Radioplayer App

[Paul2360]

Why do the details of currently-played music not show?
'On-Air' generally shows "No Information".

Additionally, when the feature occasionally works, it often shows the wrong track e.g. the preceding or next one.

[TimmyBGood]

@Paul2360 

That's outside the control of Sky: each individual station feeding data into the app needs to populate playlist information.

I'd imagine the app owner (UK Radioplayer Ltd) could potentially link to a music identification service, but that would presumably require a commercial agreement at considerable cost.

[Paul2360]

Thanks, but why would the facility work sometimes for a station and, at other times, not at all or wrongly for the same station?

[TimmyBGood]

@Paul2360 

Given each playlist is presumably compiled manually by a producer or other staff member at the channel concerned and submitted into the Radio Player infrastructure, perhaps that's just not happening consistently.

https://support.radioplayer.co.uk/support/solutions/articles/48000824348-advanced-topic-station-scre... 

Not really my area, but I'd assume it's the 'most recent metadata' section which is relevant.

{

     "meta_data_type":"live",

     "meta_data":  

     {

         "StreamTitle":"Elbow - One day like this",

         "StreamUrl":"http://www.bbc.co.uk ",

     }

 }

I'd note that the appearance of track titles is also inconsistent on DAB radio, probably for the same reason: if the information isn't in the submitted metadata then it cannot appear on a display.