How to get HTML5 to play a stream from Shoutcast

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16871553

  •  30-05-2022
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Question

Currently I am using a flash player to play my shoutcast stream. I would like people on mobile devices to be able to listen as well, and it seems HTML5 is the way to go. How would I go about getting this shoutcast stream "stardust.wavestreamer.com:3353" working in HTML5?

I tried using

but that does not seem to be compatible with shoutcast.

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Solution

If you connect to a SHOUTcast server with a web browser, it will detect your browser because it has Mozilla in the User-Agent header, and send you to the admin page for the stream anyway. You can test this yourself by simply going to http://stardust.wavestreamer.com:3353/.

Fortunately, SHOUTcast servers provide a way to force the loading of the stream. Just add a semicolon ; to the end of the URL.

http://stardust.wavestreamer.com:3353/;

Internally in the SHOUTcast server, it will now see your User-Agent string as MPEG OVERRIDE, which no longer contains Mozilla, so you get the actual media stream.

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