“Exception in thread “main” java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
at java.lang.String.substring(Unknown Source)
at IcyStreamMeta.getArtist(IcyStreamMeta.java:36)
at MetaTest.main(MetaTest.java:21)
“

here is the code i used to display the title.
please help! thanks

private void meta(){
URL url;
try{
url = new URL(“http://rakista.com:8000/listen.mp3″);
IcyStreamMeta icy = new IcyStreamMeta(url);
TextView title = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.song_title);
String T = icy.getTitle();
title.setText(T);
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}

}

I’m using the NPR method of playing a stream. But am unable to get the cuepoint data that my stream provider is sending with the stream. If I use the method mentioned in the post then I’m getting only the StreamTitle but the metaint is not there. Can someone clarify on this please.

The trick is to make sure all your headers terminate with carriage return + line feed (\r\n) instead of just line feed (\n). Once you are going through a proxy, you can simply extract the data as it comes through, using the code in this post as a template for how to request metadata (Icy-Metadata header) and then every “metaint” interval, suck out the data, but do NOT pass that part to the underlying mediaplayer.

I wrote an app that included SHOUTcast support for Windows Mobile a while back and became an official partner. As such, I have the actual API docs and your code is spot-on.

The only problem with this workaround, and frankly, I don’t see any way around it, is that to keep your stream title up-to-date, you have to periodically (perhaps once every second) ping the station’s web server. That’s wasteful for the station and silly since even the first bit of metadata is embedded deep into the stream (whatever the interval is).

This would be less of a big deal if the Froyo update didn’t kill the “NPR method” of creating a proxy stream. Proxies just don’t seem to work on 2.2 and above. I haven’t found a workaround that is successful yet, anyway. If proxies still worked, I could just look into the stream as it went along and updated during the metadata intervals like sane media players do. I really don’t understand why Google is making something that should be so simple, so incredibly difficult.

I try this code under Froyo.