luckydonald / shairport-decoder

Decodes meta information send by shairport sync, an airplay server. Provides an API, or an example Webserver serving the information. Python.

shairport-decoder

Decodes meta information send by shairport sync, an airplay server. Provides an API, or an example Webserver serving the information.

API

This mainly is a package for use with python. See DOCUMENTATION.md.

Picture of the Webserver in action:

Also comes with an example webserver, so you can see with any device what is playing right now. Here it is

Note, the no-cover image is based on a vector from namelesshero2222

shairport-decoder's Issues

Cover art crashes program on track change

When launching simple_print.py The metadata loads fine, but when the track changes the program crashes.

Unknown shairport-sync core (ssnc) code "pcst", with base64 data MjEzMDk0NDA5OQ==.

Looks like when the metadata.py file tries to write the cover art in line 98

file.write(self.songcoverart.binary). # this is not base64!

It references tempfile.py

return func(*args, **kwargs)
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'NoneType'

It seems like it's not recognizing newer Airplay codes, possibly since Airplay has been updated since you created this.

Support

Hi,
It seems you've done a great job in implementing that which a lot of other people are struggling with.

I'm new to Pi and Python and would like to understand a little bit more about how to implement your work.

Would you be open to sharing some more details?

Best,
Nick

Send commands to clients

Hi,
is there a way to send commands to clients? (Skip, Previous,)
How can i retrieve file position and duration of the current playing track?
I've searched in the issues but no result.

Thanks
Leo

Install fails PipError

Install fails with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/setuptools-20.7.0-py3.2.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 154, in save_modules
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/setuptools-20.7.0-py3.2.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 195, in setup_context
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/setuptools-20.7.0-py3.2.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 243, in run_setup
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/setuptools-20.7.0-py3.2.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 273, in run
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/setuptools-20.7.0-py3.2.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 242, in runner
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/setuptools-20.7.0-py3.2.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 46, in _execfile
File "/tmp/easy_install-lzf3hj/luckydonald-utils-0.43/setup.py", line 4, in
from setuptools import setup, find_packages # Always prefer setuptools over distutils
File "/tmp/easy_install-lzf3hj/luckydonald-utils-0.43/luckydonaldUtils/dependencies/init.py", line 3, in
File "/tmp/easy_install-lzf3hj/luckydonald-utils-0.43/luckydonaldUtils/dependencies/install.py", line 2, in
File "/tmp/easy_install-lzf3hj/luckydonald-utils-0.43/luckydonaldUtils/dependencies/pip_interface.py", line 11, in
ImportError: cannot import name PipError

Python3, setuptools, pip3 is installed

What could it be?

Greets
Jacko

Webserver doesn't show cover art

Hey! I'm a python novice but I managed to get the module installed. You've put an amazing amount of work into this, thank you!

The webserver interface doesn't seem to show the cover art. simple-print.py shows the metadata successfully and downloads the cover art, and the webserver correctly displays on port 8080 with the album and track information, but no cover art.

I know you probably haven't looked at this for a while, but I'm wondering if maybe I'm doing something incorrectly on my end, rather than the script being broken. Do you have any pointers?

I'm happy to contribute to the design of the webserver interface if I can get this issue solved!

Edit: Okay, so the album art does appear, just not consistently! This may be an issue on the end of my router, actually.

How I can contact you by email?

@luckydonald: How I can contact you by email?

Can I have your email address?

You can remove this ticket after sending the reply ^^

Thanks in advance.

First steps