How to fetch Metadata from shoutcast radio channel for Windowsphone?

Question

I like to develop a Windowsphone 8/7 internet radio app which streams the audio file from shoutcast radio channel.For that I need to extract metadata from the streaming.Now I am wondering about how to extract metadata from the stream.

Answer 1

You need to create a custom MediaStreamSource implementation. This way you'll have complete control on what data is received from the network, and what data is fed to the OS-provided media codecs.

Unfortunately this task is hard. Here's the document outlining some technical challenges I've encountered (and solved): http://const.me/SkyFM/technical.aspx