Icecast - Aug 2004 - Macromedia Flash as mp3 player

Could you  explain just how you use Flash to play back the stream?

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Subject: [icecast] Macromedia Flash as mp3 player (30-Okt-2003 10:40)
From:    assorgia@tin.it
To:      d.moritz@edv-partner.com
> Hi, I've been experimenting on using the flash plugin to listen to 
> icecast mp3 streams, so that the user does'nt have to download any 
> external player.
> 
> At the moment I managed to play a valid stream only with icecast 
> 1.3, while icecast 2.0 fails to broadcast something intelligible by 
> flash.
> 
> Any idea about why this happens?
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> Could you  explain just how you use Flash to play back the stream?
It's simple enough!

1 - create sound object 
myradio = new Sound();

2 - load sound using the streaming flag 
myradio.loadSound("http://urltomyradio:8000/mountpoint", true);

3 - Play the sound
myradio.start();

It works pretty well with icecast 1.3 streams (at 16kbps 22.020 Hz for 
example). It does'nt work with icecast 2.0
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