MediaElement - Access to streaming metadata

[bergesolutions]

At the moment, MediaElement does not have a way to access the metadata of a stream like an online radio. This would be very useful to show things like the current song title and artist, radio show, DJ, etc. Many online radio services offer this functionality, but atm MediaElement has no way of consuming this.
Both ExoPlayer (Android) and AVPlayer (iOS) have metadata listeners:

• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avplayeritemmetadatacollector
• https://developer.android.com/media/media3/exoplayer/retrieving-metadata

I think this would a very useful addition to MediaElement.

[bijington]

We also support Windows, is there an API for this?

[ne0rrmatrix]

Yes it appears windows does support it to using HLS https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/audio-video-camera/hls-tag-support and here is how you would use it https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/audio-video-camera/media-playback-with-mediasource I have experience with playlists as I have that PR to add support for subtitles. This would use the same resources and just extract metadata from HLS stream. It is pretty easy to setup.

If there is enough support I would be happy to work on it. Or support anyone who wants to contribute that is new and is looking for some help with it.

[rokmeglic71]

How much time do you think this will take @ne0rrmatrix for complete newbe to MAUI source? I know community toolkit well, maui also, but never contributed to MAUI toolkit.