How can you extract the overall stream title from AVPlayer?

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I'm using AVPlayer and AVPlayerItem in Swift to play internet radio streams.

Observing the "timedMetadata" gives me the track currently playing, however I never seem to get a handle of the radio title

See this example using VLC, I can obtain the "Now playing" part easily with timedMetadata, however I never receive the overall title of the radio "Title".

What am I missing, should I be observing something else to access the stream's/shoutcast/icecast information?

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1 Answers

Try this: 

let title = AVMetadataItem.metadataItems(from: urlAsset.commonMetadata, withKey: AVMetadataKey.commonKeyTitle, keySpace: AVMetadataKeySpace.common).first?.value as? String
print(title)

This works for media I have with metadata in the title (set using the Apple Music app). If this doesn't work for your media, please post it somewhere online along with your current code.

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