Streaming Audio over WiFi — Nokia N80 — All About Symbian Forum Archive

Telumehtar 25 May 2006, 10:41

I've been trying for a while to use my phone as an internet radio listening device on my home WiFi network. Success has been mixed.

The main problem is that many sites implement their own interfaces in Java or Flash and these don't seem to work in the Nokia Browser. There are also many types of links, and the only ones that seem to work are ones ending in .ram. .ram streaming audio links are hard to find, but I've found a few and listed them here:

http://robfisher.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=NokiaN80Radio

Another problem is that RealPlayer often doesn't want to connect. Setting its default connection to your WiFi connection helps, but doesn't always work. I regularly get "server timed out" messages. YMMV.

I also found, via an AAS article, this Shoutcast client, which works really well. In fact, since finding this I've pretty much given up on the RealPlayer:
http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/s60internetradio/ClientPage.html

Once this is installed, you can go here:
http://www.shoutcast.com

I made it work by saving the .pls files from that site and copying them onto my phone into the \Shoutcast folder.

One last tip: make *sure* you're connecting via WiFi and not 3G, or you may get a very big bill.

Enjoy!

LesLesleyson 25 May 2006, 22:16

Cheers man, that Shoutcast client is a winner - works really well.

icemanjimbo04 27 May 2006, 14:15

I downloaded Shoutcast radio and it works with the sample playlist and downloaded a playlist to the phone too, but I cant seem to locate the \Shoutcast directory on my phone in the file manager? I saved the application and playlist to my phone memmory.. How do I save the playlist to the directory if i cant see it in the file manager??

Any ides?? Thanks..

kosta 09 Mar 2009, 12:51

I have nokia E51 and I can't see folder c:/shoutcast/ from its file manager nor computer.
But SIC FTP client is able to write any file downloaded to that folder.
Another thing I discovered is, that in order to let shoutcast client connect, I must manually replace every server name in playlist by its IP address.