Shairport-Sync Metadata help needed

monkeyjb123

Hello,

So I’ve managed to get shairport-sync running and am able to airplay music, however the artwork/now playing is not working via the metadata module. I know some people have ran into this issue in the past, but can’t seem to find if they fixed it or not since the thread went dead. Would greatly appreciate any help.

@sdetweil thanks for your help initially, much appreciated.

I’m using this as the guide https://github.com/surekap/MMM-ShairportMetadata

Here’s how I have it written on the shairport-sync config

metadata =
{
        enabled = "yes"; // set this to yes to get Shairport Sync to solicit metadata from the source and to pa$
        include_cover_art = "yes"; // set to "yes" to get Shairport Sync to solicit cover art from the source a$
        cover_art_cache_directory = "/tmp/shairport-sync/.cache/coverart"; // artwork will be  stored in this d$
        pipe_name = "/tmp/shairport-sync-metadata";
        pipe_timeout = 5000; // wait for this number of milliseconds for a blocked pipe to unblock before givin$
//      socket_address = "226.0.0.1"; // if set to a host name or IP address, UDP packets containing metadata w$
//      socket_port = 5555; // if socket_address is set, the port to send UDP packets to
//      socket_msglength = 65000; // the maximum packet size for any UDP metadata. This will be clipped to be b$
};

and this is how it is on my MM config.js

{
			module: 'MMM-ShairportMetadata',
    			position: 'bottom_left',
    			header: 'Now playing',
			config: {
			  metadataPipe: "/tmp/shairport-sync-metadata", // location of pipe with shairport-sync metadata
	  		      alignment: "left",	// Possible values [left|right|center]. Default: center
    			},		
		},