What player your used to show Shairport metadata?

[rogercorrea]

Please,

My shairport work fine! Thanks for its fantastic solution! But I need show the metadata of the musics in execution. What music player I can use? I'm using in my multimedia car with a display 7" and he work in background only, without nothing indicator.

Thanks for help!

[roblan]

None :) I've write my own shairport-sync metadata 'visualizer' using node (to read metadata) + socket.io + chromium.

But (as always) it depends - on what platform? But you could use eg. http://moodeaudio.org I suppose. It has built-in shairport-sync support as I can remember.

[rogercorrea]

I use in Raspbian Jessie. Do you can share your code? The Moode Audio is a good option but not work for me. I think that not exist manual install, only the image complete. My system was mounted of the zero and I need of the app to show the music that shairport it play.

[rogercorrea]

@roblan Now I can read the metadata using Python. Now I go create the web interface using Flask and HTML5 for show the music in my CarPC.

#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess
cmd = "shairport-sync-metadata-reader < /tmp/shairport-sync-metadata"
proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,shell=True)
while True:
  line = proc.stdout.readline()
  if line != '':
    wordKeys = ["Artist", "Title", "Album"]
    lineNow = line.rstrip()
    for key in wordKeys:
        if key in lineNow:
            print lineNow
  else:
    break

But my metadata reader not return all informations always. Sometimes he return the artist, sometimes album or title... I don't understand, but I'm use Spotify in iPhone with bluetooth connection at my Raspberry Pi with the Shairport.

Anyone help?

[rogercorrea]

Please, someone can help me? @mikebrady Do you can help me?

[roblan]

@rogercorrea You can use node + socket.io + https://github.com/roblan/shairport-sync-reader if you are using HTML5

[rogercorrea]

Thanks, @roblan . I used Python and work but not is always that music is listed in the socket. Can occur of the I change the music in my phone and the music not show in the sync-reader.

That's correct? Do it occur with you also?

Thanks for help.

[roblan]

When album artwork is enabled then metadata stream seems to be unstable sometimes. But without artwork everything works fine.

[NickSutton]

@rogercorrea

`#!/usr/bin/python3 import os import time import subprocess import sys

cmd = "shairport-sync-metadata-reader < /tmp/shairport-sync-metadata" proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,shell=True)

while True: line = proc.stdout.readline().decode()

full debug of pipe output

print(line)

if line != '': wordKeys = ["Artist", "Title", "Album", "pbeg", "pend"] lineNow = line.rstrip() lineNow = lineNow.replace('"', '').strip() lineNow = lineNow.replace('.', '').strip() head, sep, tail = lineNow.partition(': ') for key in wordKeys: if key in lineNow: if key == "pbeg": print ("Playing music", flush=True)
elif key == "pend": print ("Stopping music", flush=True) elif key != ("pbeg", "pend"): print (head + " = " + tail.replace(':', '').strip(), flush=True)

`

[idubnori]

Hi!

I'm developing a metadata parser which provides track information. Also, it contains the web based example app. If you use Raspberry Pi 2 / 3, there are available easy instration steps. Hope this helps.

https://github.com/idubnori/shairport-sync-trackinfo-reader

Grateful for shairport-sync and Mike!

[mikebrady]

Thanks for this contribution. Closing this as an issue. Please open a new one if necessary.