G1 Does not "support" Audio Streaming

[djdanska]

Originally Posted by wbexpress

Can you please give specifics? I'm clicking on USA, then classic rock, it only shows one station. Is there in fact a way to put in a specific url and have that play? Thank you.

Yes, you can add stations. This is how to do it.
Login to http://mycast.orb.com
Go to Open Application, then Audio
Click on Internet Radio
On the top, in the white, click on Add Custom. Enter the stream's address.

[wbexpress]

Unbelievable! It works! Thanks so much! Now if we get a pdf viewer and a backup for apps on the phone I think my G1 experience will be complete. One last thing: maybe a stupid question, but, the player working is not dependent on being within wi-fi range of the host/home computer, is it?

[sti3]

The mycast situation is far from ideal IMO. No metadata and it actually plays the stream on your home PC and uses your home upstream to stream it to your phone, which doesn't make much sense to me. There's also Nagare.

[anon123456]

I was messing around for about 45 minutes this morning and I discovered why I could not stream mp3s off my website.

The website is password protected.

I can access the website just fine, but when I clicked on a song to play (or even manually entered the address), I would get an error.

I moved a test song into a non password-protected directory on my website and it played just fine. It seems that the web browers is equipped to handle password-protected content but the media player is not.

It presents me with a dilemma as the website is password protected so that only I can access it to avoid any legal issues. I hesitate to remove the passwords on the music directory, but the desire to point at Iphone users and laugh as I tell them I just stream my music is overwhelming

[inportb]

If you just want to show off, why not just post some free audio for the purpose?

[secrecyguy]

i have no idea what you are talking about.

Go to Android market on your G1 and click on multimedia. There you will find, Antplayer, LastFM, Nagare, and StreamFurious. It will do what you want it to do.

[Albatross]

No, Antplayer, LastFM, Nagare and StreamFurious do NOT do what people want. If you do not have any idea what someone is talking about, it is rather arrogant to pretend you know what will address their issues.

The problem is that I should not need to subscribe to some website in order to listen to arbitrary streaming audio. If my buddy Tim decides to hook up a microphone in his house and stream his guitar practice off of his home web server, ShoutCast isn't going to have that on their list, and I don't see why I need to tell Orb about Tim's webserver in order to listen to Tim. I should be able to open

http//timswebsite.con/myguitarpractice.htm

And the asf file linked there ought to be able to stream live audio of his practice. Without talking to ShoutCast. Without talking to Orb.

This is a TRIVIAL process. The app for this would be tiny and trivial to write. And yes, I COULD write it, but I'm not going to reinvent the wheel if this functionality is already out there (which it ought to be). I could do this with my Windows Mobile phone three years ago - why can't I do this with my Android??

[sti3]

But if Tim encoded in .mp3 and there were a .m3u or a .pls linked there you would be able to open in Streamfurious or Nagare (these programs can be set to automatically open these file types).

So you are basically complaining that your preferred format is not supported. I happen to think aac+ is the best format for streaming but none of these programs support those streaming formats even though the music player can play local AAC+ files natively. Yet am I frothing at the mouth over this? Not really.

I'm guessing you could play that stream with your winmo phone because Microsoft pushes their audio format above all others.

[Albatross]

Originally Posted by sti3

But if Tim encoded in .mp3 and there were a .m3u or a .pls linked there you would be able to open in Streamfurious or Nagare (these programs can be set to automatically open these file types).

So you are basically complaining that your preferred format is not supported. I happen to think aac+ is the best format for streaming but none of these programs support those streaming formats even though the music player can play local AAC+ files natively. Yet am I frothing at the mouth over this? Not really.

I'm guessing you could play that stream with your winmo phone because Microsoft pushes their audio format above all others.

I don't have a 'favorite' audio format, and I don't really care about the politics of the situation. My concern is that I have a set of radio stations that I used to listen to on my Winmo phone, and now they don't work. Apparently I 'upgraded' to the Android in order to lose functionality. And that's all I care about - functionality. I don't care what's "best," and I don't care if Steve Jobs or Bill Gates is the bigger jerk, I care when I discover I've spent money only to lose functionality.

But okay, I appreciate your filling me in that the problem is that the ASF format is not supported. Therefore if I REALLY care, I can find a Linux-based ASF player (like Mplayer) and adapt it to the Android.

[humblehyper]

I have some videos and what is the ideal format so it will show up good in my G1? 3gp? mpg?.......