expectingtofly wrote: 
> From the discussion on the other thread, I understand that the Alexa
> skill is using 'remote_title' to report the 'on a..' bit.   
> Looking at the LMS code its a complicated subject as to what is put in
> 'remote_title'.  From what I can tell it, is basically the following : 
> If its remote and it doesn't have a duration, and there is a track title
> but not an album in the meta data, then it will return the current title
> (what's in line 1).     BBC Sounds streams always have a duration, and
> it populates the album tag and also all you would get would be a repeat
> of the title (line 1) anyway.  So, basically, I think the answer is no,
> you would never get a remote_title for BBC Sounds streams.   
> 
> Based on that, it may be a discussion for the Alexa Skill.

Well I can pull the station name out of any of the JSON parameters as
long as things are consistent. It does not -have- to specifically be
remote_title. In the returned -playlist_loop-, paramaters such as title,
artist and album should be self-explanatory but reality is that album
often gets hijacked for e.g. a programme description. It's immaterial to
me where I pluck the data from as long as it's consistent...


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