WiiM Pro + Home App + live streams + metadata

[n3mmr]

I am considering buying a WiiM Pro to connect to my existing AVR thru spdif. I will control it thru the home app on a Pixel 7a Android phone

To speed things up with the evaluation I would like to know a few things first:
1. Can you manually enter several live streams for aac, mp3 and hires flac streams?
I am not interested in using a radio station database service that I can't control, so the ability to enter a large number of live stream URLs manually myself is important.

2. If such a stream includes metadata, can that be easily displayed on my phone using the Home App? What metadata would be handled properly?
Are there other ways to display that metadata?

I am envisioning somehow entering several dozens of flac or other streams, such as

http://stream.p-node.org/piano

and

http://amp.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac

and then select and play them.

And at that time I hope to see metadata such as song title, artist, composer and so on.

Can that be done using just the WiiM Home App?

Are there other ways to access the WiiM Pro, such as an embedded web server?

 

[hgo58]

For

http://stream.p-node.org/piano

Works but no art picture.

 

[Burnside]

I am considering buying a WiiM Pro to connect to my existing AVR thru spdif. I will control it thru the home app on a Pixel 7a Android phone

To speed things up with the evaluation I would like to know a few things first:
1. Can you manually enter several live streams for aac, mp3 and hires flac streams?

Yes, under Open Network Stream

I am not interested in using a radio station database service that I can't control, so the ability to enter a large number of live stream URLs manually myself is important.

2. If such a stream includes metadata, can that be easily displayed on my phone using the Home App? What metadata would be handled properly?
Are there other ways to display that metadata?

Perhaps, it may depend on how that metadata is presented

I am envisioning somehow entering several dozens of flac or other streams, such as

http://stream.p-node.org/piano

and

http://amp.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac

and then select and play them.

And at that time I hope to see metadata such as song title, artist, composer and so on.

Personally haven’t come across a stream with that level of detail, or if there have been such, I haven’t seen composer, for example, displayed

Are there other ways to access the WiiM Pro, such as an embedded web server?

No.

 

[canard]

there are far too many cases to be able to answer you with certainty.. direct access was implemented in spring 22... but for example in my specific case on aac radios that are close to my heart, on icast I never had any data.. however I just kept the good old shaza* on hand just in case...