Streaming mp3 audio

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3 total messages Started by Bill D. Pirkle Fri, 18 Apr 2003 17:20

#686

Author: Bill D. Pirkle
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 17:20

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Hi all,

I'd like to add streaming audio (mp3 format) to my app, and I'm
looking for an appropriate player or player component.  The stream
would originate at our company's Icecast server.  There's no need for
skins, visual, playlists, or even the ability for the user to select a
stream.  I just want to hook up to our stream and play our audio.

So far, everything I've found has been some combination of:	
	1) expensive
	2) big
	3) intrusive
	4) locked into the provider's Internet radio stations

A component would be nice, so that I could integrate it directly into
my app.  But I'm happy to use a standalone app if I can pass it the
necessary information.  Web-based, would be okay too, especially if I
could run it within an instance of TCppWebBrowser.  Free would be
nice, but I could pay a few hundred dollars if necessary.  Over a
thousand is out of my budget.

I really want to make things easy on my users.  I considered embedding
Windows Media Player via ActiveX, but found that on many computers WMP
doesn't properly play streamed mp3. The end user can fix this via
upgrading/reconfiguring, but the whole point is to make things easy on
them.  Many of my users aren't technical folks.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Bill D. Pirkle

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Re: Streaming mp3 audio

#694

Author: Prismatik
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 08:25

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Have you looked at the FMOD library?
www.fmod.org

Hope that helps.

mbpirkle@GETRIDOFTHIS.worldnet.att.net (Bill D. Pirkle) wrote in 
news:3ea0312a.85308897@newsgroups.borland.com:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to add streaming audio (mp3 format) to my app, and I'm
> looking for an appropriate player or player component.  The stream
> would originate at our company's Icecast server.  There's no need for
> skins, visual, playlists, or even the ability for the user to select a
> stream.  I just want to hook up to our stream and play our audio.
> 
> So far, everything I've found has been some combination of:     
>      1) expensive
>      2) big
>      3) intrusive
>      4) locked into the provider's Internet radio stations
> [snip]

Re: Streaming mp3 audio

#696

Author: Bill D. Pirkle
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 04:32

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On 11 May 2003 01:25:35 -0700, Prismatik
<prismatiksolutionsREMOVE_THIS@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Have you looked at the FMOD library?
>www.fmod.org
>
>Hope that helps.

Thank you for your reply!  As it turns out, I found this player:
	http://www.freedomaudio.com
It is Java-based and intended to be hosted in a Web page.  So I hosted
it within TCppWebBrowser and it does a very nice job.  We had our
first public test last night.

I'll keep FMOD in mind.  Nice to have more than one good option on
hand!

Bill D. Pirkle

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