I rewrote the original script to instead stop and then start playing the stream which I found causes the ad to be skipped entirely. I only tested this with DI.fm, but I would imagine this works with others. Please reach out with any questions. function descriptor()

   return {
      title = "Online Radio AD blocker",
      author = "joe.meszaros@gmail.com",
     version = 0.3,
      shortdesc = 'AdBlock',
     url = '',
      description = "It always annoying when a commercial unexpectedly interrupts your relaxation and tries to sell you irrelevant products and services again and again every day. Hey, what happened? I want to listen my online radio without ads! With this extension (after configuration) the volume level is automatically set to 0 when an AD is recognized",
      capabilities = {"input-listener"}
   }
end

   vlc.msg.info("... meta_changed ...")
   t = get_now_playing()
   vlc.msg.info("Now playing:")
   vlc.msg.info(t)
   prev = block
   block = string.find(t,"Digitally Imported.*TAG") or string.find(t, 'More of the show after these messages') or string.find(t, 'Get Digitally Imported Premium') or string.find(t, 'webex') or string.find(t, 'di.fm/premium') or string.find(t, "There's more to Digitally Imported!") or string.find(t, 'PhotonVPS.com') or string.find(t, 'DI.fm')
   if block then
      vlc.msg.info("Found AD, stop")
      vlc.playlist.stop()
	  vlc.msg.info("Go to first track in playlist")
	  vlc.playlist.goto(1)
	  vlc.msg.info("Replay stream to skip ad")
	  vlc.playlist.play()
   end
end

    local item = vlc.item or vlc.input.item()
    if not item then
        return ""
    end
    local metas = item:metas()
    if metas["now_playing"] then
        return metas["now_playing"]
    else
        return ""
    end
end

Hello dear Joe Meszaros, Thank you for great addon! It is very handy! I redesigned slightly the code of the addon:

function descriptor()
   return {
      title = "Online Radio AD blocker/silencer - eXtended",
      author = "joe.meszaros@gmail.com, me@serenissima.lt",
      version = 1.0,
      shortdesc = 'AdBlock eXtended',
      url = '',
      description = "It always annoying when a commercial unexpectedly interrupts your relaxation and tries to sell you irrelevant products and services again and again every day. Hey, what happened? I want to listen my online radio without ads! With this extension (after configuration) the volume level is automatically reduced to a desirable level when an AD is recognized",
      capabilities = {"input-listener"}
   }
end

function set_settings()
   ad_array = {}
   ad_volumefactor = {}

   smoth_vol_change = true
   vol_change_step = 1
 
   adstring = 1
   ad_array[adstring] = "AD"
   ad_volumefactor[adstring] = 1/3
   
   adstring = 2
   ad_array[adstring] = "SALE"
   ad_volumefactor[adstring] = 0.5
   
   adstring = 3
   ad_array[adstring] = "NEWS"
   ad_volumefactor[adstring] = 1.2
end

function meta_changed()
   now_playing = get_now_playing()
   vlc.msg.info('Now playing: '..now_playing)

   curr_volume = vlc.volume.get()
   if not ad_found then
      normal_volume = vlc.volume.get()	
   end  
 
   for vol_key,ad_value in pairs(ad_array) do
      if string.find(now_playing, ad_value) then
		required_volume = round(normal_volume * ad_volumefactor[vol_key], 0)
		ad_found = true
		break
	  end
	  required_volume = normal_volume
	  ad_found = false
   end
   
   if (curr_volume ~= required_volume) then
      if smoth_vol_change then	    
	     if curr_volume > required_volume then
		    step = -vol_change_step
		 else
			step = vol_change_step
		 end
		 for setvol = curr_volume, required_volume, step do
		    vlc.volume.set(setvol)
	     end	
	  else
	     vlc.volume.set(required_volume)
	  end
   end 
end

function activate()
	ad_found = false
    normal_volume = vlc.volume.get()
	set_settings()
end

function deactivate()
end

function get_now_playing(str)
    local item = vlc.item or vlc.input.item()
    if not item then
        return ""
    end
    local metas = item:metas()
    if metas["now_playing"] then
        return metas["now_playing"]
    else
        return ""
    end
end

function round(num, idp)
  local mult = 10^(idp or 0)
  return math.floor(num * mult + 0.5) / mult
end

I wasn't even able to download, when I pressed the download-Button a text page appeared which seems to be the sourcecode of the site

was not listed in menu View ubuntu 13.10 vlc new 2.0.6 cannt post output of vlc -vvv it's too long

Just a comment to confirm that this extension does appear to be working fine with VLC 2.1 on Windows 7.

if two ads are played consecutively, then volume_level is set to 0. To fix this, you can add an "if" like this: if block then vlc.msg.info("Found AD, set volume level to 0") if not prev then volume_level = vlc.volume.get() end vlc.volume.set(0) I also have an updated block for di.fm: block = string.find(t,"Choose premium.*") or string.find(t,"DI - Energizing") or string.find(t,"Digitally Imported.*TAG") or string.find(t, 'More of the show after these messages') or string.find(t, 'Get Digitally Imported Premium') or string.find(t, 'webex') or string.find(t, 'di.fm/premium') or string.find(t, "There's more to Digitally Imported!") or string.find(t, 'PhotonVPS.com') have fun!

nice addon, but wasn't easy to make it work for a beginner. * when I saved the file, some xml markup was added by my browser, so you want to check the content of the file and make sure nothing is appended. * to get the %APPDATA% folder, you can press start, type cmd, type: echo %APPDATA% * vlc 2.0.8 complained about missing descriptor() function, I added to the beginning of the script: function descriptor() return { title = "AdBlock", version = "0.1", author = "joemeszaros", url = 'hello', shortdesc = "AdBlock"; } end * for di.fm, I used a block like this one: block = string.find(t,"Digitally Imported.*TAG") or string.find(t, 'More of the show after these messages') or string.find(t, 'Get Digitally Imported Premium') or string.find(t, 'webex') or string.find(t, 'di.fm/premium') or string.find(t, "There's more to Digitally Imported!") or string.find(t, 'PhotonVPS.com') the list was taken from here http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/source/browse/plugins/events/radioadmute.py?spec=svn0d807ac2a1f919f1e008e0639b1d0ea530504a98&r=0d807ac2a1f919f1e008e0639b1d0ea530504a98