title: Playing mp3 Shoutcast streams with HTML5 audio in Firefox?
body: <p>I'm trying to play mp3 shoutcast stream radio stations with HTML5 audio.</p>
  
  <p>I don't think it will be relevant but here is the code anyway:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var player = new Audio();
  player.autobuffer = true;
  player.src = "http://173.192.48.71:9048/;";
  player.volume = 1;
  player.play();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Shoutcast detects that request comes from browser and returns radio status page, so I put ";" at the end of stream which forces server to return audio stream instead of status page. This works fine in Chrome and Safari, but not in Firefox.</p>
  
  <p>Firefox for some reason detects this as text/plain content and refuses to play it with this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>HTTP "Content-Type" of "text/plain" is not supported. 
  Load of media resource http://173.192.48.71:9048/; failed.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I used Fiddler to inspect what is being sent from shoutcast server and it clearly states "content-type: audio/mpeg". Is there any way to force Firefox to play the shoutcast stream with HTML5 audio?</p>