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Need to Play Icecast Mp3 Stream, Display Song Info

Hi. I need to play an Icecast-generated Mp3 stream and display the song title, name of the artist, and the album from the stream meta data. Is JW FLV Player the right solution for me? I've been trying to get it to work at http://www.nocoastradio.com/test/ but without success. I know the stream isn't the problem because I can listen to it in all my desktop players--I was even able to get Wimpy Button to stream it (see test page above)--but JW is giving me Error #2032. What I need to know is: even if I take the time to troubleshoot and fix the error, will JW display the meta data I need, either in the playlist or the video area? (And, of course, if it will, I could use help figuring out the error.) Thanks so much.

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The JW FLV Media Player plays Shoutcast/Icecast/Nicecast streams.

A bit of serverside PHP will give you the data.

See this thread: *http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forum/Feature-Suggestions/13983/SHOUTcast-Metadata-Title-and-Artist-display*

See all of these threads: *http://www.longtailvideo.com/jw/?search=shoutcast*

Be aware of one problem with some Flash-based players and some browsers - the browsers leak memory until they have consumed all available RAM and then the browser locks up or crashes.

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Thank you. That was a helpful thread, but it didn't apply to my question exactly. I'm trying to get an Icecast stream to play in JW FLV Player and have the player itself display the currently playing artist, song, and album. My main problem is that I can't get JW FLV Player to play the stream (I get error #2032). I just hope that, if I can get it playing, it will display the meta data.

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The JW FLV Media Player has no facilities to display Shoutcast/Icecast/Nicecast data in the player. That is why I referred you to that thread.

The usual way to connect to an Icecast stream is:bc.. 'file': 'http://domain/mountpoint',
'type': 'sound',



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I guess we'll just have to find a different solution for this, then. Thanks for your help!

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You can try http://ffmp3.sourceforge.net, maybe this can help you :)

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