Is it possible to play this stream using HTML5/javascript?

Question

Basically trying to play some live audio streams in an app I'm porting to the browser.

Stream example: http://kzzp-fm.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/877/19757/v1/auth.akacast.akamaistream.net/kzzp-fm/

I have tried HTML5 audio tag and jPlayer with no luck. I know next to nothing about streaming audio, however, when I examine the HTTP response header the specified content type is "audio/aacp" (not sure if that helps).

I'm hoping someone with more knowledge of audio formats could point me in the right direction here.

Answer 1

The problem isn't with AAC+ being playable , the issue is with decoding the streaming ACC wrapper called ADTS. The Audio Data Transport Stream [pdf] or "MP4-contained AAC streamed over HTTP using the SHOUTcast protocol" can be decoded and therefore played by only a couple media players (eg, foobar2000, Winamp, and VLC).

I had the same issue while trying to work with the SHOUTcast API to get HTML5 Audio playback for all the listed stations . Unfortunately it doesn't look like there's anything that can be done from our perspective, only the browser vendors can decide to add support for ADTS decoding. It is a documented issue in Chrome/WebKit . There are 60+ people (including myself) following the issue, which is marked as "WontFix".