I am writing a web page for an online radio station that uses SHOUTcast 1.9.8. I am trying to retrieve the currently playing song from the server, display it on the page, and keep it updated. I am looking for the best way to do this. I can get the current song from the SHOUTcast server's "7.html". The "7.html" looks like this "1,1,12,50,1,128,Artist - Song name". All I care about is the last thing, the artist and song name. I already know how to parse the string to get what I want in both PHP and Javascript. What I need is a way to retrieve the string from the server, so I can parse it and get it onto the webpage. I also need to keep the page updated with the currently playing song. I have done research but I haven't had much luck. What is the best way to do this? PHP? Javascript? I am fairly new to web development, I have little PHP and Javascript experience. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Jump to PostIf you want to keep the player playing while users navigating the site you'll need to resort to AJAX or even better to the HTML5 History API (with AJAX hashbanging as fallback).
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