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Simple problem. I have several thousand mp3s at home and want to stream them to my phone so that I have all my songs regardless of my location. Even an 8GB MicroSDHC card will not hold all the songs, so streaming is the next best alternative.
I've tried using ORB, and it's a great idea, but the interface through PIE leaves much to be desired. It's difficult to drive around and click the little links, even on large font. Also there is no easy way to queue songs up without making a playlist prior.
Are there any alternatives to ORB that have a better front-end? It'd be nice to have a touch-friendly scrolling type of "catalog" of my songs, and then stream/queue them when I select them. Doesn't seem so hard.
I even tried creating a home web page with IIS, and that worked to a point, but there's got to be something better.
Thanks!
cpujunky said:
Simple problem. I have several thousand mp3s at home and want to stream them to my phone so that I have all my songs regardless of my location. Even an 8GB MicroSDHC card will not hold all the songs, so streaming is the next best alternative.
I've tried using ORB, and it's a great idea, but the interface through PIE leaves much to be desired. It's difficult to drive around and click the little links, even on large font. Also there is no easy way to queue songs up without making a playlist prior.
Are there any alternatives to ORB that have a better front-end? It'd be nice to have a touch-friendly scrolling type of "catalog" of my songs, and then stream/queue them when I select them. Doesn't seem so hard.
I even tried creating a home web page with IIS, and that worked to a point, but there's got to be something better.
Thanks!
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I read in one of the other threads that SanDisk has announced a 12GB micro SD available this summer and they speculate that it may be a 16GB by the time it comes out.
I agree 100%...I love ORB but it is way too difficult to navigate.
They really have it all down except the few things you mentioned
Anyone else??
SelectRadio 4.0.2 ?
This prog has such an option, and I do use the program but have not tried it out for that so I do not know how well it works.
Lobster Tunes will do it for you. It's not free, though.
http://lobstertunes.com
Lobster looks pretty cool. I'm going to check it out and see if it offers a better experience than what I currently use (Andromeda - http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/home.asp).
sputnik said:
Lobster looks pretty cool. I'm going to check it out and see if it offers a better experience than what I currently use (Andromeda - http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/home.asp).
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What do you find bad about Andromeda? I was thinking about giving it a try...
Here is one I have been wondering about. What software can you use to stream your local radio stations to your phone? I know about tuned.mobi and such, but the problem is that when a game comes on, they usually block the broadcast of the audio stream even though it is playing on the local AM radio station. I want to be able to broadcast my local radio stations (AM and FM) to my phone so I can still get the games.
I wonder if someone could not write a program that integrates everything available through orb into you wmp library i.e. some sort of plugin maybee we could put together a donation pot to get one of the dev's to work on the project
djlenoir said:
Here is one I have been wondering about. What software can you use to stream your local radio stations to your phone? I know about tuned.mobi and such, but the problem is that when a game comes on, they usually block the broadcast of the audio stream even though it is playing on the local AM radio station. I want to be able to broadcast my local radio stations (AM and FM) to my phone so I can still get the games.
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you cant...if it isnt streamed, it cant be made out of thin air. get a radio.
dtrell said:
you cant...if it isnt streamed, it cant be made out of thin air. get a radio.
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lol, I have a radio...multiple radios. I think you may have misunderstood me. If I got something like this device would I be able to stream it to my phone? I travel... when I am in another state, I can not stream my local radio station broadcasts through the internet to listen to games (blacked out). However, they are playing on the radio station if I were at home and able listen to my radio.
well I think I finally found my cream of the crop... saw this thread and I have to say, andromeda is the BEST solution I've found for getting my music to my PPC...
it works very well with PIE and is very zippy zippy zippy...
I've tried:
1) lobstertunes - buggy, slow, doesn't work with all ROMs
2) gnump3d - buggy perl script, cool features but crashes a lot
3) orb - as you all have stated, interface sucks in PIE and too hard to navigate
4) andromeda - FAST, stable, and CLEAN... worth every penny of the $20 lol
I like the interface of Andromeda the best, not to mention it's speed. Although you can create a playlist, you still can't just "queue" one up...unless I'm missing something.
Took me some tweaks to get it to work too. Have to rename the asp to m3u and make it executable on the server. I also had to use a third party player.
