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2007-07-07 , 22:04
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#11
??? I been using shoutcast since I first got my 770 with no problems
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2007-07-08 , 00:55
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Originally Posted by laserfan View Post
Leaving out all the Windows Media stations. Having done a search & finding-out the Nokia doesn't support WM, I wonder why??? Someone hafta pay MS big bucks to use it??? I don't get it; the Nokia should play Windows Media files also...
If it's streaming in MP3, it's not a Windows Media station

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.
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2007-07-08 , 03:32
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Originally Posted by Slakker View Post
...absolutely everything you could ever want is available in or can be converted to the more open source media standards?
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.

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.
 
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2007-07-08 , 04:08
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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.
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2007-07-08 , 12:51
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Originally Posted by Slakker View Post
There are just as many net radio stations in formats supported by the 770...suck it up.
Very helpful post.
 
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2007-07-08 , 13:59
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Originally Posted by laserfan View Post
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.
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.
 
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2007-07-08 , 16:00
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Originally Posted by laserfan View Post
Very helpful post.
A lot more helpful than your incessant whining.
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2007-07-08 , 17:15
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Leaving out all the Windows Media stations. Having done a search & finding-out the Nokia doesn't support WM, I wonder why??? Someone hafta pay MS big bucks to use it??? I don't get it; the Nokia should play Windows Media files also...
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.
 
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2007-07-09 , 02:52
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Thanks bac522 and gattsuru; finally some reasonable, intelligent responses!!!
 
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2007-07-10 , 22:12
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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
 
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