I’m running my own radio station using Azuracast and I’ve established a mount point that Symfonium happily connects to (mp3 stream). I used the “Thumbnail URL” option to link to the current artwork that is playing and it is pulled the moment I hit play the first time. The problem is that it isn’t auto-updated like the other metadata. I understand that the Thumbnail URL is meant to serve as a thumbnail for the station and isn’t necessarily meant to be used for album art. But it works fine for album artwork, my only problem is that the artwork isn’t updating after the initial pull.
Ideally, it would be great if Symfonium allowed for an automatic refresh of the artwork so maybe you could still set a thumbnail picture with the station logo but also allow for current artwork to be shown.
Problem solved:
Internet radio stations often provide the artwork of the song that is currently playing, it would be nice to have it shown in Symfonium as well.
Brought benefits:
Many modern radios that play digital radio stations dynamically update the artist artwork. Symfonium could mimic that behavior as it already has all in place that is needed to make this happen, an album art refresh could take place the moment the mp3 info is refreshed ← that part is already happening.
The problem is that Azuracast only transmits the Artist Name and Title via ICY. The album art can be pulled from a dynamically updated URL but the album art URL isn’t transmitted by Azuracast directly.
I understand that you don’t want to mess with custom solutions though to keep the code clean. I have tested it with an mp3 stream that is outside an Azuracast setup and it’s working in Symfonium.
Since Symfonium is used as a backend for self-hosted solutions, I would have loved to use it as a backend for my radio stream as well, but I’ll resort to using the public webpage that keeps auto-updating.
This means running a second stream endpoint for the same station, but it works reliably in Symfonium. Would still love native AzuraCast support to export the artwork URL directly into stream metadata.
What I’ve noticed, though, is that when the StreamTitle is too long, Symfonium simply cuts it off, could this maybe be solved through scrolling the StreamTitle info?
For reference, if anyone else comes across this post:
Settings > Interface > Now playing screens > PLAYER STYLE > String 1 ellipsis ← Change this to Marquee