Thank you, I can't believe I forgot about mplayer... it plays the AAC streams fine.
I guess mocp needs recompiling.
btw, I'm very impressed with tiny core so far. I installed on an old Wyse winterm, I tried Ubuntu first but it took several hours to install, was jerky and took almost 3GB of disk space. tiny core feels fast and is only 65MB or so on disk
Amazing.