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Now Playing Info Template Formatting

Started by 1larryw, August 26, 2017, 03:45:32 AM

1larryw

Ok, I am in a weird situation where the preferred software of choice is the one that should not "b" named.  I chose to work with radiodj and just bout have the config down except for the now playing info.

When testing, the song info sent to the site is formatted EXACTLY how I have it tagged in the tmeplate file.  That is my issue.

If i use format of $artist$^$title$^$album$...that is exactly what shows up on the web player.

If I use:
$artist$
$title$
$album$

all i get is the artists name.

One issue is this I am not in charge of the site and the owners use the other crash prone software package so I do not know how they have it configured on there end so that theirs works properly.

I know that is is a shoutcast 1 server with a provider that uses centovacast and the website is using what i assume to be the stream providers player.

any help would be greatly appreciated as I really don't want to use the other broadcaster

FreerunMedia

Quote from: 1larryw on August 26, 2017, 03:45:32 AM
Ok, I am in a weird situation where the preferred software of choice is the one that should not "b" named.  I chose to work with radiodj and just bout have the config down except for the now playing info.

When testing, the song info sent to the site is formatted EXACTLY how I have it tagged in the tmeplate file.  That is my issue.

If i use format of $artist$^$title$^$album$...that is exactly what shows up on the web player.

If I use:
$artist$
$title$
$album$

all i get is the artists name.

One issue is this I am not in charge of the site and the owners use the other crash prone software package so I do not know how they have it configured on there end so that theirs works properly.

I know that is is a shoutcast 1 server with a provider that uses centovacast and the website is using what i assume to be the stream providers player.

any help would be greatly appreciated as I really don't want to use the other broadcaster

According to the default settings of RadioDJ it should be " $artist$ - $title$ ". In addition to that you can put it like this:

$artist$ - $title$ / $album$  ( show up like : Artist - Song / Just another album )
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1larryw

Quote from: FreerunMedia on August 26, 2017, 10:24:03 AM
According to the default settings of RadioDJ it should be " $artist$ - $title$ ". In addition to that you can put it like this:

$artist$ - $title$ / $album$  ( show up like : Artist - Song / Just another album )

Yes. I tried the default. I don't know if the issue is with the template configure or with the player. When they use the other broadcasting software, the now playing info shows up one line for each (artist, song, album.)

That is what I am trying to do but the info always has whatever symbols are in the template and just does a single line on the web player until it is forced to line wrap.

I am trying to schedule a time so I can look at whatever formatting sham B is using to try to compare.

Is there a forced line feed character?