Play a stream (shoutcast or other) in mplayer, but display the song name in the title bar

terminal_title_play

#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess
import re
import sys


url = 'http://de.scenemusic.net/necta48.aac'

# Mods and chiptunes tunes often have too high stereo separation, soften it with
# panning:
p = subprocess.Popen(['mplayer', '-af-add', 'pan=2:0.8:0.5:0.5:0.8', url],
                     stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
                     bufsize=1)

for line in p.stdout:
    if line.startswith('ICY Info:'):
        info = line.split(':', 1)[1].strip()
        attrs = dict(re.findall("(\w+)='([^']*)'", info))
        title = attrs.get('StreamTitle', '(none)')
        sys.stdout.write("\x1b]2;" + title + "\x07")
        print title
        sys.stdout.flush()