Airplay songinfo [with short sample] : Feature request • RuneAudio Forum

by **tatoosh** » 12 Jan 2015, 20:16

Do you plan to add the shairport -M Option to include airplay infos and cover?
Some infos:

To enable the output of metadata, the -M <directory name> flag must be set to instruct shairport where to save the output. This directory must exist. A fifo named now_playing will be created, and records will be written to it when tracks are changed. The end of a set of metadata is delimited by a zero-length line. Cover filenames are relative to the cover directory. Files are not deleted.

An example::

artist=Arcade Fire
title=City With No Children
album=The Suburbs
artwork=cover-e6450a45ab900815e831434f5ee0499c.jpg
genre=Rock
comment=

If not how can i help to implement this?
Tatoosh

by **tatoosh** » 12 Jan 2015, 20:29

I am new to arch - where can i find and change the shairport config?

can i just edit this: /usr/lib/systemd/system/shairport.service ?
i'll try now

Thx Tatoosh

by **tatoosh** » 12 Jan 2015, 20:47

This solution worked:
[root@z1 shairport]# ls
cover-3372791b956da6821366a956d392b0ac.jpg cover-485dca5c932d9471d1f9941d7dc6e595.jpg cover-e0a25e508cd6bf1f0eca1eacb1b27242.jpg now_playing

but now_playing is empty ... i don't know why.

by **tatoosh** » 12 Jan 2015, 21:07

Got working by adding the -M <Folder> to the end of the configuration, first i added the arg at start.

Info (from my iPad Spotify premium) now looks:

[root@z1 shairport]# tail now_playing
artist=London Grammar
title=Strong
album=If You Wait
artwork=cover-6bb7f637c001a61f73e9c7beec787ce9.jpg
genre=
comment=

I ordered a 3.2" TFT for 10EUR in china, think it will arrive in Februar

Then i want to push the cover and infos to the TFT.

How to transfer this infos to the web interface?

by **tatoosh** » 13 Jan 2015, 10:16

I changed the metadata folder in the shairport.service like this:

Code: Select all: --meta-dir=/var/www/shairport

And with this script i will get the cover in the webfolder shairport/cover.jpg. The sing infos are parsed to json to the same folder as now_playing.json.

Now i only have to trigger the filechange of now_playing to run my shell script and build a little PHP site to show the cover on the web ui.
Maybe someone can help me so i can use the normal web ui and don't have to build my own one

Here the getInfo.sh script:

Code: Select all: #!/bin/bash FOLDER=/var/www/shairport pipe=$FOLDER/now_playing datafile=$pipe.json stringify() { a=${1%%=*} b=${1##*=} echo "\"$a\": \"$b\"" } exec 4< $pipe while read -ru 4 line ; do if [[ $line == artist* ]]; then echo '{' > $datafile elif [ -z "$line" ]; then echo '}' >> $datafile continue fi # jsonify the string data=$(stringify "$line") # for logging # echo $line # pretty print the JSON # comment is the last line of the output if [[ $line == comment* ]]; then echo " $data" >> $datafile else echo " $data," >> $datafile fi done exec 4<&- rm $FOLDER/cover.jpg FILE=$(ls -t $FOLDER/*.jpg | head -1) cp -f $FILE $FOLDER/cover.jpg echo Exiting

by **tatoosh** » 13 Jan 2015, 10:46

Here a fast php snippet to show the song info and cover after running the bash script:

http://runeaudio/shairport/index.php

Code: Select all: <?php $string = file_get_contents("now_playing.json"); $json_a=json_decode($string,true); echo '<html><head><link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/runeui.1421133757.css"></head> <body style="background: black"><div style="text-align: center;background-color: black;color: #34495E">'; foreach ($json_a as $key => $value){ if ($key == "artwork") $cover = $value; else echo $key . ':' . $value; echo '<br>'; } echo '<img src="' . $cover . '"/>'; echo '</div></body></html>'; ?>

That shows you the info like this:

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