in the case of Radio Paradise.
For example the 192k (as opposed to Tunein 128k) for Radio Paradise:
http://www.radioparadise.com/musiclinks/rp_192.m3u
Also when I use the Tunein app on my Android phone, the same is true. Both the Tunenin version (128k) and the direct link saved as a 'custom URL' give me song covers on the phone.
Yet I never see song covers for any other station in LMS, whereas in Tunein on my phone I see them on other stations.
For example, if I add the station "Soma FM: Indie Pop Rocks!" on LMS via the Tunein directory I get just the station logo but no song covers.
However when I add it to the Tunein Android app via the Tunein directory or via a direct link as a 'custom URL', I see the song covers.
But adding the same direct URL in LMS gives me the blank antenna cover, no song covers.
This is the direct link:
http://somafm.com/indiepop130.pls
So the confusion for me is why LMS and Tunein on Android can get the covers from the Radio Paradise streams, but LMS cannot get them from the Soma FM streams and Tunein on Android can.
Glenn
I'm a bit confused about what is and isn't supported by LMS.
Using favourites saved from the tunein directory, I usually get a station or programme logo for the now playing screen, but on Radio Paradise I get actual covers from the songs being played.
I rarely use the Tunein versions of stations as they are rarely the good sounding streams and are often some random bitrate. I mostly use the URLs obtained from elsewhere such as the radio station's website. These will usually just show that antenna mast picture on the now playing screen, but again with Radio Paradise I get the actual song covers. Thus the picture or links to them must be in the stream metadata itself and not coming from Tunein/radiotime in the case of Radio Paradise.
For example the 192k (as opposed to Tunein 128k) for Radio Paradise:
http://www.radioparadise.com/musiclinks/rp_192.m3u
Also when I use the Tunein app on my Android phone, the same is true. Both the Tunenin version (128k) and the direct link saved as a 'custom URL' give me song covers on the phone.
Yet I never see song covers for any other station in LMS, whereas in Tunein on my phone I see them on other stations.
For example, if I add the station "Soma FM: Indie Pop Rocks!" on LMS via the Tunein directory I get just the station logo but no song covers.
However when I add it to the Tunein Android app via the Tunein directory or via a direct link as a 'custom URL', I see the song covers.
But adding the same direct URL in LMS gives me the blank antenna cover, no song covers.
This is the direct link:
http://somafm.com/indiepop130.pls
So the confusion for me is why LMS and Tunein on Android can get the covers from the Radio Paradise streams, but LMS cannot get them from the Soma FM streams and Tunein on Android can.
Glenn