Starting with the Microsoft example code for the Background Audio Player, it was less than obvious how to make it work with a Shoutcast stream. If you go to a Shoutcast stream with using a standard HTTP GET request (i.e. from a web browser), you’ll get a web page, giving some details on the stream. The trick to making it actually stream the audio is adding a slash then a semi-colon followed by a MP3 filename. Here is an example using a BassDrive.com stream (paste the full url without the quotes…