Re: Mega list of 17,700 streaming radio stations!
 

??? I been using shoutcast since I first got my 770 with no problems

Re: Mega list of 17,700 streaming radio stations!
 

If it's streaming in MP3, it's not a Windows Media station :rolleyes:

Furthermore, why pay to license Windows Media files when absolutely everything you could ever want is available in or can be converted to the more open source media standards? That would be far more ridiculous than taking the time to convert your files over to a playable format.

Re: Mega list of 17,700 streaming radio stations!
 

No, not "absolutely everything"!!!!!?!!! We are talking about Internet radio stations and live streaming--there are some stations (MANY HUNDREDS actually) that are available in WM only, and therefore I can't listen to them on my Nokia.

I want to stream them live, but I can't. :mad:

I don't want to record-and-convert them--I remain surprised that no one has built a plug-in or something that will allow the Nokia to stream WM.

Re: Mega list of 17,700 streaming radio stations!
 

There are just as many net radio stations in formats supported by the 770...suck it up.

Either that, or figure a way to include support for WM codecs without getting your world rocked by Microsoft.

Re: Mega list of 17,700 streaming radio stations!
 

Very helpful post. :rolleyes:

Re: Mega list of 17,700 streaming radio stations!
 

Sure you can with mplayer. I actually play WM files using the following at a shell prompt:

mplayer -vo null -cache 256 -playlist [URL of Stream]

Yes, it's not the cleanest method, but it works. Now I will say that sometimes it looks like mplayer isn't doing anything and if I hit enter on the virtual keyboard mplayer stops the process but doesn't kill it in which case i then need to type "fg" and then it streams and plays.

Re: Mega list of 17,700 streaming radio stations!
 

A lot more helpful than your incessant whining.

Re: Mega list of 17,700 streaming radio stations!
 

Windows Media formats are proprietary, and thus require some funding to get. They're not actually very expensive -- it's something like 35 cents per unit sold for WMA playback, encoding, and DRM support (10 cents for just the decoder), while mp3 costs 75 cents per unit for playback and encoding with aac ranging from 1 dollar and 75 cents per unit depending on production scale -- but Microsoft has had some rather unusual requirements in the licensing agreements in the past. Things like buggering with how open a client can be, or banning on anything that can play with their DRM.

Meanwhile, there are free softwares capable of dealing with WMA. Their licensing agreements make implementing them with the Nokia 770 or n800 inherently problematic (mplayer's GPL licensing is very open), but they are easy enough to install.

Re: Mega list of 17,700 streaming radio stations!
 

Thanks bac522 and gattsuru; finally some reasonable, intelligent responses!!! :)

Re: Mega list of 17,700 streaming radio stations!
 

so how exactly do i enter the code? is it a single string?

I just got an xterm emulator and have been trying to input the code with no avail..just an error saying no key value? something along those lines

gconftool-2 --set /apps/osso/osso_media_server/demux_audio/application_x-icy --type list --list-type string'[application/x-,icydemux]'

scoured the boards and google, but couldnt find my answer