Re: Change media information on the fly?

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

Hi,

> I am using Rygel to restream internet radio on my local network so I
> can list on at two locations at once. It works very well. However, I
> was wondering if there was some way to update the stream title
> metadata on the fly? I was hoping to somehow script the scraping of
> title information and then update Rygel accordingly. From reading the
> manual page it seems like this may be the purpose of the -i switch,
> but it doesn't seem to work as I expect so maybe I am interpreting
> it's usage incorrectly.

No, that's only used on start-up of the process. For anything more 
complex
you probably need to do some programming.

> Below is the relevant portion of my Rygel config. I have three streams
> set up but really only use the flac stream.
>
> [GstLaunch]
>  enabled=true
>  title=Marlwood
>  launch-items=mypulseaudiosink;myaudioflac;myaudiomp3
> mypulseaudiosink-title=wavStream
>  mypulseaudiosink-mime=audio/x-wav
>  mypulseaudiosink-launch=pulsesrc device=upnp.monitor ! wavpackenc
> myaudioflac-title=flacStream
>  myaudioflac-mime=audio/flac
>  myaudioflac-launch=pulsesrc device=upnp.monitor !
> audio/x-raw,channels=2 ! flacenc
> myaudiomp3-title=mp3Stream
>  myaudiomp3-mime=audio/mpeg
>  myaudiomp3-launch=pulsesrc device=upnp.monitor ! lamemp3enc
> target=quality quality=6
>
> My renderer is Kodi running under Linux.

I'm surprised Kodi works for you. What's your rygel version?