[PROBLEM] Queue item after playing changes name to "2"

[datside]

As soon as I switch to radio item, its name goes away and replaces with "2" like on screenshot:
   
So I newer know which station am I listening to

[TheOldPresbyope]

As soon as I switch to radio item, its name goes away and replaces with "2" like on screenshot:

So I newer know which station am I listening to

That's what the station declares it is.

You don't say which this station is but here, for, example, is what I get from one of the URLs you did list

Code:

rho@moodey:/var/lib/mpd/playlists $ curl -I http://79.111.119.111:8000/acid
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: audio/aacp
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:13:45 GMT
icy-br:320
icy-genre:Misc
icy-name:2
icy-notice1:<BR>This stream requires <a href="http://www.winamp.com/">Winamp</a><BR>
icy-notice2:SHOUTcast Distributed Network Audio Server/win32 v1.9.8<BR>
icy-pub:0
Server: Icecast 2.4.0-kh4
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, Accept, X-Requested-With, Content-Type
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, OPTIONS, HEAD
Connection: Close
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT

I tried to highlight the icy-name: entry but the forum software doesn't allow me to do that in a code block.

By way of comparison, the first GrooveSalad stream I checked responds

Code:

...
icy-genre: Techno Ambient
icy-name: Groove Salad [SomaFM]
...

Not every Internet radio station uses an Icecast server, but those who do should pay attention to its setup.

As an aside, a lot of specs like icecast and m3u are just gentleman's agreements, not standards in the ANSI/ISO sense. How they are to be used depends on who is using them and some of them aren't gentlemen. It's very hard to write software which deals sensibly with every variation which comes down the pike.

Regards,
Kent

[datside]

Hmm okay, I see now.
But dont you think that some option to disable automatic playlist item name change can be useful? Or option to select, radio name or stream declared name.
Using many pc and android players with playlists I faced same problem - disappearing station name after reading tags of stream

[Tim Curtis]

Just add the station using the + in Radio view and fill out the fields if you want accurate metadata. The name you choose when you add the station is used instead of the name tag in the radio stream which may or may not be there.

If the station URL's in a playlist are not in moOde's Radio database then the only option is the stations injected metadata tags which may not be there or may not contain accurate data.

[datside]

Is there a script for playlist radio automatic insertion?