Impossible to know ID3 tags, icecast stream

Hello,
I am the French user.
One of our server broadcasts a mp3 audio stream which
contains ID3 tags.
I wrote a tiny audio player in Flash (actionscript 2.0).
In my code, I use a Sound object.
At the moment the player can play and stop the music.
I want to show the title of the current song using
id3.songtitle attribute or
id3.TIT1 or id3.TIT2... but all id3 attributes return
'undefined'.
Media players like iTunes, Windows Media Player or VLC
display this
information very well.
Moreover, the onID3() method is never call.
How can I retrieve ID3 tags in an actionScript code?
Thank you for your help.
best regards,
My code :
mp3 = new Sound();
/*load from our icecast server */
mp3.loadSound("
http://webradio.son-video.com:8000/test.mp3",true);
mp3.onLoad = function(success) {
mp3.start();
stop_sounds_btn._visible=true;
play_sounds_btn._visible=false;
mp3.onID3 = function (){
titre_txt.text=mp3.id3.songtitle;
function showid3(){
titre_txt.text=mp3.id3.songtitle;
setInterval(showid3,1000);
stop_sounds_btn.onRelease = function() {
mp3.stop();
stop_sounds_btn._visible=false;
play_sounds_btn._visible=true;
play_sounds_btn.onRelease = function() {
mp3.start();
stop_sounds_btn._visible=true;
play_sounds_btn._visible=false;
}

1. The audio file will not load for me when I test.
2. There is no id3 songtitle attribute. I believe you are
looking for id3.songname.

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http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6567/picture2rxl.png
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http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8702/picture1zkg.png

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Message was edited by: JJulian (added screenshot)

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3. Author
To see if it worked: http://givnology.com/eve/forums/a/ga/ul/8341026442/WhatYouSynco.mid
This is also all in my site's discussions here: http://givnology.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/80560593/m/7641057422 well the easy way is:
http://Givnology.com/music and click the "First try MIDI" topic. I wanted to let you know that I did find at least THIS MUCH of a solution...
In the © tag I put some good relational database type cross indexables.... yay!

ID3 tags in MP3 files

Hello everybody!
How can I read the ID3 tags from an MP3 file? Not just the title, artist and album. All of that. I know the last 128 bytes are reserved for ID3 tags in version 1. But in version 2 (and over) have a lot of other tags, like the album picture (APIC), year (TYER). So how can I do that?
By Gericop
P.S.: I don't want to use a 3rd party package...
Edited by: Gericop on Feb 2, 2008 7:17 PM

It's not an XML format. If you read this last 128 bytes, you can see title, album and some more infos, but you have to parse it yourself. That isn't hard. But I don't know, how can I determine the v2 tags (and their size).

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version 7.5
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