[MPlayer-users] Help: Can't play mp3 stream via http

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 05:57:23PM +0000, Andrea wrote:
> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > Well, you can just ask them if they can support Winamp for playing it,
> > as to what they are doing wrong: their server returns an empty file when
> > "Icy-MetaData: 1" is set in the http request.
> > To play it you can use latest svn and the url:
> > noicyx://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3
> 
> What a quick implementation! It works.
> 
> One last question about Icy-Metadata: 1
> What should they do instead of returning an empty file? What would be the minimum required to make
> it work?

Just ignoring Icy-MetaData would make it work out-of-the-box with MPlayer and
Winamp (noicyx simply does not set that one). Without any metadata like what
is currently playing etc. though.
I can't say what they'd have to do to achieve that though, as said it seems to
be some custom-hacked webserver, not something standard like icecast or
similar.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger