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Sending title & artist directly to TuneIn

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bigtom101

I'm running NexGen101 (the 1st version from 2005/2006), and I am trying to figure out a way of sending title & artist directly to TuneIn using their API. I have NexGen output title & artist to a text file in the format "Artist - Title," and that goes directly to Breakaway which spawns the edcast plugin and sends it off to the Shoutcast server.

TuneIn says this is the basic API and has an example:

GET http://air.radiotime.com/Playing.as...stationid>&title=Bad+Romance&artist=Lady+Gaga

How do I make this work...and would I be able to use RadioToolbox to send this to TuneIn, or do I have to buy something like The Radio Experience to make it work?

Any help is greatly appreciated - would like for my playlist to show up on TuneIn's website, as well as the Now Playing feature...
 
I've been looking into this as well (albeit, with AudioVault).

It looks like TRE makes it easier, but I have not had time to test it. I do have a TRE license. Tune In support is horrible. The back and forth with a simple question is taking me about 4 days between responses (from their end).

I'll post if I get something to work... I'd appreciate if you would do the same.
 
Basically you need to get your automation system to send data to that URL to post artist - title information directly to tune in.

I was able to pull this off quite easily with Simian Automation setup for a station.

Basically you need to get your automation system to on play to send it's artist - title data to the Tune IN URL:

http://air.radiotime.com/Playing.ashx?partnerId=<id>&partnerKey=<key>&id=<stationid>&title=<Title Name>&artist=<Artist Name>

For instance with Simian automation I went into program options > streaming and told "custom 3" to point to the Tune In URL http://air.radiotime.com/

Then I edited the corresponding "custom" entry in the Encoder.ini to point to :

Custom3= /Playing.ashx?partnerId=<removed>l&partnerKey=<removed>&id=<removed>&title=%title%&artist=%artist%

(%title% and %artist% is Simian's way to replace those fields with the actual artist and actual title on air when submitting the data to the url).

Crazy for all the headaches people say about Simian this is one thing that I got to work well :)

I would guess if your automation does not have such abilities to send directly you'll need to use a 3rd party product like TRE or maybe RCS's RadioShow-RDS could actually do it for you.

I'd recommend giving RCS a call.. Their support is wonderful and they should be able to help you get it working with their automation system.
 
chriscollins said:
It looks like TRE makes it easier, but I have not had time to test it. I do have a TRE license. Tune In support is horrible. The back and forth with a simple question is taking me about 4 days between responses (from their end).

I'll post if I get something to work... I'd appreciate if you would do the same.
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Use TRE - the latest version has a plugin that will work directly with TuneIn (we use it at work with the AudioVault machines).

My main issue is that my baby NexGen101 will only output title/artist to one destination - it can do XML, plain text, TCP-IP (ip/port only). I may have to break down and a)upgrade to the full NexGen or b), spend the money on TRE or something similar.

TuneIn is a pain in the rear to deal with...I love their apps, but as a broadcaster they are a pain
 
Update: I can get it to work fine with SAM's PAL scripting function, but not with Radio Toolbox. Radio Toolbox gives me either 403 error or 500 error as server responses.

Looks like I'll be buying TRE or RadioShow, cause I'm not switching to SAM just for this one feature...
 
Well, the Tune In module is an add on... I'm going to see how much it costs. Not part of the base TRE, plus, I have already paid the Web 2.0 license to do Twitter posts. TRE is a lot of 'fees'.
 
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