I replaced my iPhone3G with an Atrix.
I am having trouble finding a good ap for access to custom audio stream URLs. The streams that I would like to connect to are all mp3, some require authentication.
Can anyone suggest an ap?
Thank you.
Try an app called "Astro Player Nova". Select Radio from the menu and enter your custom audio stream URL. There is also an app called "just playlists" in the market. You can create a pls or m3u file with your url and use Just Playlists to listen to these urls.
Thanks for the tip. I will give it a try. A good streaming ap is the only thing I miss about my old iPhone.
Is it possible that Atrix has an issue with streaming audio? I haven't found any apps that will work at all, including the two you mentioned.
Thanks
Well I am sure Atrix can stream audio becuase my audiogalaxy app works. Try xiialive. It can also stream custom urls
I tried xiialive as well as AOnlineRadio. When trying to connect to mp3 streams, both aps (and many others) fail and report "Null"
Streams are known good as I can play them on an iPhone with fStream and many others.
I use "doggcatcher" for all of my podcasts, urls and rss feeds. I went through the same transition when I went from a 3gs to a Captivate last year. Works on my Atrix as well
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Here are the .rm addresses of some BBC radio stations for live broadcasts.
I got these by installing Real Player Alternative (google it!) on my pc which plays the streams back through Media Player Classic. I then brought up the "Playlist" function in Media Player Classic and hovered the mouse over the encoded address which gave me the true .ra stream information to put into Real Player for PPC.
I have tested all the streams on my x7500 and they work a treat. I get a coach from Balsfjord to Tromsø (1,5hrs) every day and it has a free wifi connection for the passengers so now I listen to the BBC.
This method will also work to get stream information for shows kept on the BBC iplayer for 7 days. So if there is a live broadcast you missed you can listen anytime.
If you put these addresses into a text file and then rename the file name extention .rm e.g. Radio2.rm (not the stream address!) on your Advantage you can use them as buttons on something like claunch that will auto open in Real Player PPC.
rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra
rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio2/live/r2_dsat_g2.ra
rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio3/live/r3_dsat_g2.ra
rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio4/live/r4_dsat_g2.ra
rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio5/live/r5_dsat_g2.ra
rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/6music/live/6music_dsat_g2.ra
rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/bbc7/live/bbc7_dsat_g2.ra
The BBC is soon to switch it's iPlayer audio streams over to AAC but the method should work again so long as you can open the stream in Media Player Classic to get the address and then find a new piece of Software that will play AAC streams on the Advantage. (I think Mort's Player may do this already).
enjoy
Another way is to go to www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/radio/listen for WM and RM links for all BBC radio stations
or
http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/pda/
Thanks guys.
I only listed the live feeds as an example of how to expose the true .rm stream. I know they are freely available elsewhere but I still have not found a regular resourse for the "listen again" streams in iPlayer. As I said in my post you can find the stream address for any shows over the last 7 days via the method I put up.
I should have made that that main point clearer, I know.
opps... thanks matt- i for one should have read your first post more clearly
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opps... thanks matt- i for one should have read your first post more clearly
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Thanks for the links though, i lost radiofeeds way back and couldn't remember its name. A senior moment
Only been playing with it for a little bit, but there's a new VLC compatible streaming client available on the Market called VLC Stream & Convert.
It allows you to run VLC on a client on your lan (be sure to add the Web control interface from VIEW/ADD INTERFACE) and connect to it. You can either remote control VLC from the phone....or..you can stream video to your phone from the client side app with a simple filesystem browser.
Though the realtime conversion and streaming isn't the best quality it's most definitely handy and orders of magnitude more seamless than dealing with DLNA.
Maybe everyone else isn't a hardcore media geek with terabytes of video spread about a home lan like me. But this addition to the market makes me happy!
Thought I'd share.
Scott
This looks really cool. Will definitely try this tomorrow after work!
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Only been playing with it for a little bit, but there's a new VLC compatible streaming client available on the Market called VLC Stream & Convert.
