Question

I did see this question but not much on .NET…

I want to write .NET code to connect to a web server streaming SHOUTcast (Winamp) audio content (if anyone is interested, the URL is http://live.radiotrinitas.ro:8000/) and record it.

But I don’t know much how to do it.

Just open the HTTP connection, and stream it off to a file on the disk?

There are some headers that appear to be in the content (or so it seems to me) and I don’t know what the format is so how to name the extension of the file (MP3?)

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Update1 :

I did try to connect using HttpWebRequest but it throws up saying ProtocolViolation.
Then I tried connecting using TcpClient and it doesn’t send back anything. I guess it awaits some starting command. I don’t know this, apparently proprietary (?), protocol…

Answer 1

Well it seems someone over CodeProject posted something useful and working!

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-video/SHOUTcastRipper.aspx

To run the code snippet you need to set the following configuration :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <system.net>
    <settings>
      <httpWebRequest useUnsafeHeaderParsing="true"/>
    </settings>
  </system.net>
</configuration>