Standard Shoutcast servers broadcast audio in the MP3 format. While modern HTML5 <audio> tags support MP3 files , they often struggle with MP3 streams due to "ICY" metadata intervals.
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For Shoutcast v1, the URL structure usually looks like: http://your-server-ip:port/;stream.mp3 Standard Shoutcast servers broadcast audio in the MP3 format