HTTP Streaming question?

My friend has been trying to use some broadcasting equipment and what not and set up his own local web server and try to stream music into SL through that. I don't know exactly how he is doing all of that and what he is exactly doing. However, I wanted to make a XY text based board, that would be connected to the stream. So that way, when he played a song, it would show the artist's name and song title on the board. I saw someone do this A LONG time ago, and I was wondering how I would go about doing this?
Thanks!

I know you can update your twitter status from within Second Life via an application that you send a request to and what not, I was wondering if there is a known application that I do the same thing with for this? I just don't know where to begin.

most streams provide a page that lists the current song info.... most of them are set up with xml. some of the older solutions used RPC/xml to parse those, but it can also be done via httprequest *IF* the page is small enough. if it isn't you'd have to poll a search page to grab the exact element you need to update your inworld announcer.

Or, work with your friend in setting it up so his application sends the stream information directly inworld to your script via http-in.