Goal: To get the trackinfo from an internet radio stream onto a LCD. The first step: To get MPlayer to write to a file we use this command: >mplayer -playlist http://www.chronixradio.com/chronixaggression/listen/listen.pls 2>&1|tee /var/log/mplayer.log We can look at the file: >cat mplayer.log|grep "ICY" ICY Info: StreamTitle='Opeth - Blackwater Park';StreamUrl='www.opeth.com'; But we get extra info we don't want. A PHP-script and a regular expression fixes this: >php mplayerinfo.php Opeth - Blackwater Park Another version of the scripts also writes info to a file: The next step is to install perl-LCDd-0.03 from http://www.webbastards.com/projects/, a Perl library to create lcdproc-clients. From the example provided in the sources I built my own script which uses the information from var/run/nowplaying used above and puts the last row on the LCD. Nice, the goal is reached!