It allows you to run VLC on a client on your lan (be sure to add the Web control interface from VIEW/ADD INTERFACE) and connect to it. You can either remote control VLC from the phone....or..you can stream video to your phone from the client side app with a simple filesystem browser.
Though the realtime conversion and streaming isn't the best quality it's most definitely handy and orders of magnitude more seamless than dealing with DLNA.
Maybe everyone else isn't a hardcore media geek with terabytes of video spread about a home lan like me. But this addition to the market makes me happy!
Thought I'd share.
Scott
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You may have just solved a problem for me... I am having some issues though.
I have it installed and working. I find my VLC player through the app and can start videos no problem, but there is no audio.
What AAC encoder are you using on your system? Im running on Win7 and cant seem to get it working.
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You may have just solved a problem for me... I am having some issues though.
I have it installed and working. I find my VLC player through the app and can start videos no problem, but there is no audio.
What AAC encoder are you using on your system? Im running on Win7 and cant seem to get it working.
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On all the PC's on the home lan I now only ever install VLC, Media Player Classic Home Cinema, and FFDSHOW. VLC's built in AAC decoder generally handles things fine, but if it gets confused (in the case of some encodes with weird FOURCC headers) FFDSHOW usually picks up the slack externally.
I'll run through my collection (it's well over 3 terabytes now so it might take a bit) and see if I run across anything with AAC that this stumbles over. I'm running Win7 x64 on this laptop, so it'll be my guinea pig.
I have a good idea of a few known encodes I have with weird AAC audio header info, primarily because they also won't play natively correctly in the phone's built in video player or rock player. I'll let you know what I find out.
EDIT: Well that didn't take long. It seems that the same encodes with .AAC audio that give the built in player grief (as well as Rockplayer) also refuse to have their audio play correctly in this streaming app. Even more interesting, these all play natively within VLC on the desktop. However, VLC, FFDSHOW, and my universal backup plan when encountering weird stuff that won't play (KMPlayer) all use LIBFAAD for .AAC decoding. Upon further investigation it appears that some .AAC profiles (there are actually six baseline types of .AAC audio...go figure) aren't properly supported by Android's native .aac parser (found this info on DoubleTwists support forums).
Looks like this is a native flaw in Android itself at this point. Going to investigate further. Thank god that there are literally only a handful of encodes in my collection that have this problem or I'd be pulling my hair out.
Can someone show me how to use this to stream over 3G??
I opened ports on my router and got my WAN IP entered but it won't let me connect.
Did you enable the Web Interface in VLC on the client PC? It is not on by defaut.
Start VLC on a PC on your lan, go to the VIEW menu....ADD INTERFACE...WEB INTERFACE. With that selected the android client should automatically find the VLC instance running on your lan connected PC. This assumes no additional firewall is blocking the app on the PC.
I got it working pretty good using wifi inside my network, so I think VLC is setup properly.
What I'm trying to do is to stream through t-mobile 3G.
I did the port forwarding in my router, but couldn't get the app to connect my home PC via 3G.
I've been able to get it to connect via 3G here, though only HTTP audio streaming seems to work. RTSP video streaming seems to be broken via 3g, and again this appears to be an Android issue from what I'm reading.
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I got it working pretty good using wifi inside my network, so I think VLC is setup properly.
What I'm trying to do is to stream through t-mobile 3G.
I did the port forwarding in my router, but couldn't get the app to connect my home PC via 3G.
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I've been able to get it to connect via 3G here, though only HTTP audio streaming seems to work. RTSP video streaming seems to be broken via 3g, and again this appears to be an Android issue from what I'm reading.
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From the dev's site, found here
"Why does rtsp streaming not work over 3G?
Some operators don't allow rtsp on their network. Http streaming should work instead but for videos you can only stream the audio track."
If its true that t-mobile is blocking RTSP then that sucks. Im going to play with it tomorrow and see for myself.
