Actually, I was thinking of something more along the lines of using libcurl to do the job?

The one problem I do see in this idea is pre-caching the next song, if the next song is on a FTP/HTTP, however. FTP really isn't meant to be a 'streaming' protocol, after all.

<t>Interestingly enough, I've come to a point where I've found that many times, I have music for my AutoDJ distributed over two or three sets of FTP servers, belonging to various friends of mine with their own licenses to their music that they'd like to share with us and our AutoDJ. I could drag the...