Displaying iTunes radio information in Apple Menu Bar

I know that you can get software and plug-ins which show song information etc in the Apple Menu Bar so you don't have to keep switching back to iTunes to see what is being played - but can this be done for radio broadcast information? The software I've seen - Barquee, Quick Tunes, My Tunes etc - only appears to work for stuff being played on CD or from your iTunes Library? I want to be able to see the song title and artist information that appears in the iTunes menu bar. Is a problem caused by scrolling information?
Any suggestions gratefully received so I can listen to Aural Moon without having to constantly switch between applications!

Streams do not always contain the appropriate tag information for display by these utilities, so it may be out of your control to display.
I use "youcontrol" from You Software. Its "ticker" display works well, but I can't test with Aural Moon to see if it works with their stream.

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