Here's the deal...I've set up a stream using Windows Media Encoder at 128K...sounds decent enough. It's not feeding a server...just coming from the computer through the router. Anyone know of an app for the Android smartphones that will stream this audio? Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a Windows Media Player for Android. There's a Winamp player but it doesn't want to play the stream. Anyone been down this path?
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Can this be done without the stream being published and/or royalties being incurred? Not desiring public listening to occur at this time. If so, please guide me in that direction.Bojcha said:
You are going to need to do an aac or mp3 stream if you want to do this...
Edcast?
Edcast?
You can set the stream as to be private (aka not published via Shoutcast's website/app etc) but basically you've got Windows Media Encoder, but unless you install the server side to their system you won't be able to connect. (it's been a whole since I played with it but more or less gave up because while not pretty, Icecast / Shoutcast were both much easier)
Otherwise there's Broadwave by NCH, but their software is never worth it.
...if you have a Mac you can use Nicecast which is basically a super easy Icecast server.
Otherwise there's Broadwave by NCH, but their software is never worth it.
...if you have a Mac you can use Nicecast which is basically a super easy Icecast server.
Windows Media Encoder will support up to 10 connections pulled directly from it, on a workstation license. If you have Windows Server, it'll do up to 32 connections at once, but... I can't recommend connecting with anything besides having a Windows Media Services server pull from it. Windows Media Services, of course, being able to host many more than 32 connections at once.
That being said... why a proprietary non-standard barely supported format like Windows Media?
That being said... why a proprietary non-standard barely supported format like Windows Media?
I'm just learning Jesse...and this is what I see running at many radio stations so it seemed like a good place to start...but quite possibly it won't be where I finish. I'm going to look Bojcha's suggestion above and see where that leads. I'm definitely not married to the Windows Media format.Jesse Graffam said:
Nick said:
If YOU stream publicly then YES you must pay royalties... However it's possible to have a shoutcast stream and stream privately so that only you know it exists (exp. if the server is running on an internal network).
I tried this and got it to sorta work. With my broadband connection, when it would work, the audio sounded like it was being shot through a reverb pelted with ping pong balls. The Edcast client was difficult to get the Line In to show and the slightest thing seemed to cause it to stop working. The WME system sounds heavenly and just runs. But I can't listen to it on my Android phone which is a deal breaker. Any other ideas? Has anyone used a Barix Instreamer and successfully decoded it on an Android phone?Bojcha said:
With the barix, yes, android phones can decode the mp3 stream, just add an internet radio stream, go to configuration, streaming, put something on the radio path, by default is xstream, conn. type internet radio, no ip address, just the port, open the apropiate ports on your router.
on your smart phone use xiia live or tunein radio apps to hear your stream, just add the stream like http://youripaddress:port/xstream and there you go.
I have only tested it with 64k and 128k bitrates,
on your smart phone use xiia live or tunein radio apps to hear your stream, just add the stream like http://youripaddress:port/xstream and there you go.
I have only tested it with 64k and 128k bitrates,
VLC is in beta for Android but it will play nearly every streaming format out there, although it doesn't have playlist support yet. Its the only player on Android that I have found which will stream WMA/WMA2 audio.
You have to manually install the apk file as its not available for download from Google Play yet. A modern android phone will likely be either Cortex A8 or A9, here is the download link:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/
You have to manually install the apk file as its not available for download from Google Play yet. A modern android phone will likely be either Cortex A8 or A9, here is the download link:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/
VLC does decode the stream on the desktop...great lead...thanks! On to the Android...
You'll need an app which at the very least has libMMS or similar compiled into it.
We used to have one until it was bought over :-/
If Tunein allows you to add a custom URL - why not give it a try? I believe they'd be able to support WMA
We used to have one until it was bought over :-/
If Tunein allows you to add a custom URL - why not give it a try? I believe they'd be able to support WMA
That would have made it too easy...and that's strictly forbidden by the rules. "TuneIn on Android does not currently support this functionality".andrewcrothers said:
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