[Icecast] perfect html player for Icacast ?

[marc at clubcapelli.com]

Good morning from France,

I probably wasn't very clear in my question in fact, sorry, I'll try to 
rephrase it :

I have a webradio that works on a independant music website, everything 
is ok on the 3 server : I have control of the Icecast server (Linux VPS) 
and the
source client (Windows server with RadioDJ + MariaDB + HeidiSQL + 
Virtual Audio Cable + MB Recaster) and the HTML webserver for the radio 
website

music tracks play fine h24
the metadata are great displayed: group name and title songs (only 
strings, extract from the file name, very simple, works good)
from these two data, the player we use will search itself for the cover 
of the song (LastFM database probably), and the name of the album and 
display all of that for the listener perfectly on the website, no 
problem
we even have display the history of the last 10 songs
this is all good and works fine, and it is very simple (i can share if 
you are interested)

but it is an assembly of two different players on the same webpage, and 
not a very professional "perfect ultime html player" which would do 
everything on a single solution
and also we sometimes have problems with accents or atypical fonts for 
some bands overseas with strange names :)

so I was wondering if you have found a solution for your own radios that 
was better than this one, a sort of perfect html player on your website 
that does all that very well and much more, for a very low price?

thank you,
Marc - France

Le 2024-01-18 00:53, Philipp Schafft a écrit :
> Good evening,
> 
> On Wed, 2024-01-17 at 21:01 +0100, marc at clubcapelli.com wrote:
>> hi friends, (sorry in advance if it is the wrong place to ask)
>> 
>> i'm seeking the perfect player for a html website running a radio
>> station feed by RadioDJ + Icecast
> 
> just to clarify this first: so you're in control of the Icecast and the
> source client, correct?
> 
> 
>> 
>> i need :
>> - good compatibility (windows, [...], android
> 
> easy
> 
>> mac, [...], ios [...]
> 
> hard
> 
> 
> 
>> - display artist & title (send by my encoder in metadata)
> 
> This is a topic that clearly depends on the above. Apple support
> basically dictates the technology, as everyone else is speaking
> everything and apple is the limiting factor.
> 
> The question here might be what quality of the metadata you need. Is it
> just a displayable string, or do you need something else?
> 
> 
>> - cover and album : search & display by the player himself (in LastFM
>> db ?) (or iTunes API?)
> 
> Ideally the album art is already in the metadata as sent by the source
> client. For everything else details matter.
> 
> 
>> - display last 5 or 10 played songs
> 
> That should not be a problem at all.
> 
> 
>> from now i use this free one here :
>> https://www.yesstreaming.com/free-html5-audio-player but i need a
>> better one + the list from RCAST.net
>> it works, but could be better, especialy some errors in accents in
>> some band names
> 
> Metadata needs to be correct on your source client to begin with.
> However specifically with legacy codecs this is often a problem as
> there is no way to communicate the character set. (This is nothing we
> can fix, we can only fix our products ;)
> 
> 
> So generally more details are needed to help with that.
> 
> 
> You said "seeking the perfect player". This sounds like you're having a
> business usecase? Or is this a scientific question?
> 
> 
> With best regards,
> 
> 
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