What player are you using? Also, when I click on a file to stream, it always asks me if I want to overwrite the existing m3u. I say yes and it works fine, but ya know
cpujunky said:
Took me some tweaks to get it to work too. Have to rename the asp to m3u and make it executable on the server. I also had to use a third party player.
What player are you using? Also, when I click on a file to stream, it always asks me if I want to overwrite the existing m3u. I say yes and it works fine, but ya know
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Yup gotta do a few tweaks but it ends up workin'... yes same thing with overwiting the file but that's typical... I use TCPMP and it works flawlessly.
Zenoran said:
well I think I finally found my cream of the crop... saw this thread and I have to say, andromeda is the BEST solution I've found for getting my music to my PPC...
it works very well with PIE and is very zippy zippy zippy...
I've tried:
1) lobstertunes - buggy, slow, doesn't work with all ROMs
2) gnump3d - buggy perl script, cool features but crashes a lot
3) orb - as you all have stated, interface sucks in PIE and too hard to navigate
4) andromeda - FAST, stable, and CLEAN... worth every penny of the $20 lol
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I like both mundu and resco radio, but they are streaming only. I may try andromeda, PM me with details please.
Do you have a mac?
I'm not sure this would work for you, but it's something that I'm going to try once the needed adapter comes in.
I feel slingbox works really well on my phone and I use it to stream live TV. For my media files I'm planning on using my mac mini which has an IR sensor for the remote and Front Row. The front row interface is very similar to the interface on an ipod and the commands are supposedly supported by slingbox. Once I get the adapter for vga-svideo I will set it up. The only downside I can think of is that audio when watching TV doesn't come over in good quality unless I have it in audio only mode, but this might not be a problem with Front Row where there will be very little visual data transmitted for audio files.
The reason a mac mini is nice is that it has a built in IR sensor. This bet this will work with windows media center too if you have something to control it with IR. Another potential downside is that the computer pretty much needs to be dedicated to working as a media server lest you forget to put it back into media mode.
So, I am moving on up from my eris and wanted to set it up as a remotely controlled wifi stereo with my speakers. I was wondering if there was any way to use my new phone to remotely control it? (aside from having google voice set up on it with tasker so I can start an app) Any help would be appreciated.
I'm in the same situation as you. Recently upgraded, but still love my Eris and would love to re-purpose it. As far as your question goes I found this article that you might be interested in. XDA isn't letting me post a link but if you google "VNC android" look for "Remotely Control Android Phone [VNC Server]". The website is taranfx.com.
Now in the near future posts like this are going to become more and more prevalent as more people move away from the old Eris to bigger and better phones. I would be really excited if I could download a ROM for the Eris geared toward media player/iPod Touch like functionality. Maybe strip out phone and messaging stuff and pre-load some headphone controls, equalizers, video players or VNC functionality like the OPs question? I'm just throwing ideas around but I figured this would be a good place to put my suggestion.
zakalwe79 said:
I'm in the same situation as you. Recently upgraded, but still love my Eris and would love to re-purpose it. As far as your question goes I found this article that you might be interested in. XDA isn't letting me post a link but if you google "VNC android" look for "Remotely Control Android Phone [VNC Server]". The website is taranfx.com.
Now in the near future posts like this are going to become more and more prevalent as more people move away from the old Eris to bigger and better phones. I would be really excited if I could download a ROM for the Eris geared toward media player/iPod Touch like functionality. Maybe strip out phone and messaging stuff and pre-load some headphone controls, equalizers, video players or VNC functionality like the OPs question? I'm just throwing ideas around but I figured this would be a good place to put my suggestion.
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*IF* you use your computer as your media hub/server/DVR like me then you can remotely control VLC/VideoLAN and Media Player Classic for Home Cinema with Android apps for the purpose, over WIFI. I don't actually do it because my phone IS my internet right now, but it looks solid.
i was in the same situation a while ago too. someone told me about webkey. its in the market, and you can control the phone from anywhere (doesnt need wifi or bluetooth).
from what ive read, you can not directly connect to the phone if you live in america. i do, and whenever i try, the browser times out. using the webkey website and logging in however, works just fine. actions you do from the computer happen on the phone within 1 second, but sometimes it may take 3-4 seconds to refresh the picture on the website.
i will look into this vnc thing..
First step would be a way to toggle the CDMA radio off, while leveaing wifi and bluetooth on. I know you can use *#*#4636#*#*, but when you reboot the radio is back on.
Bump.
