🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all,

I'd like to add streaming audio (mp3 format) to my app, and I'm
looking for an appropriate player or player component.  The stream
would originate at our company's Icecast server.  There's no need for
skins, visual, playlists, or even the ability for the user to select a
stream.  I just want to hook up to our stream and play our audio.

So far, everything I've found has been some combination of:	
	1) expensive
	2) big
	3) intrusive
	4) locked into the provider's Internet radio stations

A component would be nice, so that I could integrate it directly into
my app.  But I'm happy to use a standalone app if I can pass it the
necessary information.  Web-based, would be okay too, especially if I
could run it within an instance of TCppWebBrowser.  Free would be
nice, but I could pay a few hundred dollars if necessary.  Over a
thousand is out of my budget.

I really want to make things easy on my users.  I considered embedding
Windows Media Player via ActiveX, but found that on many computers WMP
doesn't properly play streamed mp3. The end user can fix this via
upgrading/reconfiguring, but the whole point is to make things easy on
them.  Many of my users aren't technical folks.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Bill D. Pirkle

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