XMMS not displaying song titles for shoutcast streams

Aphex · 09-25-2003, 02:59 AM

I can play shoutcast streams just fine with XMMS but there is one small (albeit annoying) problem:
XMMS displays the station name, but not the song title!
I listen to the same stations I used to with winamp, so I am completely sure that they broadcast song titles in the metadata stream.
I checked "use metadata in playlist" option in Options>Preferences>Options tab, but still no song titles...
What am I doing wrong?

questionasker · 03-19-2004, 11:53 AM

i dont know, thats what i get too. statio name, but no song title.

but i use gnome alot and rhythmbox works well. it shows song titles, and artists.

questionasker · 03-26-2004, 07:20 AM

ok, i firgured it out.
go to the left-most tab in the preferences dialog (effect plugins, on somethin similar) select the mpg123 plugin,
go to configure,
and on the second tab it has option for "allow shoutcast/icecast song tiltes" check that box,
apply your setting,
and restart xmms.

thats what i did and now it works.

salvatore · 04-06-2004, 07:57 PM

this is exactly the information I was looking for.
thank you very much.

HCLogo · 04-30-2004, 12:02 PM

Thanks. Helped me too

roozeec · 02-02-2005, 02:05 AM

thanks for that tip, exactly what I was looking for

questionasker · 02-24-2005, 04:19 PM

glad i could help the three of you