I too would like to re-purpose my Eris as a music or media player of some sort.
OK, I looked and I looked, I found a few threads on Motocast for Xoom and another device..........Has anyone used this on the Photon with a PC and what do you think?
Here is my delima. I used to have everything in folders on my PC, then I would drag-&-drop them to my SDHC Card, over time create some playlist, listen at pleasure, add some more.............
I just got new Gaming Desktop with 1.5TB HD and2.0TB Photom USB Drive. I listen to all types of music............Long story short, I have over 100Gb of music and videos I have on these. Putting my music and videos on Photon will never work. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I want to create playlist on PC and use Motocast to listen to music.
I have Windows7, so I put everything into C:\users\davidksims\music (videos, pictures, documents, etc. ). The only videos that show up are the one that were on the phone originally, not the ones I moved. Same with the pictures. When I attempt to open music in Motocast on my PC I get connection error.
I like the though that I can access ALL of my media content anywhere, anytime. I know I'm not normal (I have over 18,000 songs, 5000 pictures, and currently 15 HD Videos) but if this works.............
I could move EVERYTHING to External USB, then only move the media I actually currently listen to over to Desktop and assign to playlist to save on the phone, but that takes away from purpose of Motocast?
Any ideas will be appreciated.
EDIT: I forgot, after I loaded all my music and crap. I opened Media Player and ran update library. That should run until Christmas!!! 24 hours later and I'm at 8% update!
133 views and no opinion? Anything is better than nothing, just need an idea please.
Never heard of motocast before but I shall check it out.
According to moto, only the razr supports motocast wireless. The mopho will work in motocast usb only. Razr deving is fairly young at this point but once things pick up over there we may be able to pull the needed files and drop it in custom rom for the mopho. Til then your best bet will be a third party app.
Lokifish Marz said:
According to moto, only the razr supports motocast wireless. The mopho will work in motocast usb only. Razr deving is fairly young at this point but once things pick up over there we may be able to pull the needed files and drop it in custom rom for the mopho. Til then your best bet will be a third party app.
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I got this list from Motorola Motocast and Photon is supported: http://www.mymotocast.com/supporteddevices
Lokifish Marz said:
According to moto, only the razr supports motocast wireless. The mopho will work in motocast usb only. Razr deving is fairly young at this point but once things pick up over there we may be able to pull the needed files and drop it in custom rom for the mopho. Til then your best bet will be a third party app.
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I got this list from Motorola Motocast and Photon is supported: http://www.mymotocast.com/supporteddevices
EDIT: I see it now, no wireless.
Have you tried ZumoCast?
Try, Tonido you can stream you mp3&4s right off your Computer.
OK, I got ZumoCast, everything seems to work correctly except music. When I attempt to click music tab, I get:
"An error has occured that prevents the application from running:
Unable to get the property of the value 'Get': Object is null or undefined"
Any suggestions? Oddly, when I tried in MotoCast, I got same error. When I was uploading music, I did notice that some music could not be uploaded because of DRM (Copyright) error? If I get software to clean it up, will that cure it?
Thanks again, guys!
Thoughts on ZumoCast comment?
I read that MotoCast is very buggy for the PHOTON 4G.
deedscreen said:
I read that MotoCast is very buggy for the PHOTON 4G.
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No, I ment my trials with ZumoCast (which is also Motorola BTW!) Everything works wireless BUT my music.
Would something like this work with an external hard drive connected to my laptop?
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slicedcheese said:
Would something like this work with an external hard drive connected to my laptop?
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In Theory, yes it should! When I installed it, just like Motocast, it took the Windows7 defualts (c:\davidksims\users\music...........or Video, or Documents, whatever), you have the option to change it to........g:\myUSB\music. The only difference I see is, with Motocast, you can select MANY different folders, I did not see that in Zumocast?
Therefore, with Motocast, you can have music all over the place. But why? Organization is the key IMO.
I just wanted to say, I upgraded Motocast, it appears to be working now! (some parts anyway?)
c9chen said:
Have you tried ZumoCast?
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Love you man it works ALMOST like a charm exactly like I want it. My documents, music, videos, pictures all from home at my fingertips anywhere!!
The only 2 issues I have, off/on, sometimes the streaming music hiccups which is annoying. Second, HD videos, streaming, forget it.
BUT..........................................................
Download whatever playlist(s) you want to the phone, good to go. Same with Video!!
