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DS Misc > Internet Radio on the DS; is it feasible?

#111100 - HyperHacker - Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:51 am

Wondering if anyone's made a good working app that can play streaming MP3 (at least 128kbps), or better, AAC+ (~40kbps for the same quality). I know DSOrganize can, but poorly. It connects, grabs a few seconds of sound, disconnects, plays it, reconnects (often failing), and grabs more sound, so you get a very choppy result. I notice it usually takes less time to download a piece than to play it (even 128kbps MP3), so if it did both at once, I just bet this'd be quite possible.
There's also Dissonance, which only plays one station and won't do anything for me anyway. (Sometimes it connects successfully, then just blanks out with one black and one white screen.) I figured the station might be dead so I tried hex-editing the URL in it, but it didn't help.
I also know of SylphAmp, which isn't truly streaming but might do in a pinch if I had real good upload bandwidth. It's fairly buggy though. I want to be able to just connect wherever and not have to worry about leaving the computer on first, and with the bugs in this I find I often have to go back and restart Winamp frequently anyway.

So are there any other streaming apps I could try?
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#111126 - Mr. Picklesworth - Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:25 am

DSOrganize does stream (and one channel that works perfectly for me is KPLU.org), but you're right that it does it a bit slowly.
One reason for that is that it is built on the older, slower Wi-Fi Lib.

A dedicated app with some fancy parallel processing stuff and built on the new Wi-Fi Lib would definitely be able to do better.

I've been intending to port Splay or some other text-based audio player with streaming to DSLinux, but they all require a few extra libs that I'm too lazy to deal with... but if you feel like doing it check out freshmeat.net and fsf.org (to find nice, portable apps), and there's a really helpful section in the DSLinux Wiki about porting stuff.
Be sure to keep it simple (hopefully the program is written in C and doesn't need any libraries you don't have) and find a lot of time for it.
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#111133 - TJ - Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:29 am

Yes, I wish that there was such a project. There have been a few attempts at it so far, but none of them really pulled it all together.

Being able to search the ShoutCast directory on the bottom screen and show visualizations and the station info on the top screen, that would be awesome.