Is it possible to play shoutcast internet radio streams with html5?

Question

Is it possible to play shoutcast (or some) internet radio streams with html5?

So I have next code:

Answer 1

The above posts give the correct answer, allthough they don't mention the use of the slash. Make sure /; is there after the stream URL and port.

<audio src="http://shoutcast.internet-radio.org.uk:10272/;" />

Answer 2

reading the HTML 5 audio specification (http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_audio.asp) W3C outlines which formats (MP3 or OGG) are supported by which browsers

What i would do is have an icecast server (not ShoutCast) streaming a MP3 and an OGG stream

using javascript detect the browser type - http://www.javascripter.net/faq/browsern.htm

if (the browser does not support HTML5){ print a message - USE a New Browser }

if (the browser supports HTML5 and OGG streaming (use list from W3c)){ use the OGG stream from the icecast server in the SRC tag }

if (the browser supports HTML5 MP3 streaming (use list from W3C)){ use the MP3 stream from the icecast server in the SRC tag }

i think this would cover all the major browsers and would solve most peoples problems you will probably find in the future this will be redundant as more browsers support

Answer 3

<audio controls src="http://example.com:8000/mountpath;"></audio>

Answer 4

Well, Firefox and Opera do not support non-Free codecs such as mp3 (as with the Opera 10.5 alpha, FF 3.5 and later supports only PCM wav and Ogg Vorbis for audio). I believe Chrome and Safari do support MP3, however.

The next problem is that your URL appears to point to a webpage describing the stream, not to a stream.

Finally, as far as I know, no one has implemented a playlist parser for the audio element (the spec only mentions audio files, not playlists), which is a problem here, as even when you click "listen" you get a playlist rather than a raw stream.

Answer 5

Add a semicolon to the end of the http request. It IS the protocol set forth by shoutcast to override its browser detection. Like this example:

<audio controls src="http://shoutcast.internet-radio.org.uk:10272/;"></audio>

Answer 6

Yes you can play ShoutCast2 I use it like this in this way

<audio preload="none" autoplay="autoplay" controls="controls">
    <source src="http://178.32.62.172:9079/stream" type="audio/mpeg">
    Your browser does not support this player, please update the version
</audio>