@ whoever ask about USB access, yes!!!! In settings (or whenever you install it) you can have it look for, let's say music, in as many folders as you want. It groups them together. For instance I have backups to my 2TB external, I see c:\users\davidksims\music and J:\music. When I get on ZumoCast, you have to pick a place. Now remember, if USB is not on, it will show it but it will be disconnected.
Thanks all!
EDIT: When you open ZumoCast and go to music, it initially takes a minute to see everything. after that your good to go unless you close ZumoCast, then it will do it all over again! Good Luck!
I like Zumocast. Although I haven't used it to listen to music.
anoroc44 said:
I like Zumocast. Although I haven't used it to listen to music.
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It baffles me why Motorola advertise MotoCast (which is unstable and only works on 2 headsets) when they have ZumoCast that is stable and works on almost all devices, and I never heard of it until I started this thread?
I use VLC Direct Pro...it works well enough.
Nerorising said:
I use VLC Direct Pro...it works well enough.
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Looks good and sounds great, but no documents? (which is just as important as music/video.) I remember back @ 7 years or so ago I had 4Gb SDHC and I was the bomb. I started with 32Gb @ 2 years ago and, technically, I could fit the most common of my files (music, pictures, video, *.PDF's) on my card, but with new technology, why when I can take my entire desktop with me?
I will keep VLC on my list if I get tired of free ZumoCast.
A couple of guys in the office have recently gotten iPads & the boss is now talking about getting a couple of iTV's for the meeting rooms - to compensate for the fact that they never put proper IT infrastructure in there...
Will it be possible for me to connect with my TP? I'd hope to be able to flick through images, show & mark up .pdf's and possibly open some CAD files on the telly screen. Being able to use YouTube & play movies would be a bonus...
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A couple of guys in the office have recently gotten iPads & the boss is now talking about getting a couple of iTV's for the meeting rooms - to compensate for the fact that they never put proper IT infrastructure in there...
Will it be possible for me to connect with my TP? I'd hope to be able to flick through images, show & mark up .pdf's and possibly open some CAD files on the telly screen. Being able to use YouTube & play movies would be a bonus...
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You didn't use use google didn't you?
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/airplay
One option would be doubleTwist with the optional AirSync plug-in (which adds the Airplay functionality). Otherwise, you could just mirror the Prime's display using the micro hdmi output directly to the television for a wider choice of content.
Robert
brantje said:
You didn't use use google didn't you?
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/airplay
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But this doesn't mirror the Prime's screen, which is what I'd like to be able to do. AFAIK that isn't currently possible. Correct me if I'm wrong. We have an AppleTv in one of our conference rooms at work and I would like to link to it for presentations, etc.
Thanks for the responses. It seems that the solution I'm looking for does not exist. Shame... I will however install one of the airplay apps & see how that works out.
brantje said:
You didn't use use google didn't you?
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/airplay
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I do actually. Do you understand the question I asked, because your link doesn't answer my question...
If you have a 3rd Gen Apple TV then doubletwist doesn't work with Video. It works well with Audio. I had a case going on with doubletwist where they ended up refunding me the cost of the Airsync plug in as it wasn't working as it was supposed.
I think with 2nd Gen Apple TV you might be alright, but I haven't tried it.
I was trying out an app called 'iMediaShare' or something of the likes the other day. I was able to go through photos, videos, music (as long as it is stored on your device and not in gMusic), and youtube over an Apple TV. Looking through it, I do not see any way to go through PDFs or CAD designs though. For everything, your best bet as of now would be to use the mini HDMI and find separate apps for everything.
I have tried both AppleTV media player & iMedia player, but I cannot even see the Apple TV in the devices list. Its a third gen...
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Hey all, I don't know if General is the correct location for this question, but it's the most-correct I could find for the moment. I use a Galaxy Tab S 8.4 (that's sadly on the fritz right now), and I haven't been able to find any media player for it since I got it that's set up for a tablet. The buttons are always small, the layouts are always off-center or just out of convenient reach, and they look absurdly stretched-out. I've tried searching Google and the app store for anything, but I can't seem to come across any decent "designed-for-tablet" players. Does such a thing exist? Does anyone know of one that provide large buttons and whatnot, despite not being designed for a tablet? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I've tried: Google Music, Rocket Player, Shuttle+, Phonograph, and Musixmatch so far.