Thats the thing. Nobody was talking about ID3! The internet radio DJ software (the DSP of SHOUTcast, IceCast, etc) reads the metadata (ID3v1, ID3v2, or some other format) and tells this to the internet radio server software (SHOUTcast, IceCast, etc itself) which then uses ICY-META to let the media players know this information. The media player doesn't get the MP3 and read the ID3 metadata for there is no ID3 metadata. All the media player has to do is heads up when it receives a ICY-META from the internet radio server software. Normally, media player receives this right after first connect, and when DSP announces it succesfully to server.