This class is meant to retrieve status information from a Shoutcast streaming server.
It can retrieve information like currently playing track, current DJ, listeners, etc..
The class retrieves this information by accessing the HTTP server that provides status information in an HTML page that is retrieved and parsed by this class.
Retrieve status information from Shoutcast servers
This class can be used to retrieve status information from Shoutcast audio streaming servers.
It can access the statistics Web server, authenticate as administrator, retrieve and parse the statistics information in XML format.
It can extract several types of statistics information like: the current listeners, peak listeners, max listeners, reported listeners, average time, server genre, server title, song title, song title, station IRC channel, station ICQ or AIM account, Web hits, stream hits, stream status, bit rate, stream content type and server version.