Streaming Shoutcast station in iPad

Question

Hi,

I am developing an iPad application for live streaming from Shoutcast radio stations. I could get the playlist URL as mentioned in the API documentation: http://dev.aol.com/SHOUTcast/documentation

I parsed and obtained the URL of the form "http://xxx.yyy.zz.ww:nnnn" which could be played using iPhoneStreamingPlayer sample code.

Sometimes I am not able to stream from Shoutcast stations. Also, I could never stream from station with Codec Type AAC. But, I could stream the corresponding .pls URL using webview; if I use webview I will not be able to customize the controls.

Could someone tell me how Shoutcast apps are able to stream in iPad.

Thanks and regards, Deepa