If this doesnt work then Im back to square one. I really wanted to find a way to use the Twonky media server I already have setup and streaming. I have been streaming videos to friends and family for about half a year now. My Fios 30mb up 30mb down even allows me to stream 720p content over UPNP without so much as a hiccup.
First person that can manage to remove the wifi only option in AllShare gets access to my collection. . I have been trying to find it but im not really sure what im looking for in the code.
Thanks to a tweet from Kmob, I just found out about SubSonic.
Its an open source media server that runs on windows/linux/mac and creates a very clean web interface for accessing all your media you have stored on your home network.
I have a windows box that I use as my media storage server. I installed subsonic in about a minute, configured it in under 3 (including setting up the paths to my specific media folders, and opening a port on my router)
They have an android app, installed it on my new atrix... setup the app to point to my router's dyndns address with the specific port I setup and BAM, done.
you select the media item you want to play via the very clean app interface, then it opens in a browser window showing a flash player. Make the player full screen and you are set.
From start to finish, I was watching House in less than 7 minutes.
Links:
Subsonic Web Page
Subsonic Android App (on Android Market website)
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Why aren't you using DLNA ?
I smell a plug.
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Why aren't you using DLNA ?
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Correct me if im wrong, but isnt DLNA for getting media stored on your phone to display on your tv? This lets you play media stored on your pc on your phone... On wifi or even 3g
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if by plug you mean trying to pass on information about a program that I found and thought was useful to me, then sure... I guess I'm plugging this
But if by "plug" you are insinuating that I am some how affiliated with the software or might profit from telling people about it, (here, I was going to say something about "plugging" and "your mom", but instead i'll assume you were just trying to be witty, and say...) you are mistaken.
And I plugged your mom
nice
nice reply and subsonic seems to be pretty amazing so far. Have not tried over 3g yet but if thats good then id say this is a good find.
I use Plex for all my streaming needs. Works well for $5!
windows and mac servers are avail
Does it have any authentication? If it does I might give it a try. I have been struggling to find a good streaming app with security. I have tried orb, plex and several others. Orb seemed to work ok as long as you dont have a large library. Plex didn't see alot of my files because they didn't meet its naming convention. Plex also had no easy way to set up security.
I miss Airvideo. It was and has been my only regret about leaving the Iphone.
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DLNA no audio
I am trying to use DLNA via a Windows 7 pc. Video shows up fantastic, but no audio, I hope I don't have to transcode the audio, some of them are AC3 and DTS.
Can Subsonic handle that?
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Does it have any authentication? If it does I might give it a try. I have been struggling to find a good streaming app with security. I have tried orb, plex and several others. Orb seemed to work ok as long as you dont have a large library. Plex didn't see alot of my files because they didn't meet its naming convention. Plex also had no easy way to set up security.
I miss Airvideo. It was and has been my only regret about leaving the Iphone.
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Yes, you can create multiple users, it even supports Ldap (windows domain user credentials)
I think it even supports ssl, but im not 100% sure on that.
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I am trying to use DLNA via a Windows 7 pc. Video shows up fantastic, but no audio, I hope I don't have to transcode the audio, some of them are AC3 and DTS.
Can Subsonic handle that?
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Subsonic handles transcoding flawlessly.
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if by plug you mean trying to pass on information about a program that I found and thought was useful to me, then sure... I guess I'm plugging this
But if by "plug" you are insinuating that I am some how affiliated with the software or might profit from telling people about it, (here, I was going to say something about "plugging" and "your mom", but instead i'll assume you were just trying to be witty, and say...) you are mistaken.
And I plugged your mom
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Apologies, I just briefly checked your other posts and came to the wrong conclusion. I've actually picked this up based on this thread and I'm enjoying it. I had the same issue with video but no audio, and it handles it great. Thanks for the heads up.
p.s. my mom would like to know when you're calling her back.
So I tried this and over all am happy with it.
I have been tweaking the settings to get things working well over 3g.
My friend on sprint 4G seems to have better results than me.
