Today the team of SHOUTcast presented the new SHOUTcast Flash Player mini.

Starting from now, you do not get the download of the listen.pls file of every streamserver if you click “Tune In” but it appears a Popup with an included Flash Player.

On the one hand it is just a trend to listen to web radios via web player, because YouTube & Co. are using all that via Flash very successfully and you do not have to own an external media player.

On the other hand you are still able to load the TuneIn links with using a common media player like WinAmp. You can choose what you desire! If you have cookies activated, you can see what you were listening to at last.

Here you get the latest news of the SHOUTcast team:

Thats right SHOUTcast Users!

We’ve implemented a new major update to SHOUTcast.com that will allow you to listen to any of the thousands of radio stations in the SHOUTcast directory through a mini pop up player. However, note that you can still choose to continue to listen to SHOUTcast stations through your preferred media player, such as WinAmp, iTunes or Windows Media Player.

To Try Out our New Pop Up Player

Simply click on the “Tune In” link next to any station in the SHOUTcast directory. From there, the pop up player will show up with play, stop, volume controls as well as the SHOUTcast directory underneath the player for easy browsing. *NOTE: The miniplayer requires the latest version of Adobe Flash. Also, the miniplayer only supports stations that stream in MP3 – due to some known-issues with streaming AAC+ content in Adobe Flash.

To Keep Listening Using Your Favorite Media Player

Clicking on it will pop up the settings window (below). Here, you can choose to use the SHOUTcast Radio Mini Player or switch to using your regular Default Media Player (such as Winamp, Windows Media or iTunes).

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