Weird bleeps and no metadata available when playing a SHOUTcast stream about streamingkit HOT 17 CLOSED

If my memory serves me right, these bleeps might occur when the stream has metadata but are not parsed... Try and see if the request header has a key/value pair of icy-metaint in it, if that's missing then that's why you hear those bleeps..
The server includes the metadata in the stream but if the header is missing then StreamingKit tries to parse the metadata as audio thus, the bleeps!

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@dimitris-c icy-metaint seems indeed absent. Had luck with https://github.com/jorgenhenrichsen/SwiftAudio/pull/93/files but unfortunately this is based around AVPlayer.

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Try setting "0" on the header value in STKHTTPDataSource line 618. See if that makes any difference.
I haven't got a chance to test this on my library AudioStreaming most likely to behave the same though...

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@dimitris-c Setting "Icy-MetaData" to "0" removes the random bleeps indeed so it seems your memory serves you right :) .

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So this is a server issue, it should provide the icy-metaint field in the header for the metadata parsing to work!

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AVPlayer can still parse it though.

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@dylancom ,

How do you install the StreamingKit library in your application? Cocoapods is not the latest version.

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@iDevelopper I copied all the source files located inside StreamingKit/StreamingKit/* in my Xcode project.

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So, I have not weird bleeps in my applications, one is available on App Store (https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/shout-radios-player/id1231770007). The next one is WIP.

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@iDevelopper I just tried your app and added: http://23.237.150.98:8512/ to favorite stations. I enabled metadata and also hear bleeps / weird noises every x seconds.

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@dylancom ,

Very interesting. I'll take a test!

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Yes, I also hear those weird noises. It must come from the server, no ?

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@iDevelopper No, when using: https://github.com/jorgenhenrichsen/SwiftAudio/pull/93/files it plays without noises and shows the metadata. (Based around AVPlayer)

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StreamingKit looks for the "Icy-metaint" key in the header. However, the header does not have this key but a "icy-metaint" key:

    if ([httpHeaders objectForKey:@"Icy-metaint"] != nil)
    {
        _metadataBytesRead  = 0;
        _metadataStep       = [[httpHeaders objectForKey:@"Icy-metaint"] intValue];
        _metadataOffset     = _metadataStep;
    }

If you try to replace "Icy-metaint" by "icy-metaint", it will work.

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What I don't understand because with the other stations the header have an "icy-metaint" key also and it works!

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So what I noticed is that these particular streams have the header data as part of the stream, eg they have Icy Headers. StreamingKit is parsing the data and correctly assigns the values...
What happens is that normal http headers requested by CFHTTPMessageCopyAllHeaderFields are case-insensitive while the parsing of he Icy header is not, that's why it doesn't work in this case.

Now I need to find time and add parsing Icy headers in AudioStreaming

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@dimitris-c ,

With your brilliant explanations, and reading the documentation for the CFHTTPMessageCopyAllHeaderFields function, now I understand. Thanks a lot for that!

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