A simplified Version of the Icecast Title-Script from the @Radio-Zoom API

now-playing-simple.php

<?php
/**
 * This script can be used to grab artist - title information from an Icecast2 server. No server Password is required because all information are available public.
 *
 * The default JSON File access on Icecast2 can be used on unhidden mount points only.
 *
 * @package     
 * @license     http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html AGPL Version 3
 * @author      Malte Schroeder <post@malte-schroeder.de>
 * @copyright   Copyright (c) 2017-2020 Malte Schroeder (http://www.malte-schroeder.de)
 *
 */



header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
$server1 = 'your.server.something:80' ; //your icecast server address including port, without the ending "/"
$mount1 = '/192k.mp3' ; //your radio's mount point, with the leading "/"
error_reporting(0);

$stream1 = getStreamInfo($server1, $mount1);


if (($stream1['info']['status']) == 'OFF AIR') {
				echo "Zur Zeit leider keine Titelinformaitionen";}
				else {
				echo $stream1['info']['artist_song'];
				}

// Actually I don't remember where I found the code basis for his. If you recognize your code and want to be mentioned here, please just let me know.

function getStreamInfo($icecastserver, $icecastmount){
	if($str = file_get_contents('http://'.$icecastserver.'/status-json.xsl?mount='.$icecastmount)){
	#$str = utf8_decode($str);
	$json_a = json_decode($str, true);
	
		if(empty($json_a['icestats']['source']['bitrate'])) {
			$stream['info']['status'] = 'OFF AIR';	
		} 
		else{
				$stream['info']['status'] = 'ON AIR';
				$stream['info']['title'] = $json_a['icestats']['source']['title']; 
				$stream['info']['description'] = $json_a['icestats']['source']['server_description']; 
				$stream['info']['type'] = $json_a['icestats']['source']['server_type']; 
				$stream['info']['start'] = $json_a['icestats']['source']['stream_start']; 
				$stream['info']['bitrate'] = $json_a['icestats']['source']['bitrate']; 
				$stream['info']['listeners'] = $json_a['icestats']['source']['listeners']; 
				$stream['info']['max_listeners'] = $json_a['icestats']['source']['listener_peak']; 
				$stream['info']['genre'] = $json_a['icestats']['source']['genre']; 
				$stream['info']['stream_url'] = $json_a['icestats']['source']['listenurl'];
				$stream['info']['artist_song'] = $json_a['icestats']['source']['title'];
					$x = explode(" - ",$json_a['icestats']['source']['title']);
				$stream['info']['artist'] = $x[0]; 
				$stream['info']['song'] = $x[1];
		}
	}
	return $stream;
	}

?>

This is a tool Script that does not output anything directly. Either you modify it to output directly or you create another script that handles the output by calling this script.