How to play m3u file - Streaming on web - HTC Rezound

I have a lot of m3u files that link to a website to play. On windows I just use windows media player but I haven't been able to find one that works with Android.
The text inside the m3u file is something like this:
http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/...es/2004-06-11-Rock Me Amadeus-Final Email.mp3
Thanks for any leads you may have.

gattaca714 said:
I have a lot of m3u files that link to a website to play. On windows I just use windows media player but I haven't been able to find one that works with Android.
The text inside the m3u file is something like this:
http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/...es/2004-06-11-Rock Me Amadeus-Final Email.mp3
Thanks for any leads you may have.
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You have playlists that link to an external source so I take it you do not own any of the mp3's associated with them? Why not just use one of the thousands of streaming sources available that work, Slacker Radio came as stock on the phone. Then there's Rhapsody, LastFM or iHeart Radio. Maybe one of them could import your m3u playlists. Last FM would be my best bet but its not free.

gattaca714 said:
I have a lot of m3u files that link to a website to play. On windows I just use windows media player but I haven't been able to find one that works with Android.
The text inside the m3u file is something like this:
http://www.kevinandbeanarchive.com/...es/2004-06-11-Rock Me Amadeus-Final Email.mp3
Thanks for any leads you may have.
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I have used a free market app called "just playlists" with limited success. It seems it likes to choose when it will and will not work for itself, though...

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playlist support

hi, i'm migrating from a nokia phone
so far so good
my nokia had a decent media player, and since not all my mp3's had proper tags and i didn't want to mess with it too much, i just autocrected a playlist for each folder which was more than enough for me.
now on the vibrant, some files don't open (i assume aac/m4a's but that's ok), but most annoying, all the playlists are gone.
which format should i use, can they remain scattered or do i need to put them somewhere?
can anyone post an example of the format? i used windows media m3u on nokia...
thanks
phntm said:
hi, i'm migrating from a nokia phone
so far so good
my nokia had a decent media player, and since not all my mp3's had proper tags and i didn't want to mess with it too much, i just autocrected a playlist for each folder which was more than enough for me.
now on the vibrant, some files don't open (i assume aac/m4a's but that's ok), but most annoying, all the playlists are gone.
which format should i use, can they remain scattered or do i need to put them somewhere?
can anyone post an example of the format? i used windows media m3u on nokia...
thanks
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I just discovered how to sync playlists with my vibrant tonight. You'll need to use MediaMonkey though. It's free and has a nice interface. Been using MediaMonkey since I had my Samsung MP3 Player with the slide out speakers.
http://www.yellowfocus.com/blog/35-...-the-galaxy-s-for-the-stock-music-player.html

Does Android have ANY streaming radio programs available?

