Streaming Shoutcast on android

[Ibnu Maksum]

hi,
i make application to play radio streaming,
in simulator it is work
but in real device not work, but network still doing get data.

can someone give me advice?

in iphone it is work

thank you

[Simon MacDonald]

What device do you have?
What version of Android does it run?
What version of PhoneGap are you using?
What is the address of the Shoutcast stream?
What do you see when you run "adb logcat" while reproducing the problem?

Details will help us, help you.

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[Michael Herger]

AFAIK this requires Android 2.2 or later to work out of the box.

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[Ibnu Maksum]

> What device do you have?

i use samsung Galaxy Tab

> What version of Android does it run?

android 2.2 Froyo

> What version of PhoneGap are you using?

phonegap.0.9.6.min.js

> What is the address of the Shoutcast stream?

http://live.ardanradio.com:8228/;audio.mp3

> What do you see when you run "adb logcat" while reproducing the problem?

i don't know how to use it :D
works on simulator
but no works in real device

this is my apps
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ibnux.radio

On 20 Jul, 01:23, Simon MacDonald <simon.macdon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What device do you have?
> What version of Android does it run?
> What version of PhoneGap are you using?
> What is the address of the Shoutcast stream?
> What do you see when you run "adb logcat" while reproducing the problem?
>
> Details will help us, help you.
>

> Simon Mac Donaldhttp://hi.im/simonmacdonald

[Simon MacDonald]

Hi Ibnu,

I've plugged that shoutcast url into my audio demo and it works on Android 2.2 and 2.3.  If you want to see that demo check out:

http://simonmacdonald.blogspot.com/2011/05/using-media-class-in-phonegap.html

To add your shoutcast stream put a new option in with a value of "http://live.ardanradio.com:8228/;audio.mp3".

Here's how to enabled logcat logging:

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html#logcat

Simon Mac Donald
http://hi.im/simonmacdonald

[Ibnu Maksum]

Thank you
I have already read it

PhoneGap media not work in Galaxy Tab
But in another hand set works perfectly

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Subject: Re: [PhoneGap] Re: Streaming Shoutcast on android

[Simon MacDonald]

Then you should run "adb logcat" while reproducing the problem on your Galaxy Tab so we can see what is going on.

Simon Mac Donald
http://hi.im/simonmacdonald

[Devgeeks]

Simon,

I am having a similar issue.

Even with your demo and my URL (http://stream.4zzzfm.org.au:789/) it all works just fine in the emulator but not on my (admittedly cheap) device.

I bought a Huawei Sonic (android 2.3.3) phone for testing on a real device and my app (and your demo) that worked fine in the emulator doesn't get past the 'connecting' stage. It just sits with the position as -0.00000001 or whatever it starts as...

I am sure I could figure it out except for another even more annoying issue... the device seems to have debugging disabled (or at least the log). I enabled USB Debugging, but when I try to run logcat on the device I get:

"Unable to open log device '/dev/log/main': No such file or directory"

Very frustrating.

I don't suppose you might have any suggestions for either issue? heh. I am so unaccustomed to Android. Maybe there is something in the logs when running in the Emulator that I should watch out for, etc?

[Devgeeks]

UPDATE: 

Ran Simon's demo unadulterated and the internet asset plays fine on my device.

I suspect I was onto something when I asked if something I saw in the logcat when running it on the emulator might be more serious when on the device.

"Server did not give us the content length!"

:/

This is glossed over as a warning and it plays anyway on the emulator, but I suspect the device is not being so friendly?

[Simon MacDonald]

That seems like a quirk of the Huawei Sonic. Steaming Audio should work on any Android device running OS 2.2 or better. I've tried your stream on my device and it works.

Simon Mac Donald
http://hi.im/simonmacdonald

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[Devgeeks]

Simon,

Thanks for the quick reply. 

So my URL in your demo on your device works fine?

Hrm... between this and the logging problem I suspect I need a new test device at the very least.

[Devgeeks]

UPDATE 2: So I went out and got an HTC Wildfire S tonight on the way home.

