Thursday, February 11, 2010

Album Cover Art with Shoutcast

I noticed that many shoutcast sites have their track data in a common format "Artist - Song Title'. Based on this, I could use the code I use to obtain the album cover art for MP3 files where not much meta data is available. So a simple parse of the content and a call to the art lookup code and we get this.

This is from http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=7022 which is an 80's shoutcast station Sky.FM.

4 comments:

tomas said...

gnome-mplayer svn code?

Unknown said...

Kevin - I cam across your post while looking for a player that will display album art for our new ShoutCast radio station. Is this a player you designed? Do you design custom players? Email me at info@nrtradio.net -Kevin (solid name!)

Unknown said...

Hey Kevin, Im looking for a player that would display album art from my shoutcast stream. Did you design this player or did you find the code online? I been looking for weeks and havent found anything. Is this something you designed? If so, please email me at djchrisdeza AT gmail.com Thanks.

Kevin DeKorte said...

Chris,

Yes I built this code. It is part of gnome-mplayer and the code can be found at

http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/source/browse/trunk/src/support.c

Look for the function get_cover_art_url and that should help.

Kevin