Hey,
I'm trying to listen to .pls live streams but I can't find a way to get it working. Since StreamFurious and DroidLive can do it there must be away to do so. I really hope someone can point me to the right direction.

Rgds
coyle

This is exactly what I've been looking at doing, so I'll be monitoring this topic for pointers as well.

I didn't get as much time as I would have liked this weekend to test out some methods, but I was considering having a downloader thread that's constantly grabbing data from the stream and writing them to small, ordered files. I'd have another thread cleaning up files that have already been played, and finally I'd have one or two media players reading the files.

I'm not sure how I'd get the downloader part of it working, as I haven't really mucked around with pulling data from HTTP on Android yet, but it shouldn't be too bad. I just need to make sure that the data pulled from the .pls source is readable by the mediaplayer.

I'll keep an eye on here, and I'll let you know if I can find out more on this. Any advice from others would be greatly appreciated.

Sounds promising I'm looking forward to it ^^. I'll make some researches as well.

Edit:
I'll try to connect via tcp to the stream (socket) and listen for incoming data. This might be a fist attempt.

Just to push this topic up again...

I finally found a very good sample:
http://github.com/Dawnthorn/nagare/

With this sample I managed to get a shoutcast running the only problem I have is that there are short interruptions after a few seconds. Hope you could check it out and help me with fixing that.

Rgds
Coyle

using the same open source project (nagare). Tried creating a second mediaplayer to start before I stopped the original mediaplayer and still a gap. Albeit a wee bit smaller but still noticable gap

**Edit**

Finally got Nagare working better. I set up the buffer() to use 2 mediaplayers and I used the ShoutcastFile to check how much of the mp3 was left


if that rang true it called NagareService.m_run_buffer.run();

then in buffer I used 2 mediaplayers to hand off to each other and the one ending would wait 525ms java.lang.Object.class.wait(525);
before stopping the mediaplayer.

Very crude way of knocking it out but i couldnt figure out a different way
and this way streaming mp3's are now gapless for my purpose.

**Edit Again

The gap between players increases the longer the media plays using this method because it takes longer and longer for the mediaplayers to seekTo the current location. One way around this would be to create two files for buffering and hand off back and forth, keeping both files under 250kb should keep the gap pretty small and predictable. Or everytime it conducts a handoff it could start the new mediaplayer with the new file and start from the beginning. Some data may be lost using this method.

I'm just brainstorming.

Would you be so kind and post your buffer and download methode where you check how much of the mp3 is left?

I'd appreciate it

Rgds
Coyle

Coyle wrote:Would you be so kind and post your buffer and download methode where you check how much of the mp3 is left?

I'd appreciate it

Rgds
Coyle

sure
But I dont use Nagare Anymore because it was pretty buggy. And I dont need to support anything other then streaming mp3.

I am very interested about your method if you have a solution about this little bug in move of buffers