First of all, debugging worked straight up just like it was supposed to.

Second, so did the app :) Streamed like a dream.

No idea why the app wasn't working on that phone though. Kind of worries me that I'll release it and some people will download it and it just won't work.

*shrug*

Thanks for all your help...

[Simon MacDonald]

Welcome to Android development your Fragmentation badge is in the mail ;)

Seriously though, I'm glad your app worked on the new phone. I'm sure
that it'll just work on a wide variety of phones but on some cheaper
devices we'll all have problems so I wouldn't worry too much.

Simon Mac Donald
http://hi.im/simonmacdonald

[Devgeeks]

Fragmentation badge. I like that.

Thanks again for all your help.

[MrReview]

Hi Devgeeks,

I'm testing your demo with a shoutcast streaming url and it does'nt work :(

I tested with the streaming url somebody said in this google group.

The debug window in Xcode stucks on this line:
2012-02-08 15:02:21.274 altafullaradio[3219:13403] Will use resource 'http://live.ardanradio.com:8228/;audio.mp3' from the Internet.

I'm using the latest version of phonegap, and iOS 5.0.1

With a normal mp3 url it works good. But with a streaming url it does'nt

What I should try?

Thank you.

Kind regards,

[Devgeeks]

My demo? Or Simon's?

http://simonmacdonald.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/using-media-class-in-phonegap.html

?

Having said that, I plugged your URL into my app and it worked fine. Perhaps a paste bin of your code could help?

[MrReview]

Hi Devgeeks thanks for your reply...

That's correct it's the Simon's demo...

In android is working fine but in iOS i can't get it to work properly, my code is very simple...

http://pastebin.com/kzyVk7hK

Thank you!

[Devgeeks]

Oh. Sorry... I missed the Xcode part.

Long story short, there is a known issue that the Media API cannot handle streaming like shoutcast servers on iOS.

For my app I first tried to write my own plugin to do the streaming. I got most of the way there and you are welcome to have a look at it, but in the end I just used HTML5 Audio since it works quite well on iOS.

I used this as a starting point:

http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/play_an_mp3_audio_stream_in_phonegap

It works really well and even gives you background audio complete with the remote button support that was broken in my plugin.

I then went through some HTML5 Audio spec docs that helped me fine tune it using eventListeners for "waiting", "playing", "ended" and "timeupdate" (so I knew when it was buffering, when it was playing, duration, etc). 

I am happy to paste bin share some code if you get stuck, but mine has heaps of jQuery stuff in it specific to my UI.

[MrReview]

This helped a lot.

I knew about html5 audio tag and tested it successfuly on both android & iOS... but I wanted to test the other way using Media() function from phonegap... now I see that using Audio() insted of Media() is working good on both platforms.

So what do you think is the best mode to work with streaming audio? use Audio() from phonegap or <audio> from html5?

Thank you!

[Devgeeks]

I actually found html5 audio to be flakey on some Android devices (see: http://www.brianhadaway.com/html5-audio-support-on-android-devices/).

I ended up using PhoneGap's Media API for Android and HTML5 Audio via JavaScript for iOS.

[Bruno Sampaio Pinho da Silva]

Guys, I came here because I've tried many things, almost every post on this group about streaming but I think the problem is on this shoutcast server... I'm trying to output the stream from this server: http://199.189.107.84:9946/ to my app. But it does not play. When I open it from VLC program http://199.189.107.84:9946/;audio.mp3 I can hear it perfectly... Is it because it does not have a mp3 format from the output? Do you have any idea about what's wrong with this link? I appreciate any comments.

I've been trying this for 2 weeks with no success. I've tried audio and video html5 tags... And your link as well, Devgeeks.

Thanks.

[Bruno Sampaio Pinho da Silva]

Or maybe the problem is this format: aacp.

Not actually provided by the browsers... Is there a way to solve this?

[Kerri Shotts]

If I had to guess, you're going to need some native logic to decode the stream. Don't know that there's anything out there already in plugin form, though.

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