Radio - Get "now playing" info? (1 Viewer)

[Penbrock2]

I have TV working great and WebEPG getting my channel info. I started working on getting the radio to work.
MP saw my Hauppauge WinTV 7801 (Detected in Window$ as an 1800), I was able to scan and add all of my local channels just fine. It plays the radio just fine, but what I would LOVE is to be able to get the song info being played. I see MP has a section to display this information.

1) Does my card not support getting the now playing information? If so what card should I get?

2) Did I screw up a setting somewhere?

 

[mm1352000]

Hello again

MP saw my Hauppauge WinTV 7801 (Detected in Window$ as an 1800),

MP doesn't choose the label. It simply uses the label supplied by the tuner's driver. In this case it looks like 7801 is part of the product code (as shown here):
http://hauppauge.com/site/support/support.html

It plays the radio just fine, but what I would LOVE is to be able to get the song info being played. I see MP has a section to display this information.

1) Does my card not support getting the now playing information? If so what card should I get?

2) Did I screw up a setting somewhere?

Some broadcasts do include song information using a system called RDS. However Microsoft's tuner support framework has no support for receiving/processing that information. Therefore TV Server has no way to get RDS information from any tuner/card.

So, if you want to see song info then you will have to acquire the information from somewhere in the same way that you have to acquire guide data for TV.

 

[Penbrock2]

Thanks for the fast reply. I have to say support for MP here is #1

Shame Windows does not (and I assume will not) support this great feature