Update metadata without playing new item

[asutula]

Awesome project! It looks like it makes something overly complex in Android really simple :)

My use case is for playing a live audio stream. The URL for the stream never changes and provides a constant audio feed. In addition to the auto stream URL, there is another endpoint I can fetch data from about the name, etc of the currently playing show within that stream.

Since I only ever have to play a single audio source, I need a way to update the metadata on it's own if I detect from my endpoint that it has changed (so the system notification updates, etc).

A quick look through the source code makes it seems that updating metadata is only possibly by playing a new item (a new source URL in a new MediaMetaData). Am I wrong? Is what I want to to already possible?