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AOL Music Subscription Works on Hermes!

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I've been wanting to get a subscription service that will stream to mobile devices (I mainly use Rhapsody on my pc, and it too will NOT work with mobile devices even though you have the option to use it through a browser-based interface) so I read your post and signed up for the 30 days trial, and sure enough it works over 3G as well.
The only problem I have is when I go to the main page through PIE on my Tytn, it automatically goes to a mobile version of the site, and I can only select certain artists that have been pre-selected based on my genre settings. There is a search line at the top where you can enter artist or album, but there is no Enter or Go button, and pressing Enter on the keyboard does nothing. In other words, I can't navigate to any specific artist, I can only listen to the pre-selected ones. Do you know how to get that search bar to work? If I go to the page on my desktop pc, the interface is totally different and getting to a specific artist is no problem.
I'm not sure what to tell you on the WMP thing... I have no issues with WMP thus far...

Neither of you have tried orb? I can't say enough about it...all of your mp3's on your PC at home are available to you on your phone 24/7. The only drawback is getting the mp3's and always leaving your PC on. It works the same way- you choose your song and it streams to WMP. This will also work for Videos and TV (with the proper setup, slinbox is far better though).
I haven't had any problems with this using wmp.

Patman,
Yes I do have Orb and use it quite a bit, and I do love it!! I stream my music and my recorded TV from my media center pc at home. BUT, the reason I wanted a subscription-based service on my phone is because you can stream any song, any artist any time. I own about 6,000 mp3's that are on my harddrive on my pc at home that I can stream on Orb, but with a subscription-based music service like AOL or Rhapsody, I have the choice of about 2.5 million songs, on-demand, at my fingertips.

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Patman,
Yes I do have Orb and use it quite a bit, and I do love it!! I stream my music and my recorded TV from my media center pc at home. BUT, the reason I wanted a subscription-based service on my phone is because you can stream any song, any artist any time. I own about 6,000 mp3's that are on my harddrive on my pc at home that I can stream on Orb, but with a subscription-based music service like AOL or Rhapsody, I have the choice of about 2.5 million songs, on-demand, at my fingertips.
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Yeah I figured there was a reason.
Does it cost anything per song, or is it a time-based ($xx.00/month) service?

I'm glad others are interested. Subscription music means you pay a flat fee per month (usually around $10) and you can listen to any artist, any album, any song in their entire library whenever and (hopefully soon) wherever you want. It's the holy grail IMO as far as portable music. Especially when you don't want an iPod/MP3 Player, but rather a convergence device like this. The problem is that the flash memory is very slow, and very space limited. Streaming music from a subscription service is the way to go. Orb is a great idea, but you still have to download the songs first. Me personally, I'm fed up with downloading organizing and managing music files. It's just become tedious. I'd rather have a jukebox available at all times with every artist in existence. In other words, I'm sick of collecting music. The new technology has made me look past that.
As I mentioned, AOL Music Now is the only web based service, thus the only one that can work on Windows Mobile (Rhapsody has a web browser plugin but it only works on certain desktop browsers).
Good news though. I just discovered (or is it brand new?) that Music Now supports RSS feeds. This could really be the answer to a having a solid experience using the streaming from a subscription music service on a PPC.
You can save an RSS feed of just about anything. All the artists in your library, your playlists, all the albums, all the songs, top 20 lists, etc.
I'm about to try and find an RSS reader for WM5 that might make this a reality. Even if one doesn't exist that works well, the RSS provides an open source for others to make a music browser type interface. Who knows what will happen. One could potentially make a program for WM that reads the RSS feeds and lets you browse, select, and play music much like the interface on an iPod or something. The difference being you have up to 2 million songs to choose from at any given time.

