Hi,
I'd like to use an old HTC Eris as a multimedia player.
I have replaced the kernel, with one that has cifs support.
I use cifsmanager to mount the drive from my NAS.
When I play mp3 files from the shared mount, it stutters from time to time.
I have almost full wifi signal, and I have even tried tweaking the mount options with no luck.
I think this has to do the way android music subsystem plays mp3 files. It does not prefetch the file, and the latency from reading the file off the network causes this stutter.
Can anyone verify this ? or have an idea for a fix ?
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When I'm not at home behind my desktop, I use ExpanDrive to mount my sftp as a local drive on the laptop. This way I get to listen AND manage my music as if I'm at home... Same goes to when I'm at work. Easy, convenient.
How would I go about doing the similar on my mobile? I would like to mount sFTP as a local directory which I would then access with my fav media player. I believe it can be done since wm mounts microsd card as "Storage Card" and my bluetooth ftp appears as "Bluetooth" folder in the root... so how would you mount sFTP/SSH drive the similar way?
Thanks.
this would be great!
Im looking for the same solution! I have a NAS which I can access with FTP/SFTP/HTTP and would love to add my online music library to my favorite media player... Mounting as a local drive could help streaming movies with subtitles atm Im using CifsManager to hook up in LAN to my shared media and subtitles works that way in DicePlayer. (Otherwise I have to use Handbrake to burn in the subtitles and convert movies to mp4 files which takes time.) Can someone who knows about this stuff leave a comment is this possible in theory?
EDIT: Well I noticed problem with FTP / SFTP it lags like hell and the problem is not the internet connection... I tried streaming from http and it worked like a charm... So I think Im going to make a php based medialibrary and use http for streaming... Tho this means I have to Handbrake but its cool... Only thing I need to get working with http is the m3u playlists so I can pickup any song I want, shuffle and so on... Anyone else intrested about this project?
EDIT2: BTW Could this thread be transfered to better area? "Networking" seems to be about carries only....
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Wondering if there has been any progress made in this area? I would use SSHFSDroid but that doesn't work on Android 4.2 anymore...
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Wondering if there has been any progress made in this area? I would use SSHFSDroid but that doesn't work on Android 4.2 anymore...
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It now supports Android 4.2
Sorry to bump an 9 year old thread, but it still appears in Google search on the first page, so any ideas to manage this? I have nas with debian, where I can have both ftp or sftp, going to use mountainduck on pc with cryptomator, now using freefilesync (pc) with sshfs/winfsp but it is quite complicated to mount though works as a charm. Yet looking for a complete solution for win laptop, Linux server and Android phone to be in sync on the basis of so-called transparent encryption. Any ideas or experience on this?
It seems like the basic music player doesn't support streams, there doesn't appear to be any support in windows media player for streams either...
In the end I searched for some tools and GSplayer came up as supporting streams, so i tried that and copied the CAB install file to the storage card, it showed up in the start menu...I can run it and open a URL or local .pls file and it starts to stream...you see the percentage buffer quickly shoot up to 100% but then nothing happens...no audio, nothing.
I'm basically trying to play audio from an internet radio station I use a lot at home (xfm.nl) if you click "Luister Live" on the left you'll see shortcuts for all the streams.
Can anyone help? My settings are OK I think, I can get to the internet and recieve my email and use all the web based apps, so I don't think its a connection thing...maybe GSPlayer just doesn't support the HD2?
Try Skyfire browser.
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It seems like the basic music player doesn't support streams, there doesn't appear to be any support in windows media player for streams either...
In the end I searched for some tools and GSplayer came up as supporting streams, so i tried that and copied the CAB install file to the storage card, it showed up in the start menu...I can run it and open a URL or local .pls file and it starts to stream...you see the percentage buffer quickly shoot up to 100% but then nothing happens...no audio, nothing.
I'm basically trying to play audio from an internet radio station I use a lot at home (xfm.nl) if you click "Luister Live" on the left you'll see shortcuts for all the streams.
Can anyone help? My settings are OK I think, I can get to the internet and recieve my email and use all the web based apps, so I don't think its a connection thing...maybe GSPlayer just doesn't support the HD2?
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I have WunderRadio but since you know the stream you want to play coreplayer will open it.
I just tried this using Skyfire and GSPlayer.
I clicked on the Winamp mobile link, and it downloaded the .pls stream to my storage card. GSPlayer opened automatically. I've set GSPlayer to own .pls files, so maybe that would help.
Just tried clicking on the downloaded .pls file and it also opens up GSPlayer. Hope that helps! At least you know that it can work
I want to know something fairly similar, is it possible to make a player stream a song or file instead of having to download it first. Sometimes with very large files I just want to play it and let it download as it plays instead of waiting for the entire file to download before being able to play it.