Hey there all, I've been working with Android relatively well for the last six or so months and have been utterly shocked by the complete lack of mediaplayer software that will play streaming radio. I have two .m3u files and one .pls that I've tried in the stock player, Meridian, Astro mp, WinAmp Mobile, StreamFurious pro, and RadioHeart, but none of them will play it. Has anyone seen a media player or even a standalone program for Android that will play streaming radio files?
Thanks.
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XiiaLive Lite?
MortPlayer Music on the play store says it reads m3u files. So I'd give that a try.
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chislon said:
XiiaLive Lite?
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Bernie Nolan said:
MortPlayer Music on the play store says it reads m3u files. So I'd give that a try.
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Sorry, no dice on any of those.
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I can't believe it - nobody has got streaming radio to work on android?
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VLC Beta (April 23rd Build), but I can't get it to work with playlists yet so you have to resort to copying and pasting the stream source URL from within the playlist file. The format support is good pretty much any stream URL that works in desktop VLC will work mobile. Once they add playlist support and some other features from the desktop edition we may finally have a suitable Android replacement for TCPMP. I'm keeping my hopes up as this is an early unofficial build, and I've used VLC for years on my desktop. Its a very good media player and VLC will be doing an official Android version someday as they have a link placeholder on their website.
Its hard to believe that TCPMP was abandoned 5+ years ago yet it still beats anything offered on Android as of now. Sure there are programs out there like TuneIn and iHeartRadio that play radio stations, but if you want something that takes a custom stream or streaming playlists your options are limited. Looking forward to VLC official builds they may be the answer.
spunker88 said:
VLC Beta (April 23rd Build), but I can't get it to work with playlists yet so you have to resort to copying and pasting the stream source URL from within the playlist file. The format support is good pretty much any stream URL that works in desktop VLC will work mobile. Once they add playlist support and some other features from the desktop edition we may finally have a suitable Android replacement for TCPMP. I'm keeping my hopes up as this is an early unofficial build, and I've used VLC for years on my desktop. Its a very good media player and VLC will be doing an official Android version someday as they have a link placeholder on their website.
Its hard to believe that TCPMP was abandoned 5+ years ago yet it still beats anything offered on Android as of now. Sure there are programs out there like TuneIn and iHeartRadio that play radio stations, but if you want something that takes a custom stream or streaming playlists your options are limited. Looking forward to VLC official builds they may be the answer.
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Good call; I gave that a shot and found that I couldn't play the playlist files themselves, but opening them in a text editor and grabbing the URL did the trick for all but one of my radio stations, an ASX playlist (which I actually haven't used in a while, so this doesn't necissarily mean that ASX is out of the question as the stream could've changed).
I did find that to switch between streams would cause an FC, but it would be fine once it started up again. Hopefully they get this working even better, but until then, I still have to ask, is this the only thing on Android right now that can play streaming radio?
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Well like I said VLC is in an early beta, I believe its actually an unofficial build compiled from the source. The desktop VLC has great playlist support, xspf, m3u, asx, etc all work and I imagine playlist support will be added.
What I did as a temporary solution was to make a HTML file of my streams as links. Then I copied the file to my phone and bookmarked it in Dolphin HD. So now I can browse to the page, tap and hold a link, select copy URL and paste into VLC.
I've also been getting FCs if you open another stream. The issue seems to be that it tries to add the additional stream to a playlist much like desktop VLC, but since playlists aren't working yet something is going haywire and FCs it. We'll just have to wait for more updates and hopefully an official build from VideoLAN even if its still a beta. The finished project should be able to open playlists and change between streams without issues.
Winamp Pro can also do streaming, but is limited to MP3 and AAC streams (I can't get WMA working), under the shoutcast section you can add custom streams and save them as favorites. Its not free, and VLC will probably have better streaming support when its done.
I use the standard "boxed" streamers like Tunein, Slacker, Jango and Sky.fm so the platform will work with radio. Besides what has already been said there are apps out there that say they will do it : M3U Player, KamMa's folder player, ServeStream. Another question is, have you checked the files on a none Android platform?
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spunker88 said:
Well like I said VLC is in an early beta, I believe its actually an unofficial build compiled from the source. The desktop VLC has great playlist support, xspf, m3u, asx, etc all work and I imagine playlist support will be added.
What I did as a temporary solution was to make a HTML file of my streams as links. Then I copied the file to my phone and bookmarked it in Dolphin HD. So now I can browse to the page, tap and hold a link, select copy URL and paste into VLC.
I've also been getting FCs if you open another stream. The issue seems to be that it tries to add the additional stream to a playlist much like desktop VLC, but since playlists aren't working yet something is going haywire and FCs it. We'll just have to wait for more updates and hopefully an official build from VideoLAN even if its still a beta. The finished project should be able to open playlists and change between streams without issues.
Winamp Pro can also do streaming, but is limited to MP3 and AAC streams (I can't get WMA working), under the shoutcast section you can add custom streams and save them as favorites. Its not free, and VLC will probably have better streaming support when its done.
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At least we're somewhere, even if the process is tedious. It's amazing to me how there is absolutely NO software in however many years we've had Android (the only smart platform left on the market) that there is no better way to stream radio; hopefully the newer releases of VLC will finally implement this. Gave WinAmp a try too, and no dice with that either. Hopefully somebody will get this figured out.
I mean, if the Epic users are banned from the privilege of listening to FM radio, you'd think we could at least stream something. Guess the whole radio thing wasn't meant to be (short of pasting the URLs into VLC Alpha) - maybe Samsung wins this one.
zharkov said:
Besides what has already been said there are apps out there that say they will do it : M3U Player, KamMa's folder player, ServeStream. Another question is, have you checked the files on a none Android platform?
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Gave "M3U Player", "Kamama's", and "ServeStream" a try this afternoon, and they don't seem to be able to play any streaming radio, M3U or otherwise from my playlist files (one of them might have had the tedious "pasted URL" option that VLC mobile had, but nothing we haven't covered so far).
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I suppose we all patiently wait for a software that will let us stream radio on our devices.
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Jogjastreamers
I use Jogjastreamers, it's a standalone radio streamers with limited channel - only radio Channel in Jogjakarta (Indonesia) and surrounding cities as the name suggests.
maybe not the one you are looking for, but it's a radio streamer app and it works
panmoto said:
I use Jogjastreamers, it's a standalone radio streamers with limited channel - only radio Channel in Jogjakarta (Indonesia) and surrounding cities as the name suggests.
maybe not the one you are looking for, but it's a radio streamer app and it works
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I'm just looking for a simple program that will let me click on one of the radio stations that I've got saved and play it. Just that simple. I can't believe Android has been going this long and still doesn't have anything like this.
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what about "A Online Radio?"
never use it, but it says it plays: MP3/M3U/PLS/AAC/AACP channels, shoutcast/icecast.
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panmoto said:
what about "A Online Radio?"
never use it, but it says it plays: MP3/M3U/PLS/AAC/AACP channels, shoutcast/icecast.
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I don't think I have it installed right now, but I do remember trying it and it unfortunately not working.
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kainppc6700 said:
I'm just looking for a simple program that will let me click on one of the radio stations that I've got saved and play it. Just that simple. I can't believe Android has been going this long and still doesn't have anything like this.
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VLC, but we are going to have to be patient. Hopefully it will have playlist support soon it already plays all my streams fine if I copy the raw stream URL into it. On my desktop I've made playlists of all my favorite radio streams that I play in VLC. Its a lot easier than opening my browser and opening some bloated player. On Android I have some streams in Tunein, some in iHeartRadio and some streams that don't have an Android app at all.
When I first made the switch to Android I was also surprised there was nothing out there that compared to TCPMP. Even WMP which was pretty basic on Windows Mobile opened playlists. VLC has the potential as long as they don't strip too many features but porting open source always takes time and I appreciate the efforts of the developers.
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spunker88 said:
VLC, but we are going to have to be patient. Hopefully it will have playlist support soon it already plays all my streams fine if I copy the raw stream URL into it. On my desktop I've made playlists of all my favorite radio streams that I play in VLC. Its a lot easier than opening my browser and opening some bloated player. On Android I have some streams in Tunein, some in iHeartRadio and some streams that don't have an Android app at all.
When I first made the switch to Android I was also surprised there was nothing out there that compared to TCPMP. Even WMP which was pretty basic on Windows Mobile opened playlists. VLC has the potential as long as they don't strip too many features but porting open source always takes time and I appreciate the efforts of the developers.
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I guess we will just be using VLC. Any word on when the newer or official releases are coming out?
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kainppc6700 said:
I guess we will just be using VLC. Any word on when the newer or official releases are coming out?
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I keep checking the VLC website to see if they will have any info on any official builds, but nothing has appeared yet:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html
There are also the unofficial builds here that are being updated every few weeks or so.
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kainppc6700 said:
I suppose we all patiently wait for a software that will let us stream radio on our devices.
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You're not alone, guy! i'm searching a simple radio streaming app, too. An app where you just write the name and url of the radio that you want to listen. An app with only a play/pause button without advertising and 10000 radio pre-installed. An app like radiotray on linux.
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Peregrinis said:
You're not alone, guy! i'm searching a simple radio streaming app, too. An app where you just write the name and url of the radio that you want to listen. An app with only a play/pause button without advertising and 10000 radio pre-installed. An app like radiotray on linux.
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In that case, you're in the right "waiting room". Right now, the closest thing we have to a solution is using one of the prerelease "XDABrewed" (I just made that one up) versions of VLC. Instead of simply opening a playlist file with the app though, you've gotta first open the playlist file with a text editor, copy the stream URL out, then paste it into VLC and it'll play. Also, if you decide to listen to a different stream, you have to fully exit VLC and start it again. This might seem like a lot of effort, but it is an early "alpha" sector build and there hasn't even been an official release of any kind yet.
If you find anything better, be sure to let us know!
Thanks for visiting.
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[Q] Need an app that can browse a system directory and show MP3 metadata