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Share:Collection of Internet Radio Stations

Hello all
My collection of online radio stations – Hope you find this useful.
I have decided after searching for something similar (with no luck) to post here all of the internet radio stations I have collected into a single file to share with you. These are all in playlist format which I have created using Winamp. All you have to do is unpack the RAR file, copy them to your mobile device and open them using your favorite app that can play streaming audio (I use TCPMP which works flawlessly)
Note: that you can also copy these to your desktop and open using Winamp or Jet-Audio or whatever you wish and listen to these on your desktop.
Also note that many of these have several streams which will show up in your playlist. These are different streams of the same Radio Station so if you find that one it not working great (always buffering due to high traffic) then just click skip next to go to a different stream of the same radio station)
Example – “the Buzz alternative” has 21 streams of the same station – Pick one and if it is not streaming perfectly – try another stream from the playlist.
Once you have these on your device you can either navigate to the folder where you placed all of the stations, click one to open and start listening. Alternatively, you could open TCPMP or other streaming media player and open the radio station through that.
I have created shortcuts to my favorite stations using Ultimate Launch so they are just one click away when I want to listen to one of them. It is a very easy setup. You could probably do the same with throttle launcher or other launcher’s out there; however, I have not tested myself.
Stations included
80’s
80’s Hairband 181.FM
Awesome 80’s 181.FM
Lite 80’s 181.FM
90’s Alternative 181.FM
Lite 90’s 181.FM
.001 Classical Radio
181.FM Classical
Ambient Chill
Another Classical Station
Baroque
Celtic
Chill 181.FM
Classical Guitar
Classical Radio
Classical Relaxing
SKY FM Classical
Soothing World
Comedy 181.FM
Comedy Channel
The Comedy Channel .977
Another Comedy Channel
The Mix Channel 181.FM
99.9 the Fox FM from Sarnia (City I use to live in)
Blues 1
Blues 2
Blues 3
Blues 4
CBC Radio 2
CBC Radio 1 Sudbury
Christmas Music station (only worked during Chritmas holidays and unsure if this same stream will work next year)
Classic Buzz (old rock)
70’s to 90’s channel from England
Funk
University of Windsor independent Radio Station
Hitz channel
Jazz
K106 Sarnia
Party Station 181.FM
Power the Hitz Channel 181.FM
Pulse Radio
Rap
Rock 40 181.FM
Rock 181.FM
Rock UK
The Buzz Alternative 181.FM
The Office 181.FM
Audio Drama Station
Chloe 181.FM
Dance
Dance pop and Rock
Energy 93 181.FM
Energy 98 181.FM
Dance station from England
More Dance
Techno1
Another Techno station
I hope that you find this useful and enjoy this collection. No need to donate to me for putting this collection together – I only wish to contribute to this site and only ask that each and every one of you find a way to contribute also in any way you can.
I may add more stations as I find them – There are so many out there and I have not checked them all out – these are basically the once on my device that I use –
Note that I have not listened to some of these recently and if they no longer work I am sorry; however, most should work.
All of these are free to listen to (no subscription required) however, some such as SKY FM require subscription to get CD Quality Streaming.
Please feel free to share with us the online radio stations you listen to and the method you use to listen to them.
Of course there is also Pandora (which I hear is great); however, Pandora does not work in Canada. I am curious to hear about other stations I may not have yet found.
Enjoy
Rod

Reserved for organizational purposes of this thread (in case of many other user submitted stations)

Ok.... so.... where's the collection ?

It's on it's way - Having trouble uploading the package
Package is up now

Here is some good interesting reading for streaming satellite radio to your devices
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=356812
Plus there are several apps around that allow for easy streaming of satellite radio
and check out this link aslo for some interesting helpful information regarding streaming radio
http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blogs/3/2399

here's some Philippine FM Stations... ASX files.

.977 FM Radio
I listen to .977 Music. They have a free app and it works very well. Link to cab here: http://www.977music.com/download/mobileradio.cab

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I listen to .977 Music. They have a free app and it works very well. Link to cab here: http://www.977music.com/download/mobileradio.cab
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I also listen to .977 music but wasn't aware of the cab. Thanks for posting it, I will be giving it a try.
If you know the source of the app and cab it would be nice to give credit or link to thread or web site. If you created it, give yourself some credit.
edit - I should have looked more closely - the app is available from http://www.977music.com/ and clicking mobile tab and so on. Nice find though. Will be testing when I am done work today.

