[Icecast-dev] OPUS/FLAC Metadata

[Romain Beauxis]

Hi all,

2017-06-13 9:33 GMT-05:00 Philipp Schafft <phschafft at de.loewenfelsen.net>:
>
> Good afternoon,
>
>
> On Mon, 2017-06-12 at 13:20 -0500, Rick Keniuk wrote:
> > Marvin,
> >
> > That is the current version being used and it still has no meta data.
> > server_id     Icecast 2.4.99.1
>
> Icecast2 2.5 beta releases use 2.4.99.x as version number. So that is
> correct.
>
>
> > Testing the metadata from the admin page “Update Metadata” results in the response:
> >
> > Message: Mountpoint will not accept URL updates
> > Return Code: 1
> >
> > So I would guess it isn’t functioning yet.
>
> The metadata update interface is only for MP3 and AAC as they do not
> have native metadata support. Generally speaking the metadata is in the
> domain of the source client. So the source client needs to send them.

Not sure if that was an intended feature but I'm pretty sure that
metadata update through HTTP calls also works for ogg/vorbis in
icecast or at least did at some point.

Romain