Now Playing Album Artwork

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Now Playing Album Artwork

mannyd209 opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

Hey guys I'm trying to get the Now Playing album artwork to pull from our station RDS. I was able to implement it in a "Recently Played" view controller that I added. See the video that I attached.
ScreenRecording

So is there a way to have the now playing pull the artwork URL from our station RDS?
If not then is there a way to have the now playing pull an image from a URL if a certain Artist or Album is currently playing? The reason for this is we have guest DJs that mix for an hour each day and we would like to show their image while they are in the mix.

Thanks guys

Urayoán Miranda · Answer 1 · Fri Feb 22 2019 07:27:03 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi. I did something similar with my app, but i use the album name to send specific tag. Before the call for the iTunes API y search for that part. If exist y look for specific art hosted in our servers. As today, ot works like a charm. In my case, the tag is AZComm, for example AZCommHandlebar. If in album art, AZComm exists I compose the url based on that (ill give you and example later when i am in the computer).

mannyd209 · Answer 2 · Fri Feb 22 2019 08:12:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sweet @urayoanm thanks and yes I would love to see how you made it work for you. Thanks Again!

Urayoán Miranda · Answer 3 · Fri Feb 22 2019 08:24:48 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

An example of what I am explaining with a clean source of Swift Radio Pro. The displayed art as 8:24PM is custom

:)

Urayoán Miranda · Answer 4 · Fri Feb 22 2019 08:40:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

BTW, i know is not the most elegant edit to that precious class, but i think is part of the learning curve 😅

mannyd209 · Answer 5 · Fri Feb 22 2019 08:47:47 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks soooo much. I'm going to give it a try tomorrow morning when I'm back in the office. I will let you know how it goes. Also would I be able to use this method of yours for multiple artworks for multiple shows? Thanks again!!!

Urayoán Miranda · Answer 6 · Fri Feb 22 2019 08:52:50 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

No problem. And yes, you can use that in anything you want. In songs, bumpers, stingers etc.

Usually, when a dj is live and is going to speak, put that in the intro, or update the metadata manually. We use it even in commercials.

Urayoán Miranda · Answer 7 · Fri Feb 22 2019 09:54:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Just an observation in your stream with the app, i did not see metadata changes displayed in the screen.

In our case, even the commercials and bumpers send metadata. Sometimes is a tweak in the automatation software.

mannyd209 · Answer 8 · Sat Feb 23 2019 04:47:43 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@urayoanm So what metadata is it looking for? The Artist, Track Title, Album or something else? I tried using your code example and it's not working for me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

mannyd209 · Answer 9 · Wed Feb 27 2019 05:20:30 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@urayoanm I'm having some issues. I think I'm not doing it correctly. Can you message me on Twitter or Reddit? I have a few questions for you if you don't mind? My username is: DJMannyD