I like Iceberg Radio and usually listen to their 2Kool4Radio station at work. They offer a plethora of stations, spanning almost every genre of music you can think of, and it’s all free. However, Iceberg Radio‘s website doesn’t play nicely with Firefox. I shouldn’t say that. The website itself is fine with Firefox, but… When you listen to a station, a new browser window is launched and in that window is an embedded Windows Media Player. Everything works fine in Firefox as far as streaming the audio goes. But if you want to know the artist and the name of the track you’re currently listening to, you would have to go back to Iceberg Radio‘s website and look up the info based on the station you’re currently streaming. If you’re an Internet Explorer user, you don’t have to worry…you always get to see the artist and track info in the window containing Windows Media Player. Why do Internet Explorer users have it so good? A Microsoft web browser (IE) with a Microsoft technology (Windows Media Player); it’s pretty obvious. What’s a Firefox-using music lover to do?
No problem. I wrote a Greasemonkey script that will continuously put the artist name and song title in the title bar of the window that contains the media player. So now Iceberg Radio listeners who are also Firefox users can simply look at the window’s title in their Windows taskbar (or Mac OS X Dock) to find out which song is currently playing, instead of having to surf over to Iceberg Radio‘s website, find the station they’re currently listenin to and look up which song is currently playing.
If you already have the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox installed, then you can get and install my script from either Greasemonkey’s list of scripts or directly from right here (it all links back to my website anyway). Enjoy!