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Correct me if im wrong, but isnt DLNA for getting media stored on your phone to display on your tv? This lets you play media stored on your pc on your phone... On wifi or even 3g
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Actually, atrix can be acted as DLNA client which can play media stored in DLNA server. I use PS3 Media server on my mini mac to streaming avi files to my PS3 and Atrix. Only problem is I cannot watch some of avi files because of compatibility issue with codec - Atrix will say "not supported media type" sometimes.
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Actually, atrix can be acted as DLNA client which can play media stored in DLNA server. I use PS3 Media server on my mini mac to streaming avi files to my PS3 and Atrix. Only problem is I cannot watch some of avi files because of compatibility issue with codec - Atrix will say "not supported media type" sometimes.
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Correction noted, thank you.
Subsonic can install on a mac, and takes very little ram, so there probably wouldn't be much harm in running both (PS3 MS and subsonic) on your mac mini.
The real time transcoding SS does should eliminate any chance of codec compatibility issues.
I can vouch for SubSonic.. been using it for the past month, streams videos FLAWLESSLY. Way better then AirVideo for the iPhone, and a cinch to set up. In order to use the domain from another PC you have to donate, but it works for free streaming to the Android..... love this app so far.
Now if only Android can get the new version of iMobsters that was pulled from the appstore, and NHL 2K11, only then I can finally sell my iPhone 3GS.
Is this the same as Using the Open Source VLC Player to stream over http or rtsp? I'm using this now, and it works awesome...it converts and streams every file type VLC can play...with no buffering time over Wifi...and bearable buffering over 4G. But, here's the catch for me. You have to have VLC running all the time on PC side, with web interface enabled. So it it's not, I have to log in, remote control computer open VLC.
Is this way an application, or just a process running in the background on PC side? I'm sure I got some of the terminology confused a bit, as I'm not an expert...hopefully it's understandable though.
You may host, organize, and broadcast your video and audio to your website, apps, and other platforms without difficulty with Muvi Flex's audio streaming servers.
I would like to be able to stream the video and/or audio from the International House of Prayer in Kansas City prayer room.
I cannot post links but if you search IHOP-KC and then click on the Prayer Room at the top of the page it will take you to what I would like to see / hear. There are also links to stream using Windows Media and IPHONE/IPAD.
They have developed an IPAD/IPHONE app for it but not one for Android as of yet.
Is there a way I can play this with an app or anything?
I have tried several apps that susposed to allow you to play streaming audio but the ones I have tried do not work.
Thanks for any help.
The best way, so far, is to use m.yourmuze.fm. If you have an account with them there are several links on their site to the IHOP-KC Global Prayer Room. The only downside is that it streams through the video player and you wont be able to multi-task. Hope this helps.
Does anyone know any Android music players that stream from FTP/HTTP(S)? The only ones I know are Dice Player and ES File Explorer. The former has no playlist capabilities whatsoever, while the latter's playback capabilities are fairly restricted and clunky.
I think bsplayer can too.
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I think bsplayer can too.
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Thanks, I looked into it, and it seems it doesn't.
bump (too important a topic to let it sink)
Discovered one more that does ftp streaming, though as far as I can tell, it doesn't have much in the way of playlist capabilities: VLC for Android.
One more that does FTP streaming, and also has some playlist capabilities (not much though).
coconut music player
Though it lags a lot . even on my s4
XBMC for Android does it too, though it's way too clunky at the moment. My hopes are that the VLC people will eventually see the light...
Coconut music player.
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Coconut music player.
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Not really: Coconut does not do stream playback/streaming, but just downloads the track(s) and then starts playback. Nice try though
My FTP streaming findings.
Hi
I just found this thread so I thought I would resurrect it to see if the OP has found a solution?
My situation is I have an FTP server set up and I want to stream music to my S4. I have tested many players and the best I have found so far is MX Player as it has some buffering capabilities.
Trouble is that as MS Player has no inbuilt FTP support I have to open the file(s) using ES File explorer. Opening one file works a treat as you have the 'open as' option. But if you select multiple files you lose the open as option and ES File explorer defaults to using it's own media player which is some what lacking and has no inbuilt buffering capabilities. So when streaming in areas with poor reception the playback is jerky.