Google Music stores it's my downloaded MP3 music on the internal phone memory on my Nexus4. I don't want to use any other player, I really like how Google Music gives me the best of both worlds, with regards to having my best stuff locally, and all music in the cloud.
However sometimes I want to copy a particular Mp3 from my phone to my computer. All the files are randomly numbered xxx.mp3, so I can't see which file is what track in MP3 explorer.
Anyone know an app that can browse a system directory (on a rooted phone), and show all the Mp3 metadata and allow copying of that file?
CrazyPeter said:
Google Music stores it's my downloaded MP3 music on the internal phone memory on my Nexus4. I don't want to use any other player, I really like how Google Music gives me the best of both worlds, with regards to having my best stuff locally, and all music in the cloud.
However sometimes I want to copy a particular Mp3 from my phone to my computer. All the files are randomly numbered xxx.mp3, so I can't see which file is what track in MP3 explorer.
Anyone know an app that can browse a system directory (on a rooted phone), and show all the Mp3 metadata and allow copying of that file?
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Google is your friend... But I suggest you to try to search in the play store. there are lots of usefull apps can find...
west76 said:
Google is your friend... But I suggest you to try to search in the play store. there are lots of usefull apps can find...
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I already of course tried both of those avenues, hence asking here.
CrazyPeter said:
I already of course tried both of those avenues, hence asking here.
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if u had rooted device than use root exlorer.apk or astro manager for system files and derectory...
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Recommend me a Music Player with SMB folder browsing

