Well, i no know if i’ve understod all of your trouble…i’ve trying a lot of possible solutions to both of the concepts, and i finally have solved all of two lines:

Audio Refreshing
Shoutcast stats data

In a Flash/AS2 .swf generated app.

It is fully based on the most viable current solution was posted at MadArco’s DevBlog, but i have added a few of little goods, as;

VolumeControl – This affects all of the URL’s (same URL repeated) in MadArco’s App.
StopSound Button – This stops all of the sounds within the swf
PlaySound Button – This refreshes the same URL as a new sound each time you click
(After you stopped).

Stats (Broadcast items data) as; Who is OnAir and Wich song are sounding right now that are pulled from shoutcast (real time) via a couple of PHP files on server to swf file.
These PHP files refresh themselves each certain time (in my case, 3 minutes), and data pulled to swf file refresh itself too, each 3 minutes.

I’ve finished it just today (right now), but i haven’t an available server to try it.

It theorethically must functions all itself.

If you want to try, please contact me at:

zegabriel3@hotmail.com

Cheers!.

Gabriel (Mexico).