node-radio-stream

Internet Radio (SHOUTcast, Icecast) Proxy for NodeJS

This module acts offers an interface for proxying the raw audio data and parsing the metadata from an SHOUTcast or Icecast broadcast. The exposed API is offered as a ReadStream for compatibility and flexibility with Node's other Stream interfaces.

Usage

Here's a basic example of just piping the clean audio data to stdout, while printing the HTTP response headers and metadata events to stderr:

var radio = require("radio-stream");

var stream = radio.createReadStream(url);

stream.on("connect", function() {
  console.error("Radio Stream connected!");
  console.error(stream.headers);
});
stream.on("data", function(chunk) {
  process.stdout.write(chunk);
});
stream.on("metadata", function(title) {
  console.error(title);
});

Look in the examples directory for code of some more complex use-cases.

The most important use case of this is for HTML5 web apps that listen to radio streams; the <audio> tag doesn't know how to deal with the extra metadata and it is impossible to extract. But a WebSocket connection could be used in conjunction with this module to provide those metadata events to a web browser, for instance.

Installation

This will be available through npm once it reaches a stable state. While alpha, you can currently just download this git repo:

git clone git://github.com/TooTallNate/node-radio-stream.git