I tried using a playlist to get round this problem but MX player doesn't support them, anyway I am not sure that a playlist would work over FTP.
Player I have tried (that I can remember) are:
VLC - Works but no buffering (shame my favoured windows player)
ES Media player - can open multiple files in ES File explorer however no buffering.
Google media player - Same as VLC
XMBC Gotham nightly build - Couldn't find the FTP functions described in this post
FTP Media Player - disappointing and the title was so promising.
Also tried quite a few others all with the problem that you had to play through ES File Explorer and no buffering.
In short I am looking for a player that supports FTP and has buffering.
OR
A way to get ES File explorer to send multiple files to MX Player.
Cheers Dave
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I just found this thread so I thought I would resurrect it to see if the OP has found a solution?
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The solution I have found is to simply drop my quest for FTP streaming, and switch to HTTP(S) streaming. Better chances of finding a client-server pair. Currently using ServeStream for a client, and ServersUltimate for server. The latter is well worth the money, and then some.
VLC - Works but no buffering (shame my favoured windows player)
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Haven't tried this one recently. Did they build in any playlist capabilities in the meantime by any chance?
Google media player - Same as VLC
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What player is that? Never heard of it. Link? Is that Google's Play Music by any chance? I remember trying that, but it wouldn't stream from FTP.
XMBC Gotham nightly build - Couldn't find the FTP functions described in this post
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Dig a li'l deeper, and you'll find it. My issue was that it's too big and clunky. I need something much leaner, don't care much about all its myriad other features.
In short I am looking for a player that supports FTP and has buffering.
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Switch to HTTPS streaming. My advice.
A way to get ES File explorer to send multiple files to MX Player.
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Have you tried assembling an .m3u playlist and feeding it to MXPlayer or ES File Explorer?
Thanks for the speedy reply
I already have a HTTPS setup as well. I am running Windows server 2008 R2 and have used the inbuilt server functions in that.
But while ok (only OK though not amazing) for windows to windows, it's no good for Android as it uses Silverlight to play the file, I was hoping something would come from the Moonlight devs but that seems to have died a death now MS are planning to ditch Silverlight in favour of HTML 5.
I will defiantly check out ServersUltimate.
I really setup my FTP server as a bit of an exercise to start with, and then got round to thinking it would be cool to stream my music collection on the move.
No it would seem that VLC still doesn't have playlist capabilities. In fact I didn't have any luck with M3U playlists at all. But I am thinking this maybe due to trying them from a remote location? I may give one a go from a local location just to test this out.
AS for the Google app yes I was talking about Play music, the standard player that gets shipped with the phone.
I too thought XMBC was a bit to much and ended up uninstalling it after my initial look around seemed fruitless.
Looks like I will be looking into HTTPS alternatives. Shame it felt so close as I actually had something working.
Cheers Dave
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You should look into daap streaming instead. There are some free servers out there.
I've had a good experience with subsonic (subsonic dot org ) even though it's on the resource heavy end for my liking. It works better than any of the other alternatives I've tried.
Any news lately relevant to our HTTP(S) music streaming quest?
Hi all, I myself am looking for an FTP music streamer. Any new apps or updates on this subject?
Neutron Player for Android claims lots of support for network playing including CIFS/SMB and FTP. However I've never been able to get it to work. Give it a try, you may have better luck with it.
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Neutron Player for Android claims lots of support for network playing including CIFS/SMB and FTP. However I've never been able to get it to work. Give it a try, you may have better luck with it.
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Does it do streaming over HTTPS?
Jimthree said:
Neutron Player for Android claims lots of support for network playing including CIFS/SMB and FTP. However I've never been able to get it to work. Give it a try, you may have better luck with it.
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A year passed, and yet.
Neutron player didn't work for me either, it never able to find any files/directory in FTP.
Capriccio player works quite well