Feature - maybe add a way to fetch metadata from sources like Discogs

[killcha-in]

Love the app, just have a suggestion. It would be nice to be able to fetch metadata for songs with another service. This wouldn't necessarily be too useful for audio files and things, but for internet radio this would be great. Maybe also, add the ability to change the "cover" of each radio station. Thanks!

[paulijar]

We already do have the support to fetch some metadata from Last.fm, when the cloud admin has set up the connection. Also Discogs seems to provide an API which could be used for similar purpose, so it would be possible to add similar support for Discogs, too.

We don't currently have any integration from the Internet radio to the metadata from Last.fm. But in case the radio station broadcasts the artist and song name using a method we understand, it wouldn't be an impossibly difficult task to fetch and show that data, and that would be quite cool. Thanks for the suggestion.

[paulijar]

One difficulty in finding metadata for a radio song is that there is no standard in how the stations give the currently playing song. Quite many stations seem to use the format "artist - song" but I have seen also "song - artist". And in principle it could be anything else too, like "artist: song" or "song (artist)" or any other format the station happens to fancy.