Metadata

We do not (yet) guess metadata. We read metadata

• encoded in the icyx transport layer, in short icy metadata

• encoded in the opus codec, called VorbisComments contained in OpusTags

• maintained by the ybrid server. The data is taken in parallel to audio stream injection.

AudioPlayerListener.metadataChanged( _ metadata:Metadata )

is called by the SDK on appropriate moments. The Metadata interface provides access to the following values.

.displayTitle

contains a short text describing the currently playing content to be displayed to the user. It's a shortcut of current.displayTitle.

.current

An item representing the content currently beeing played. Consider this data to be invalid if the player is stopped, because it could be out of date.

.service

Information about the service that delivers the items. A service object is always provided and the values are valid until the active service changes (see Ybrid feature swapService).

.next

If known, the next content. The item, representing the content beeing played after the current content ends.

item metadata

Access to an item struct describing the content.

• displayTitle answers the user's question 'What am I listening to?'.

The following fields are optional.

• ìdentifier a unique id representing this item. It may become mandatory in future.

• title, artist, genre contain the estalished information.

• album, version name and version of the collection (see Vorbis Comments).

• description, infoUri A text, an uri defining a page containing information coming along with the specific content.

• playbackLength The duration of the content in milliseconds. It may be inaccurate and could change during playback.

• companions An array of urls pointing to pictures coming along with the content. Still implementation specific.

• type We currently support the following ItemTypes. It may be extended in future.

public enum ItemType : String  {
    case ADVERTISEMENT = "ADVERTISEMENT"
    case COMEDY = "COMEDY"
    case JINGLE = "JINGLE"
    case MUSIC = "MUSIC"
    case NEWS = "NEWS"
    case TRAFFIC = "TRAFFIC"
    case VOICE = "VOICE"
    case WEATHER = "WEATHER"
    case UNKNOWN
}

service metadata

Data about source and delivery of audio items. A service is responsible for providing the seqeunce of items.

• identifier An id representing this service is mandatory.

• displayName User information about the source, for example the broadcaster or name of a playlist. It may be an empty string.

• iconUri Url to an icon that can represent this service in a gui. For example, the logo of the radio station.

• genre Type of content beeing provided by this service - not equal to item.genre.

• description, infoUri A text, a web site uri providing information about the service.