[Q] Concerning the Music Player and Genre View

This is a pretty frustrating question but I just can't seem to find the answer anywhere else.
When using the default music player, I like to listen to music in categories. Naturally this would be a great application of the Genre View. The problem here is that even though I manually tag the files with either winamp, windows or any other program, the application just ignores them and decides to group them into whatever genre it feels like.
I subsequently tried Mixzing but it seems to do the exact same thing.
I can't help but wonder if they share the same sort of media engine, samsung designed and somehow failing me at this point.
Anyone have any input?

Bumping myself after 3 days, sorry this is just too annoying to let go so easily.

So nobody else's vibrant ignores MP3 tags data at will? It's just me?
I heard this was a fix in Froyo, but this is pretty annoying. It essentially makes the payer useless for large volumes of music.

Same S D D
Albums show up as Genre's on My Vibrant

Yes, the stock music player and most other players on the market including Mixzing use the underlying Android music database. This is why the tags will be identical between players. The use of the Genre tag in the database sucks. It should be Genre -> Artists -> Albums -> Titles like all ipods do.
As for tags, always use ID3 v2.3 tags if at all possible. 2.4 has less compatibility. MP3Tag is very good.

Music App Survey

Hello, what's up and good morning,
we are a small project team from HTL Rennweg Vienna and like to develop an Music App for Android. The project will last a half year. We want to implement the following features:
play music from the SD card
control a MPD server remotely
a Widget and a Lockscreen Widget
Artist Information
Lyrics
Albumcover
subscribe to Podcasts
Last.fm Integration
We are asking at several Android forums, which other features are needed and used.
We are looking forward for many ideas and comments
basti & the project team

Auto-start play and stop on BT/wired headphone connect and disconnect.
Car-view with only 3/4 BIG buttons and huge album cover background.
High-quality file format support (FLAC, APE, ...).
Speed-based volume control (the faster you go, the louder it gets).
I may add some more in future...
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HUD-like mode to have the screen reflected in windshield, maybe with actual speed and time indication... I mostly need that for car use, could you imagine? XD

I'm probably alone here, but the main thing I miss using my phone instead of my ipod as a car media player is that I can't have music videos and normal tracks in the same playlist. So if you could include support for music vids in the same playlists as other media, that'd be fantastic
Other than that - what teorouge said. Add gesture support to, so I can swipe to change tracks, and I'm sold

teorouge said:
Auto-start play and stop on BT/wired headphone connect and disconnect.
Car-view with only 3/4 BIG buttons and huge album cover background.
High-quality file format support (FLAC, APE, ...).
Speed-based volume control (the faster you go, the louder it gets).
I may add some more in future...
EDIT: like I said...
HUD-like mode to have the screen reflected in windshield, maybe with actual speed and time indication... I mostly need that for car use, could you imagine? XD
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Would also like to see a day/night switch to automatically change skin or at least color set from light to dark, based on actual time or luminosity or both (you decide!) also for car usage improvement.
EDIT: actually don't care about...
play music from the SD card
control a MPD server remotely
a Widget and a Lockscreen Widget
Artist Information
Lyrics
Albumcover
subscribe to Podcasts
Last.fm Integration
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I would love to be able to stream internet streams (over wifi)
like .m3u streams. The stock app doesn't recognise ones I have tried

Biggest issues for me would be the ability to add only specific folders to the library, a media player that scans the whole SD card and loads crap like ringtones into the list is unusable. And secondly very robust tag and album art support. I have many songs that display titles and artist fine in Foobar on my PC and all my tracks have the album art imbedded but many of these do not display correctly on my HTC Desire media player.

The feature I most need is to sort my music by "album artist" and not only by artists.

Whch online radio application do you use?

Hi folks
I'm after a nice radio application to use when I'm in my car, which applications do you use? I like Hardstyle, Country, Classical and 60's style.
Thanks

I use tunewiki
the best for me, better than "tunein" which takes time to fix the webradio
you can select your style of music with shoucast radio

Tuneinradio is the best..check it out

I like to set mine up to listen to the Virtual DJ radio streams.
The best player I have found for this is Retro Radio Streamer, basic but customise it the way I want it and it does the job.

Pandora here

IMHO: XiiaLive ist the best app for internetradio

TuneIn - my favourite.

yeah tunein radio is the best, just search for the station you want (uk or not) and listen, buffering only takes seconds and it tells you what show your listening too