Audacious not showing stream metadata (song info)

[durhammer]

I use Audacious now instead of my old fave, Cantata, as Cantata is no longer actively maintained.

New to Sparky and installed Audacious 4.3.1 via Aptus. Loaded my music files and radios playlists. Fired up a favorite radio station. Got music, but there's no song info (artist and title) in the app itself, in hovering over the app in the task bar, or with a desktop notification box.

I've looked at all the plugins and if there's one specific to doing the job, I can't find it.

Anyone know the answer to this?

[durhammer]

Okay, I got curious about the fact that I didn't have this problem on other distros. I saw that at least one of them was running audacious 4.2.1 and didn't have this problem. So I downloaded the 4.2.1 deb file and installed it. There was an install configuration issue due to one of the libraries, but audacious came up and shows the song info on radio streams. Not all is well, however, as my favorite radio station now has a decoding issue (possibly relating to the library error just mentioned).

Sparky maintainers, got any ideas? Sparky mods (@pavroo maybe?) got ideas?

[durhammer]

I opened a bug report with audacious folks on GitHub. It turns out to be a problem only with certan stream providers (two of my favorite radio stations, so of course I notice it). But my other distros (Q4OS and MX Linux, for two) do not have the issue.

As for my install issue, running sudo apt --fix-broken-install seems to have taken care of that.

But still looking for ideas if there are any folks out there knowledgeable in such things!