Radio Paradise, metadata and MinimStreamer

[DavidHB]

Radio Paradise (RP) has a set of FLAC streams at CD quality. These streams are specifically stated to be "experimental". One group of streams provides metadata about the currently streaming music, which is useful with RP as most songs are not announced.

I am, on a test basis, trying to use one of these "*flacm" streams. The relevant entry in my Radio Stations.m3u file is:

#EXTINF:-1,[*Paradise] Radio Paradise
http://stream.radioparadise.com/flacm

The station plays fine, but no metadata is visible in the Control Point (BubbleDS Next).

I think that this may be by design. The MinimStreamer manual states:

"If the network stream uses the icecast protocol for embedding metadata (such as track title and artist information for the currently playing song), MinimStreamer removes this metadata and sends the audio data to the music player. This makes the stream playable on music players that don't support the icecast protocol."

Do I correctly understand this to mean that metadata is removed from all radio streams played through MinimStreamer? If so, is there (or could there be) a workaround?

David