shoutcast protocol description? - Winamp & Shoutcast Forums

[mumumu-tan]

anyway, here's the skinny. it's HTTP. 1: connect to the stream you want 2: send GET /path, usully it's just GET / 3: you'll get back a HTTP header with a bunch of "ICY" tags, these are completly self descriptive, such as "icy-name: Monkey Radio", and "icy-bitrate: 128". this is followed by 2 CRLF's,