Metadata not working

[allstrike]

Hi everybody,

I read a few posts about the same problem but i didn't figured out how to resolve this.

here my version i installed "shairport-sync -V" :

3.1.7-OpenSSL-Avahi-ALSA-metadata-sysconfdir:/usr/local/etc

I configured my config file in "/usr/local/etc/shairport-sync.conf " :

metadata =
{
        enabled = "yes"; // set this to yes to get Shairport Sync to solicit metadata from the sour$
        include_cover_art = "yes"; // set to "yes" to get Shairport Sync to solicit cover art from $
        pipe_name = "/tmp/shairport-sync-metadata";
        pipe_timeout = 5000; // wait for this number of milliseconds for a blocked pipe to unblock $
//      socket_address = "226.0.0.1"; // if set to a host name or IP address, UDP packets containin$
//      socket_port = 5555; // if socket_address is set, the port to send UDP packets to
//      socket_msglength = 65000; // the maximum packet size for any UDP metadata. This will be cli$
};

I looked at my permissions "ls -l /tmp" :

total 16
drwx------ 2 pi             pi             4096 Jan  8 06:03 dhcpcd-(null)
prw-r--r-- 1 shairport-sync shairport-sync    0 Jan  8 06:03 shairport-sync-metadata
drwx------ 2 pi             pi             4096 Jan  8 06:03 ssh-lKoH7N2BFmkq
drwx------ 2 pi             pi             4096 Jan  8 06:03 ssh-sDzToy9g1TsU
drwx------ 3 root           root           4096 Jan  8 06:02 systemd-private-

so i tried to add write to shairport :

drwx------ 2 pi             pi             4096 Jan  8 06:03 dhcpcd-(null)
prw-rw-rw- 1 shairport-sync shairport-sync    0 Jan  8 06:03 shairport-sync-metadata
drwx------ 2 pi             pi             4096 Jan  8 06:03 ssh-lKoH7N2BFmkq
drwx------ 2 pi             pi             4096 Jan  8 06:03 ssh-sDzToy9g1TsU
drwx------ 3 root           root           4096 Jan  8 06:02 systemd-```

But i still have nothing in my folder, can you help me ? 

[mikebrady]

Hi there. The metadata should be written into the pipe you have specified. But it's not a file -- it doesn't store anything -- you must take the metadata out of the other end of the pipe. A trivial example would be $ cat /tmp/shairport-sync-metadata which would take anything that comes out of the pipe and direct it to the standard output. For more, look at the sample code in shairport-sync-metadata-reader. In that example, the output of the pipe is directed to the input of the metadata reader program.

[allstrike]

I installed this and effectively i receive the metadata.

I have then a problem with MMM-ShairportMetadata because i have nothing on my Screen.

Thanks for your help, i suppose you can't give me a hand for this.

[mikebrady]

Sorry — it’s beyond my expertise. It looks promising though.

[roblan]

@allstrike if you know js/node a little you could use https://www.npmjs.com/package/shairport-sync-reader there