Icecast Streaming Media Server

[jaddle]

Hello,

I've been trying to develop a web page that includes a flash audio player. What I'd like to do is to have the web page respond in real time to the metadata embedded in the audio stream (generating javascript events), but I'm running into trouble: it seems that the http streaming built in to flash doesn't support the metadata - it doesn't even request it when connecting to the server, so there's no way to get at it that way.

Other suggestions I've seen have been to query the server with a php script that grabs the relevant into, but the whole point of this is that I need to sync things up - I want things to happen on the web page approximately when they happen in the audio (within a few seconds, anyway). With latency issues (see http://icecast.imux.net/viewtopic.php?t=7027) asking the server won't solve anything.

This comment - http://www.flexiblefactory.co.uk/flexible/?p=51#comment-3556 - describes a possible workaround. Does anyone know of any flash player (besides the tunamedia one mentioned there) that might support this? Any other way to get at the metadata?