Shoutcast Flash Player

programming flash
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Ok, So I spent all day and I made this cool looking player thing for my shoutcast internet radio.

Now I want to use flash to code it, and then I’m going to make it a program in VB6. I want to use flash to code it because I know more flash then VB6, but I want to have that program look to it. So here are some features it will have…

  • Play and Stop the radio stream (No pause because you can’t pause a live broadcast stream)
  • Volume Bar (The long bar on the left)
  • Get current song from XML on server (Password Protected) or Get current song from /7.html (Not Password Protected)
  • Equalizer (The small repeated bars on the left and right)

Thing I am going to need advice for…

  • Importing the different graphics into flash and what file format to save them as.
  • Using a font that isn’t installed on everyones computer.

I know some flash but I’m not the best at it. I’m going to search from tutorials now and see what I can figure out on my own.

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function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
_root.songtitle = this.firstChild.childNodes[8].firstChild.nodeValue;
songtitle_txt.text = _root.songtitle;
} else {
trace(“Stats file not loaded!”);
}
}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load(“http://domain.com:8000/admin.cgi?pass=*****&mode=viewxml”);

I wrote that using the a tutorial that I found here. I changed around the file path for security reasons. When I try it in flash it dosent load the current song though. :m:

Here is my XML Document created by shoutcast…


<SHOUTCASTSERVER>
<CURRENTLISTENERS>1</CURRENTLISTENERS>
<PEAKLISTENERS>2</PEAKLISTENERS>
<MAXLISTENERS>50</MAXLISTENERS>
<REPORTEDLISTENERS>1</REPORTEDLISTENERS>
<AVERAGETIME>7126</AVERAGETIME>
<SERVERGENRE>Alternative</SERVERGENRE>
<SERVERURL>http://www.audiomonkey.org</SERVERURL>
<SERVERTITLE>Audio Monkey Radio (AMR)...Your Rock Alternative</SERVERTITLE>
<SONGTITLE>Norma Jean - The Human Face, Divine</SONGTITLE>
<SONGURL/>
<IRC>#shoutcast</IRC>
<ICQ>0</ICQ>
<AIM>N/A</AIM>
<WEBHITS>91</WEBHITS>
<STREAMHITS>13</STREAMHITS>
<STREAMSTATUS>1</STREAMSTATUS>
<BITRATE>64</BITRATE>
<CONTENT>audio/mpeg</CONTENT>
<VERSION>1.9.4</VERSION>
-<WEBDATA>
<INDEX>4</INDEX>
<LISTEN>0</LISTEN>
<PALM7>0</PALM7>
<LOGIN>0</LOGIN>
<LOGINFAIL>2</LOGINFAIL>
<PLAYED>0</PLAYED>
<COOKIE>0</COOKIE>
<ADMIN>0</ADMIN>
<UPDINFO>77</UPDINFO>
<KICKSRC>0</KICKSRC>
<KICKDST>0</KICKDST>
<UNBANDST>0</UNBANDST>
<BANDST>0</BANDST>
<VIEWBAN>0</VIEWBAN>
<UNRIPDST>0</UNRIPDST>
<RIPDST>0</RIPDST>
<VIEWRIP>0</VIEWRIP>
<VIEWXML>7</VIEWXML>
<VIEWLOG>0</VIEWLOG>
<INVALID>1</INVALID>
</WEBDATA>
-<LISTENERS>
-<LISTENER>
<HOSTNAME>**.***.***.***</HOSTNAME>
<USERAGENT>WinampMPEG/5.0</USERAGENT>
<UNDERRUNS>0</UNDERRUNS>
<CONNECTTIME>4057</CONNECTTIME>
<POINTER>0</POINTER>
<UID>8</UID>
</LISTENER>
</LISTENERS>
-<SONGHISTORY>
-<SONG>
<PLAYEDAT>1091408314</PLAYEDAT>
<TITLE>Norma Jean - The Human Face, Divine</TITLE>
</SONG>
-<SONG>
<PLAYEDAT>1091408112</PLAYEDAT>
<TITLE>Papa Roach - last resort</TITLE>
</SONG>
-<SONG>
<PLAYEDAT>1091407738</PLAYEDAT>
<TITLE>Nine Inch Nails - Closer</TITLE>
</SONG>
-<SONG>
<PLAYEDAT>1091407644</PLAYEDAT>
<TITLE>New Found Glory - This Disaster</TITLE>
</SONG>
-<SONG>
<PLAYEDAT>1091407452</PLAYEDAT>
-<TITLE>
New Found Glory - New Found Glory - Catalyst 12 I'd Kill To Fall Asleep
</TITLE>
</SONG>
-<SONG>
<PLAYEDAT>1091407183</PLAYEDAT>
<TITLE>Incubus - Megalomaniac</TITLE>
</SONG>
-<SONG>
<PLAYEDAT>1091406951</PLAYEDAT>
<TITLE>Hoobastank - The Reason</TITLE>
</SONG>
-<SONG>
<PLAYEDAT>1091406673</PLAYEDAT>
<TITLE>Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation Remix</TITLE>
</SONG>
-<SONG>
<PLAYEDAT>1091406307</PLAYEDAT>
<TITLE>Behind Blue Eyes - Limp Bizkit</TITLE>
</SONG>
-<SONG>
<PLAYEDAT>1091406130</PLAYEDAT>
<TITLE>Letter Kills - Don't Believe</TITLE>
</SONG>
</SONGHISTORY>
</SHOUTCASTSERVER>
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I’m having similar problems getting a dynamic text field to display the currently playing song title.

I did notice that when I assign a textfield to display childNodes[0] that the field comes up with an ICY error message in it, like the following:

ICY 404 Resource Not Found
icy-notice1:

(it stops there)

I searched for the error and it’s a common error that gets returned by shoutcast when a stream is down/inactive/not streaming… but I know for a fact that the stream is working because I’m listening to it as I’m working. :wink:

I’m thinking Flash is being picky about something to do with the way Shoutcast dynamically spits out the xml file with the data in it…?

I may just try and use that 7.html instead.