Request for Testing (Internet Radio Client)

[D-loader]

it have been playing for.. hmm.. 15 minutes now? no problems so far

 

I must say, we're really seeing some -very- interesting apps for the DS lately, yours being in the top league too .. msnds, internet-radio.. all sorts of good apps

 

Please keep working on this, its so awesome, and I'd like to see it become even better

[FireflyII]

I'm trying it on a flashed system with the GBAMP and it seems to work very well, and quite impressively. It's a little glitchy every now and then (I hear a few pops and clicks) but mostly it works terrifically.

[GrupstraNDS]

Does anyone know why it doesn't seem to work with my flashed DS and GBAmp setup? I get a coonected successfully message after it loads, a white screen on bottom, and after a few seconds, the text on top disappears, and nothing seems to come out of the speakers...

 

Any ideas?

[FireflyII]

Does anyone know why it doesn't seem to work with my flashed DS and GBAmp setup? I get a coonected successfully message after it loads, a white screen on bottom, and after a few seconds, the text on top disappears, and nothing seems to come out of the speakers...

 

Any ideas?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Might seem like a silly question, but do you know that the sound works? Have you tried it in another program? Also, it's kind of quiet on mine...even with the volume all the way up I need to move it close to my ear to hear it at first.

[GrupstraNDS]

hehe, yeah the sound works fine, I was just playing NSMB and also watched some videos in moonshell with it.

 

I tried the original version of it just now, (dissonance, that is), and it played a song, however, it only looped about 30 seconds of it, so that much worked.

 

On this new version, though, nothing seems to play. I'll plug in headphones and see if I hear anything, though.

 

edit: still nothing. Tried headphones, and even hooking it up to my computers speaker system via a line in and audio cable, and still nothing. Everything has sound though, tested several other homebrew apps.

 

Must just be something on my end. Perhaps my router is blocking a port or something odd?

Edited May 18, 2006 by GrupstraNDS

[faceless]

tried 0.2.1 and it works on SC SD here...

 

going on 5 minutes so far...

[bafio]

WOW

 

Works here (GBAMP, flashme v7) but it seems like the connection is really reaking quite a lot

 

I have t say, this is probably the kind of wifi app I've been waiting the most!

 

Keep up with the good work!

 

Cheers

 

Bafio

[Grey]

The code itself should work in pretty much any situation, regardless of how you are actually running code on your DS. (I myself developed this entirely in Linux, so it was tested from the first moment on by WMB, thus the high compatibility rate).

 

However, if you are seeing a black screen after connecting to the router, it's because your DS for whatever reason cannot connect to the streaming media server. It uses port 12260 for this particular stream, so you might want to check that the port isn't blocked by a firewall. You can also try playing the stream in winamp or xmms by opening the location. The url is: http://vruk.sc.llnwd.net:12260 Barring that, I'm not really sure what the problem might be.

 

Anyways, glad to see some people are getting some use out of it, and thanks for the encouragement everyone. I'll try to make the next release extra special.

[GrupstraNDS]

After some checking in my router settings,I realized I still had some ports forwarded and set up to do odd things from previous tests on other apps, and I reset all that, and it worked like a charm.

 

Trying it again just now, it connects and displays the streams info (station name and such), and it never did that before. I also noted that it isnt playing clearly at all. lots of skips.

 

i just can't wait to connect to any stream you want. I'm imaginging being able to stream my own station over to the DS. hehe

Edited May 18, 2006 by GrupstraNDS

[Grey]

i just can't wait to connect to any stream you want. I'm imaginging being able to stream my own station over to the DS. hehe

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

I'm still having conceptual difficulty in thinking of how I want the interface for that to work. For the time being, I could post a howto on how to recompile the code with an arbitrary station. Would that work? (I wouldn't be able to do that until tomorrow though. I'm not at home right now)

 

Right now, I am thinking about just making a script to load a playlist into the app at compile time, much like I've seen some programs do... (can't think of any names at the moment), which is a pain the butt, but it works. As I only have a GBA flash cart, I can't really test with CF or SD cards, although using their filesystems would be the way I would like to do it for those systems. But I also don't want to break compatibility with WMB or flash carts. Which... leaves it up to the user to type in the URL. Which I am also not keen on.

 

So I've mainly just been thinking about how to parse a playlist, and how to handle redirects in the meantime.

[GrupstraNDS]

Ah, ok. Well, disreguard my PM I sent you.

 

I just figured manually entering the streams URl was fine.

 

However, in the future, the ability to save a playlist from winamp to a Cf card and load it via the app would be sweet.

 

Also, how hard would it be to pull the station list form shoutcasts servers? I know several apps and sites that can do this already. It just looks up the same address that winamp does to load the stations into the viewer in winamps little media window.

 

Not sure if this would be hard or not. But I imagine it could be done.

 

edit: also, the howto to recompile with a customized station would work fine as a temp. solution for now, I'd say.

Edited May 19, 2006 by GrupstraNDS

[fischju]

it was absolute crap on mine, probably because my cf card was full (less than 100kb empty) how much of the card does it use?

[sgstair]

*pokes head in*

oooh, nice

sorry I didn't notice this thread to answer questions earlier.

 

-Stephen

[MS3FGX]

Also, how hard would it be to pull the station list form shoutcasts servers? I know several apps and sites that can do this already. It just looks up the same address that winamp does to load the stations into the viewer in winamps little media window.

 

Yeah, that would be ideal.

 

Be able to pull down the list of servers from SHOUTcast, and list them on the bottom screen with the important information (max listeners, bitrate, etc). Then just be able to touch one to start listening.

[Daeval]

I don't have a DS yet myself, but I just thought I'd say that it's homebrew projects like this that really make me want to get one.