No song Title from mpc current

Pi MusicBox
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Hi, I’m quite new to using Musicbox and Mopidy.
However, I have a rpi2 with a Adafruit 16x2 LCD and have a modified version of Usual Panics Radio

Before trying out Musicbox I had it all working, mpc current would show the title and song info from the streamed radio station. Like "Motorhead - Burner"
I would use that to print it nicely on the display. This was on Raspbian Jessie.

I wanted to try Musicbox for the extra functions like Soundcloud and Google Music (which I can’t get to work on Musicbox :stuck_out_tongue: ) so I reinstalled with pimusicbox-0.6.0.
If I play the same station from Musicbox it will only display the station name, like “Classic Hard Rock” from Audioaddicts Rockradio.

And if I run my script it also just shows the station name.

How can I make it so it uses the stream info and not that static station names?

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Musicbox uses an old version of mopidy (I do not remember the version but it was older than v1.0.0).
In mopidy v1.0.0 stream_title_changed() event was added that allows to get the title of the song playing. This is why you are not able to see the song name on musicbox.

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Can I update mopidy without breaking Musicbox?

Edit:
I will also look into dropping Musicbox and going with Mopsidy alone.

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Yes, if you like to live dangerously. See http://docs.pimusicbox.com/en/develop/upgrading/

However, both gmusic and soundcloud are simple enough to install yourself. I would go with regular mopidy and enjoy the very latest versions.

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Haha, yes I read that page :smiley:
I will do that, use my backup to get back to regular Raspbian and then install Mopidy.

Thank you both.