Hi all, I've been scowering the depths of Android music players trying to find an app that will simply let me browse SMB shares, sort according to ID3 track number tags, and play/queue music files.
The only app I could find that could come close is Xenoamp Beta, but it's buggy and often crashes when I point it at SMB shares with thousands of songs.
Otherwise I've come up with nothing.
Popular Music Players like Power Amp and Rocket Player etc, won't allow me to add SMB folders to their libraries.
I've heard of solutions to mount smb shares into the "sd card", but such actions require root, which I don't want to do.
Popular Media Players like BSPlayer can browse SMB shares perfectly, but it won't parse ID3 tags and allow me to play according to track number.
Excellent File Managers like ESmanager will browse SMB shares with ease, but also won't recognize track number tags.
Is there an app out there that will work? I figured this would be a common requested feature, but I can't find much discussion on the topic.
Anyone?
Obveron said:
Anyone?
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Neutron Music Player supports SMB shares....
fleshx said:
Neutron Music Player supports SMB shares....
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Thanks for registering to tell me this! Works like a charm!
Obveron said:
Thanks for registering to tell me this! Works like a charm!
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No problem, it sometimes disconnects, but it does work, I can't believe there's no other options...Everyone keeps asking PowerAmp to add the feature but nothing....

Google Play Music.

I've started using Google Play Music as my media player. But when I buy something and "keep it on device" I can't find where its downloaded too. I've searched all through my phone. Sometimes I use the HTC music player nut I can't access anything I've bought from the Play store until I download it to my computer and copy it to my phones music folder. It's pretty frustrating. Does anyone else have this problem? Or know another work around? Thanks in advance
Diesel321 said:
I've started using Google Play Music as my media player. But when I buy something and "keep it on device" I can't find where its downloaded too. I've searched all through my phone. Sometimes I use the HTC music player nut I can't access anything I've bought from the Play store until I download it to my computer and copy it to my phones music folder. It's pretty frustrating. Does anyone else have this problem? Or know another work around? Thanks in advance
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GPM does keep the tracks on your device, but not is a format that can be accessed by other music players. It caches music in /data/data/com.google.android.music/file/music as mp3's with numeric filenames like 10.mp3, 11.mp3, etc. and the indexing of track Title/Album/Artist to the cached mp3's is stored in /data/data/com.google.android.music/databases/music.db
That's just plain stupid..... I paid for the music and should be able to move it to where I want on my own device. I love Google but they do some stupid things. Such as that and not letting you merge 2 separate Google accounts. Thanks a bunch though
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Yeah it's stupid. You're better off buying from Amazon.
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Kinda stupid, I agree. However, if you're storing music on your phone, you might as well plug in your phone, and just copy the music over to the folders you want, which will preserve file titles/tags.
I actually like Play Music .... but this closed music management is terrible. You can not choose where your music is stored and you can't open your music with another app. As it has been said above, there is the possibility to read out the music.db. So I've written me an app, that copies my MP3 files from Play Music to the sdcard and extended them with the ID3 meta data such as title, artists, albums and coverart. Now I can play the music with every app and theoretically even share.
Of course the whole thing is only one solution for rooted phones. But it makes play music a little more comfortable.
I even found a way to save music from AllAccess, but I'm not going to publish this App Version in the foreseeable future because of legal problems.
I would also like to create help thread here in XDA, but unfortunately I must have 10 posts written , before I can create am own thread in the developer forum.
Here is a Link to to the Play Store: Unfortunately I can not post links yet. Search 'Play Music Exporter' on Google Play.
Arcus92 said:
I actually like Play Music .... but this closed music management is terrible. You can not choose where your music is stored and you can't open your music with another app. As it has been said above, there is the possibility to read out the music.db. So I've written me an app, that copies my MP3 files from Play Music to the sdcard and extended them with the ID3 meta data such as title, artists, albums and coverart. Now I can play the music with every app and theoretically even share.
Of course the whole thing is only one solution for rooted phones. But it makes play music a little more comfortable.
I even found a way to save music from AllAccess, but I'm not going to publish this App Version in the foreseeable future because of legal problems.
I would also like to create help thread here in XDA, but unfortunately I must have 10 posts written , before I can create am own thread in the developer forum.
Here is a Link to to the Play Store: Unfortunately I can not post links yet. Search 'Play Music Exporter' on Google Play.
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Great Idea thanks for sharing
here's the link ->> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.arcus.playmusicexporter

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