WiiM Ultra - Radio Paradise Cover Art

[jeromeof]

Now that the WiiM Ultra with its lovely screen is finally getting into peoples hands, I think its time that we got this simple change to the WiiM handler of RadioParadise. The 'Now playing' screen when playing Radio Paradise should show proper album art

So its very simple - the Radio Paradise now playing API looks like this:

https://api.radioparadise.com/api/now_playing?chan=1

where chan can be 0, 1, 2 or 3 (depending on the radio paradise channel, e.g. 0 = DEFAULT, 1 = MELLOW etc)

This call results in a simple JSON structure like this :

{"time": 132,
"artist": "KT Tunstall",
"title": "Other Side of the World",
"album": "Eye to the Telescope",
"year": "2004",
"cover": "https:\/\/img.radioparadise.com\/covers\/l\/B000DN5VJY.jpg",
"cover_med": "https:\/\/img.radioparadise.com\/covers\/m\/B000DN5VJY.jpg",
"cover_small": "https:\/\/img.radioparadise.com\/covers\/s\/B000DN5VJY.jpg"
}

Then the cover is obviously at that URL but maybe some simple decoding is needed

function decodeURL(url) {
  return url.replace(/\\/g, '');
}

const url = "https:\\/\\/img.radioparadise.com\\/covers\\/l\\/B000DN5VJY.jpg";
const decodedURL = decodeURL(url);
console.log(decodedURL);  // "https://img.radioparadise.com/covers/l/B000DN5VJY.jpg"

Then this cover is that URL: https://img.radioparadise.com/covers/l/B000DN5VJY.jpg

 

[sleepysurf]

Now that the WiiM Ultra with its lovely screen is finally getting into peoples hands, I think its time that we got this simple change to the WiiM handler of RadioParadise. The 'Now playing' screen when playing Radio Paradise should show proper album art

So its very simple...

I second the motion to update the Radio Paradise feed for album art. Interestingly, if I stream Radio Paradise via LMS/SqueezeLite, the album art IS displayed!

 

[monaco28]

I asked Wiim support about this two days ago and the lack of support for logging in to RP. They say they're working on it.

 

[andyp]

Its enhanced cover-art or what?

 

[monaco28]

I asked them specifically about support for RP logins. I'm hoping that will provide access to cover art and all other RP metadata.

 

[d6jg]

I second the motion to update the Radio Paradise feed for album art. Interestingly, if I stream Radio Paradise via LMS/SqueezeLite, the album art IS displayed!

That’s because LMS is a fully fledged music server and the developer is great at that sort of thing