Now playing in TXT file

English mAirList 6.x
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I want to export the song that is currently playing in a text file (txt extension) so that I can display it in Twitch when I am streaming.

Does someone has a script for this? I am a total novice when it comes to scripting in mAirlist.

So the only thing that needs to be in the TXT file is for example: Abba - Dancing Queen
That is the only thing that needs to be displayed.

I hope you can help me!

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You can use simple logging in a text file with overwriting at each new entry.

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Where can I find this? I’ve looked in “Configuration” -> Logging -> Add. But what do I have to choose?

And do I need to do something else? Sorry for asking all this but I’m a novice when it comes to this kind of stuff.

Radio automation, database, playlist, layout and so on I have no problem with but this is a bit out of my league I’m afraid :wink:

Ivan

4

Sorry, took a while… mAirList PC was sleeping. :zzz:
“Turn It On Again” (Genesis, 1980) :sunglasses:

Please follow these screenshots:

v6 Config (en) logging
v6 Config (en) logging796Ă—566 14.9 KB

v6 Config (en) logging txt
v6 Config (en) logging txt471Ă—578 4.54 KB

In the dialog you must create a txt-file and set to “Overwrite this file each time a log entry is written”.
UTF-8 is recommended if some characters may cause trouble.

Line format %a - %b gives you…

A list of logging variables can be found here:
https://wiki.mairlist.com/reference:logging_variables

If you only want to log music items but no jingles, station-ids etc., please use the filter function.
Test & try it to find the best log for your stream. Have fun!

5

Thank you @UliNobbe! This did the job!

Thanks for the help!

Ivan

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6

Unfortunately the logging is not working for external streams passing through. They can update the Encoder but are not passed over to the logging interface.
Neither on streams within a player nor on streams via stream monitor.

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// Called when metadata is received from a (relayed) stream
procedure OnItemMetadata(Item: IPlaylistItem; Metadata: string);
var
  sl: TStringList;
begin
  sl := TStringList.Create;
  try
    sl.Add(Metadata);
    sl.SaveToFile('C:\sometextfile.txt');
  finally
    sl.Free;
  end;
end;

EDIT: Or even easier with mAirList’s ref-counted IStrings interface:

// Called when metadata is received from a (relayed) stream
procedure OnItemMetadata(Item: IPlaylistItem; Metadata: string);
var
  sl: IStrings;
begin
  sl := Factory.CreateStrings;
  sl.Add(Metadata);
  sl.SaveToFile('C:\sometextfile.txt');
end;
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Thanks, is there a way to trigger any built in Logging, that is already configured, to have the same output as if a player is running?
I want the relayed stream, so there is no need to maintain various scripts fot various logging outputs. One of my customers is using http get logging or mySQL logging. I did not double check.

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The problem is that the logging interfaces uses all the invidual item properties (artist, title, duration, etc.) to specify the output format. Whereas the incoming stream data is a just a plain string. Before that could be passed to the logging system, we would need to find a good way to split that back into artist, title etc. Not so easy in the general case.

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Ok, I will double check, how they actually insert the Data.
I assume in this case they use httpGet, and I can pass it 1:1 there.