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Topic: Foobar showing ? for artist and title when playing radio streams (Read 2051 times) previous topic - next topic
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Foobar showing ? for artist and title when playing radio streams

Hi

I'm a noob sorry but when I play a radio stream in Foobar, the media player in Truelaunchbar is displaying the ? symbol in the artist and title boxes.



It could be a Foobar playlist problem, how do I fix this please to show artist and title when playing from a radio stream?

Thanks, R.

Foobar showing ? for artist and title when playing radio streams

Reply #1 –
As the title formatting syntax reference reads:

[...]
Discards contents of the bracket when no fields referenced inside are present. Commonly used to create parts of formatting scripts that are active only when relevant fields are found.

For artist, you may want to use [%artist%] instead of just %artist%
[%duration%] instead of %duration%
[%album%]  instead of %album%

Radio-streams usually don't have such info as; artist, album, duration, date etc.
Just set the values in preferences>display>default user interface>playlist view,
from there you can set your title formatting as you please.