Try Groovemobile or nanogroove.
I just upgraded from a Touch Pro 2.
I have a few shoutcast .pls files I used to open and stream in coreplayer 1.3.6 build 7427 with no problems.
I have changed from o2 to orange but all other streaming seems ok (e.g nanogroove/groovemobile/youtube/myplayer etc).
On the HD2 when I try to open the .pls files I get an unknown file format (0106) error or sometimes coreplayer just crashes.
Anyone know how to get coreplayer working with there files again?
I enjoy accessing last.fm using the skyfire browser.
Try SPB Radio, pretty good!
I just wanted to thank everyone posting suggestions, I will be trying some of them out soon
There is also coreplayer which handles .pls and .m3u file attachments.
Just out of curiosity, I have a Bravo with the new 2.2 android update, but I have had this problem even before the update.
I install a video file through Motorola Media Link, or just drag and drop without Media Link, or remove the memory card from the phone and use a card reader to install a video file. I have even changed the settings on the phone when connecting with a USB cable (USB Drive, Media link etc).
The video file cant be read by the stock media player or any media player programs I get from the Android market. I delete the file and try it several times different ways, and the video works. But it takes me hours to delete repeat until it works.
I have tried each time in turn thinking it is one certain setting that I am doing, but the setting that did work, now doesnt and one of the other ways does.
Is there something I'm missing? Please help if you have a fool proof way.
Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Is the video file a file in which can be played on a mobile device? MP4 is the most common, but not all mobile devices can play a wide variety of media files.
As the name suggests, I'm having some issues with audio playback on my new Iconia. I transferred all my music from my HTC Evo, to my PC, then to the Iconia using Acer's downloadable drivers. If I open the folder via a market downloaded file explorer...I have no issues. It is when I try to play the files in absolutely anything else that I get errors. Just FYI, the files are a mix of .mp3 and .wma files. Any thoughts?
Chlballi
Edit: I'm using File Explorer HD, and only the .mp3 files are playing within the explorer...the .wma files prompt for an app and fail
you can use windows media player to sync music
As far as I know, the WMA format isn't supported in Honeycomb natively.
I had the same problem but its was with google music. I tried power amp from the market and all my music plays fine now. And all my files are wma.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer.unlock
i ended up doing something similar with MortPlayer--still wish it would've worked with Google Music...I was realling digging the UI of that one. Oh well, at least my music plays now. If anyone ends up with a thought or a workaround for the native Iconia app, keep us posted here. I'd love to see a device where all of the stock software worked as it was intended!
Chlballi
Has anyone tried to sync music to our Acer's using Windows Media Player? If that can be used to send all the music to the device AND be able to use the default app...I'd be in good shape.
Chlballi
chlballi said:
Has anyone tried to sync music to our Acer's using Windows Media Player? If that can be used to send all the music to the device AND be able to use the default app...I'd be in good shape.
Chlballi
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Yes. I did mention WMP above.
But I only did sync MP3 files, not WMA files. So I don't know about WMA part. MP3 is recognized and played flawlessly using stock music player.
Another note, if your music info (ID3 Tags) is not in English, make sure you have proper character encoding before syncing. Otherwise, they will be displayed as garbage. I think all ID3 Tags should be converted to UTF8, not sure, just used Foobar2000 to fix all my Japanese-title music.
After exchanging my first Iconia to BB for some other issues, I did as you mentioned with using the tablet as an external mp3 player in WMP and everything worked flawlessly! Thanks I also found a great .apk to be able to mount my NTFS HDDs to the tab without issue. So I'm in great shape now!
Chlballi
I tried an experiment with the music -- after syncing the music to my tablet using WMP, I noticed that it placed all of the files into the music folder within the root sdcard (internal memory) and google music pp worked great. I moved all the files from that folder to a folder created on the external_SD, and the app fails like before. Apparently the Music app that comes with our Iconias cannot see anything outside of its native internal memory
Chlballi
If I download an mp3 podcast to my N7, it appears in the music player and I can listen to it just fine. Same with my HTC 1V phone. If I transfer the mp3 to my phone via Bluetooth, all is well, BUT , if I transfer the file via ftp, which is worlds faster, the music player cannot 'see' the file, so does not automatically add it to the library. The file is present in the music folder and will play if I locate it manually and select it via a file manager. Can anyone explain why the music player does not see it and how I might be able to fix this?
I ran into this recently with some of my MP3s, the problem ended up being with the files themselves. I used MP3 Diags to fix the issues with my files, and now they work perfectly.
http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/