Icecast - May 2017 - Question About Difference between SVRINFONAME and SRVINFODESCRIPTION

SRVINFONAME shows up in the title bar of a media player but does not
change automatically when it changes on the stream. If the stream is
restarted on the media player, the contents of SVRINFONAME is
refreshed. What about SRVINFODESCRIPTION? Where is it displayed in a
media player screen, and when is it refreshed in a media player if it
changes on the stream? I'm trying to solve a years-old problem on my
Icecast (2.4.3) server where the show title is sent in SRVINFONAME.
I'm wondering if I change that to SRVINFODESCRIPTION might things get
better?

If you are referring to the stream title and description, changes to them
will usually not be picked up by media players as these values are sent as
HTTP headers, which can't be resent.

On 24 May 2017, at 15:25, Steve Matzura wrote:
> SRVINFONAME shows up in the title bar of a media player but does not
> change automatically when it changes on the stream. If the stream is
> restarted on the media player, the contents of SVRINFONAME is
> refreshed. What about SRVINFODESCRIPTION? Where is it displayed in a
> media player screen, and when is it refreshed in a media player if it
> changes on the stream? I'm trying to solve a years-old problem on my
> Icecast (2.4.3) server where the show title is sent in SRVINFONAME.
> I'm wondering if I change that to SRVINFODESCRIPTION might things get
> better?
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Don't know why I didn't think of that myself. I *KNEW* they were http
headers, but you know the old saying about not seeing the forest for
the trees. :-)

On Wed, 24 May 2017 15:44:09 +0200, you wrote:
>If you are referring to the stream title and description, changes to them
>will usually not be picked up by media players as these values are sent as
>HTTP headers, which can't be resent.
>
>On 24 May 2017, at 15:25, Steve Matzura wrote:
>
>> SRVINFONAME shows up in the title bar of a media player but does not
>> change automatically when it changes on the stream. If the stream is
>> restarted on the media player, the contents of SVRINFONAME is
>> refreshed. What about SRVINFODESCRIPTION? Where is it displayed in a
>> media player screen, and when is it refreshed in a media player if it
>> changes on the stream? I'm trying to solve a years-old problem on
my
>> Icecast (2.4.3) server where the show title is sent in SRVINFONAME.
>> I'm wondering if I change that to SRVINFODESCRIPTION might things
get
>> better?
>> _______________________________________________
>> Icecast mailing list
>> Icecast at xiph.org
>> http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast
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