Comments on: Music streams…the one force that will drive mobile data into the mass market

By: Oren Levine

Oren Levine — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:36:31 +0000

I agree strongly - I think that streaming music is a natural application for mobile devices, whether from "traditional" radio stations or from customized streams (think Rhapsody or Pandora). If you can pardon the plug, we at Nokia S60 released an open-source Shoutcast client in order to encourage this sort of development for the S60 platform

By: Tam Hanna

Tam Hanna — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:36:39 +0000

Hi you all,
thank you for the insightful comments!

@Brennan:
just forwarded this to the Linux head on my team!

@Ted:I meant advertising as in make people know about the system,. Advertising in the radio stream is dumb, but I didnt intend that.

Best regards
Tam Hanna

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:35:58 +0000

Radio could be a killer app – if only people knew about it – and practically no one does.
The Treo IS my ‘transistor’ radio.
With Sprint 1xRTT (not EV-DO) I can stream upto and including 128kbps.

A reason that radio is popular is precisely the fact that one doesn’t know the exact playlist. It’s an opportunity to be exposed to new artists/songs. (Ipods/song lists on my SD card provide known music if I so desire)

One area I strongly disagree is advertising supported internet radio. There are so many advertising-free stations that I won’t tolerate ad based stations.
And since there are so many free stations – no need to subsribe to Sirrus or XM here in the States.

ps I really enjoy this blog – a pleasure and informative read!

By: Brennan

Brennan — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:32:52 +0000

Hi, you might want to check out listo, a php script I wrote that emulates a shoutcast server (for one client at a time). It transcodes to any desired bitrate using LAME. You can queue up songs in Blazer while PocketTunes streams in the background. I use it to stream to my 650p fairly successfully (using EDGE, at about 48kbps). It's free software, too. Brennan