This section shows you how to tell RadioLover to interpret track information sent by a radio station.
Figure 6.7. Track Information Options
RadioLover has many options to customise track information interpretation.
A common pattern for MP3 streams is "Artist - Title". If the radio stream broadcasts in a different pattern, you can select another one from the pull-down menu.
Most information is separated by a separator character such as a hypen '-', but sometimes you might need to change this a comma or an underscore.
For radio stations that send song information in a different language encoding, you can select the language type from the pull-down menu. Changes take effect the next time you start recording.
To verify the language encoding is correct, check the song title in the bottom right of the main window. RadioLover uses ID3v2 tags to store this information in the recording file, and they will be visible in iTunes and an iPods.
Sometimes it is necessary to clean or ignore certain track information sent by radio stations. Due to the limited way in which radio stations can send track information, some radio stations send advertisements and other information when they should be sending track information. This causes problems for stream recorders which interpret this information as the signal for a new track.
Cleaning track information is useful if a radio station is sending extra information. For example, one radio station sends information such as "Coldplay - The Scientist (see our website for the last ten songs played)". You can add the text "(see our website for the last ten songs played)" to the Clean list and it will be removed, before RadioLover extracts the artist and title information.
Ignoring track information is useful if a radio station likes to broadcast the next song in a playlist. They might send information such as "Next Track: Blah Blah Blah". Simply add the phrase "Next Track:" to the Ignore list, and the track information will be discarded.