Adding pictures to task names

madbeatz

Member
Hi,

We are looking to send Task names to our website to show the presenter/playlist/advert (not the individual adverts but the task name) currently playing. Is there a way to add a picture to the task names, so it can be sent to the website/tunein etc?

Thanks

MB
 
madbeatz said:
We are looking to send Task names to our website to show the presenter/playlist/advert (not the individual adverts but the task name) currently playing. Is there a way to add a picture to the task names, so it can be sent to the website/tunein etc?
RadioBOSS can't send the picture to TuneIn - they show the picture based on artist/title information.
 
If you are using a Broadcast API provided by TuneIn, which would look something like this, http://air.radiotime.com/Playing.ashx?partnerId=&partnerKey=&id=&title=song title&artist=song artist, it can be used to send updated metadata from RadioBOSS, using the built in encoder, to TuneIn to be displayed. If not, you can request a Broadcast API from TuneIn https://cms.tunein.com/broadcasters/api/. Your Broadcast API is placed in the "HTTP GET reports" under "Reports", in the "Settings". This will send the song metadata using TuneIn's album art database. For your original programming, like talk shows or shows using station talent names you need to send TuneIn a schedule consisting of the time, program name, and any program artwork. The TuneIn update page is https://help.tunein.com/contact/update-station-HyB_TSOf . Metadata sent to other players need to be able to display the titles. For testing Winamp is a good player that displays title metadata. Do you have a station website with a player and what radio stream provider do you use?
 
Thanks for the response Northeast Philadelphia Community Radio.

So we have been using listed timetables with Tunein for many years and request Tunein to make updates when the show timetables have changed. We have a similar thing on our website and it is scripted such that for example when DJ XZY is playing at 9am, a picture of DJ XYZ is shown with his name. that works well. again, if the shows are permanently changed, then the Web Master makes the relevant updates.

What we are looking to do is something more real-time on Tunein and our website. so that if DJ XYZ cannot do his show, and DJ ABC stands in for him, then this is reflected automatically on both Tunein and our Website without manual intervention. 

As most of our shows are live, we use the 'send task name instead of track titles to the server' in the event scheduler. Hence event the radio automation kicked in, it would only be the task name and not the track titles.

Hence the object is to somehow 'tag' the task name with cover art so this can be sent to tunein and website but realize this is not technically feasible. What might be more feasible is a script on the website to match the DJ name from the nowplaying.txt file it receives and match it against a list of DJ's and their respective photos.

Has anyone ever implemented  this or similar?

Thanks
 
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