Meta data support

[tgrbin]

Most of the code is taken from here: https://code.google.com/p/audiostreamer-meta/

[anhar]

I have just cloned @tgrbin forked repository and can verify that this works. The company I'm working for is currently using Icecast for audio streams. When receiving ad metadata, the streamTitle and streamUrl parameters are sometimes empty but I get all the custom parameters. Please merge this one. And thank you @tgrbin for the pull request.

[secretfader]

This would be a great addition to the library. Like others, I'm using StreamingKit to playback audio from Icecast, and would appreciate SK eliminating the need for a custom metadata parser.

[syrakozz]

+1

[secretfader]

@tumtumtum If there isn't interest in merging this change into core, cool. Would you be willing to point anyone in this thread to an example of extracting metadata from the datastream already pulled in by SK? IMO, that would be even better than this PR.

[tumtumtum]

Sorry I forgot this PR existed when I added shoutcast streaming support to HTTPDataSource. Won't take long to add metadata support to the existing datasource. If I find time this weekend...

[syrakozz]

thank you this project is fantastic

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[secretfader]

@tumtumtum Cool. I take it that you'll be supporting any metadata, and not just StreamTitle, correct? (Because Icecast supports any metadata in key=value format. And being able to send additional data, like album=Album Title, would be very handy for my use case.)

[secretfader]

Any updates on this, @tumtumtum?

[syrakozz]

ping

[hummerpj]

Any plans on adding this feature or something similar? I like how the metadata and the updating is available via a delegate method.

Or is there a different way to expose access to this in a different way so people can write their own add-ons?

[secretfader]

FYI: AVPlayer supports reading Icecast Metadata by default, at least in iOS 8.1. I ended up using Reachability + AVPlayer for our app, and it's working pretty well so far.

StreamingKit might well be a better option, but this is a fix that you could use for now.

[s-chaudhary-2015]

Hey Guys! How can we stream video files (on iOS devices or websites) stored in a parse database? Can I use the same kit (from tumtumtum) to play video files instead of audio files? I would appreciate your reply on this. Thanks!

[secretfader]

@s-chaudhary-2015 I would look into AVPlayer since it has built in video controls. I doubt that StreamingKit would be of much help.

[diegostamigni]

I know this is very old with merge conflicts to be resolved first, but what is your plan on this feature @tumtumtum?

[tumtumtum]

Currently the master STKHttpDataSource has support for ICEcast metadata already but it doesn't expose the metadata as extensively as this PR? Maybe you can look and see if this PR is still useful @diegostamigni.

[diegostamigni]

Currently the master STKHttpDataSource has support for ICEcast metadata already but it doesn't expose the metadata as extensively as this PR? Maybe you can look and see if this PR is still useful @diegostamigni.

Yep I'll have a look.