I have a few tracks with lyrics on them and when I try streaming them with mark's interface,they play in winamp but the lyrics aren't displayed.
The SYLT lyrics plugin says" error can't get song length from winamp"
Is it just not possible to do this?

Winamp has no way of knowing where the end of the song lies in streaming mode. That's the point of streaming, it starts playing before the whole file is there.

Perhaps there's a way the SYLT plugin could be changed to just "not care" about where the endpoint is?

Do you know why it doesn't work for me?
Does it work for you/anyone else?

Interesting. Okay, I'll try it...

Okay, cool. When I stream from Hijack, I do get the proper song length to come up in the WinAmp window. Maybe it's his version of WinAmp?

However the SYLT plugin still doesn't work, it gives me a different error message, it says "no lyrics found" in the title bar instead of complaining about the song length. Interestingly, if I ask WinAmp for the file properties, it doesn't show me the contents of the tag, although it does tell my that the file *has* an ID3V2 tag and how many bytes long it is.

Perhaps WinAmp just doesn't offer the tag contents to its plugins when it's in streaming mode.

Yeah. I'm pretty sure when streaming it will ignore any tags actually in the file and use the information from the server instead. Thats what I gathered when I was poking around in the icecast code to write my own streamer.

I think he *must* have meant http, because I don't know of any way to stream to winamp using FTP.

Yes that is correct, "he" meant http.