android - MediaMetadataRetriever on streaming source

Question

I am having a tough time displaying the current track playing from a streaming source. Using MediaMetaDataRetriever class returns a NULL, meaning it failed. I wrote a simple method but now I'm inclining to think this only works on media files like MP3, WMA, AVI, etc.

public void metaData(){
        mmr.setDataSource(urlStation);
        String metaD = mmr.extractMetadata(MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_ALBUMARTIST);
        Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Artist = " + metaD, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

Any good and easy recommandations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time!

Answer 1

MediaMetadataRetriever doesn't work with URL's on certain versions of Android, see this issue. I created FFmpegMediaMetadataRetriever as a workaround, I suggest trying it out.