{"id":852,"date":"2012-01-12T12:59:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T12:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=852"},"modified":"2012-01-17T14:37:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:37:11","slug":"icecast2-metadat-not-displaying-in-itunes-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"Icecast2 Metadata not Displaying in iTunes 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They lied, it seems that with the 10.5 update I&#8217;ve tried with, it does not request metadata for your URL and that means the metadata is never supplied. If I change the URL request to be http:\/\/&#8230;.:8000\/ then the header requesting metadata appears. I also tried here locally and it seems that the .mp3 extension is the deciding factor.<\/p>\n<p>So It looks like itunes is not sending the icy-metadata:1 header when the mountpoint has an extension which with shoutcast it never is.<\/p>\n<p>this means that it plays but no inserts are provided. You can verify this by changing your xml configuration for icecast and add an alias of<\/p>\n<pre>&lt;alias source=\"\/stream_rco\" dest=\"\/stream_rco.mp3\" \/&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>Then try requesting http:\/\/&#8230;..:8000\/stream_rco in itunes. I suspect that will then work. If the apple person is not aware what all this is about then tell them to get in touch with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They lied, it seems that with the 10.5 update I&#8217;ve tried with, it does not request metadata for your URL and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}