amrykid/uwpshoutcastmss

A library for connecting to Shoutcast in Windows 10 UWP applications.

UWPShoutcastMSS

A library for connecting to Shoutcast in Windows 10 UWP applications.

How to use it

Easy, peasy.

Foreground Audio

Assuming you set up an invisible MediaPlayer named 'MediaPlayer', the following should work:

ShoutcastStream shoutcastStream = await ShoutcastStreamFactory.ConnectAsync( new Uri("http://194.232.200.156:8000/"));
MediaPlayer.SetMediaStreamSource(shoutcastStream.MediaStreamSource);
MediaPlayer.Play();

Background Audio

Use the following in your audio background task.

//Initialize the stream and connect
ShoutcastStream shoutcastStream = await ShoutcastStreamFactory.ConnectAsync( new Uri("http://194.232.200.156:8000/"));
//Hook up an event handler for grabbing metadata when it changes. This means you can update your "Now Playing" display.
streamManager.MetadataChanged += Metadata_EventHandler;

//Old-style background audio works like this
//Set the manager's underlying stream as the BackgroundMediaPlayer's MediaSource.
BackgroundMediaPlayer.Current.SetMediaSource(streamManager.MediaStreamSource);
//Play!
BackgroundMediaPlayer.Current.Play();

Single-process Background Audio

//New-style background audio works like this
//Make sure to have the background audio permission set in your application's manifest.
MediaPlayer.SetMediaStreamSource(shoutcastStream.MediaStreamSource);
MediaPlayer.Play();

Want to contribute?

I'm pretty new to the open source scene so if you have any contributions, feel free to send a pull request. I will be re-evaluating the license of the code in the future if it is a problem. I will also be looking into setting up a Nuget package if this library takes off.

Known Issues

uwpshoutcastmss's Issues

Support Ogg Vorbis/Opus (for IceCast 2)

Newer IceCast servers support ogg streams where the metadata is embedded in the audio directly. While that is a possible in it self, there is no way to create a Vorbis/Opus decoder for playback. More specifically, there is no way to create AudioEncodingProperties for it.

I posted a feedback item for it on the UserVoice site. It can be found here.

[TODO] Support AAC Streams

Implementing support for this would requires two parts to be worked on.

• Implement AAC header parsing:
  https://github.com/Amrykid/UWPShoutcastMSS/blob/master/src/UWPShoutcastMSS/Streaming/ShoutcastMediaSourceManager.cs#L152
• Making sure the sample size and sample duration are correct:
  https://github.com/Amrykid/UWPShoutcastMSS/blob/master/src/UWPShoutcastMSS/Streaming/ShoutcastMediaSourceManager.cs#L67

Side-note: I don't remember why I commented this out: https://github.com/Amrykid/UWPShoutcastMSS/blob/master/src/UWPShoutcastMSS/Streaming/ShoutcastMediaSourceManager.cs#L82

Nuget Package

Could you host this on nuget?

Radionomy Streams Don't Work [0.2 Rewrite]

Radionomy streams are misbehaving currently. Will need to reapply the old tricks to get it to work.

Transfer: Chunk Encoded servers aren't supported

Stations like R/a/dio use chunk encoding for its Ice-Cast servers. There are two ways to solve this:

• A: Implement Chunk Encoding support myself
• B: Implement #5

[TODO] Parse Audio Data

The library needs to be able to parse audio frame data to determine channel count, bitrate, etc.

HTTPS isn't supported

Library doesn't support HTTPS at this time.

See #5

Some stations cause Unicode errors when parsing headers

A station named Conect Rádio 64k AAC
(http://142.4.222.227:9890/) is causing an exception when connecting due to a Unicode issue.

Exception:
Message: No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page.
Stack Trace: None but it comes from this line in ShoutcastMediaSourceManager

while (!response.EndsWith(Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine))
{
    await socketReader.LoadAsync(1);
    response += socketReader.ReadString(1);
}

Its possible that #5 will fix this.

[TODO] Playlist File Parsers

Playlist file parsers should be included with this library just to be 'feature' complete.

AAC_ADTS stations with unusual bitrates are playing choppy

I don't know how best to describe this, but it is like it plays stops for like 20ms then plays again and sounds very choppy.

And example station is

http://icy.arn.com.au/au_004_icy

and

http://legacy.scahw.com.au/3mmm_32

SHOUTcast Server v2.4.7.256/posix(linux x86)

Hello, i try to connect a Shoutcast v 2 to my player, but i doesn't response. I'm doing something wrong or it hasn't support?. Works fine on Shoutcast v1. Many thanks, Nahuel.

Mono Mp3 files

Hi there .
I found a little issue with mono (One Channel) Music files .
If you play them you can see that the music plays with a 2x speed .
this can be a good sample
http://208.85.243.222/radiojavan_low

Radio station throwing 404

I can't find a solution to this radio station

http://icy.ihrcast.arn.com.au/au_004_icy

I managed to modify the request header to get rid of the 404, but then ended up getting a 400 bad request

Now I am stuck wondering why.

[TODO] Better way of detecting frame sync for MP3 and AAC

Right now, the library occasionally gets a false-positive which causes the library to crash when trying to detect the sample rate.

For MP3:
MPEG Version: 1.0
Sample Rate Index: 3 (which is out of bounds).

[TODO] Use HttpClient for negotiating connections

The library should use an actual HTTP library instead of my hack to get the connection going. This will also handle certain streams that send down weird Unicode characters that currently kill the library (see #7).