[mythtv] streaming MP3

[Michael J. Sherman]

Streams push out an associated tag that is a short description of the 
stream material, so that could be put next to the URL without any 
problem.  Also it may be useful to add bit rate (128 kbps, 56 kbps, etc) 
and sampling frequency (44.1 KHz, etc).


Chuck Ferring wrote:
> It might be nice to also include a short description for each of the
> URL's in the list.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael J. Sherman [mailto:msherman at dsbox.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:04 AM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv] streaming MP3
> 
> 
> With the recent mention of MythRadio, I've been thinking about how best 
> to add streaming MP3 support.  I think it would be easiest to perhaps 
> add this as an additional aduio source in MythMusic.  The top level menu
> 
> of music sources in the "Select Music" menu listing could be:
> 
> + My Music
> + Audio CD
> + Streaming Audio
> 
> Then you can configure it to list the streaming MP3 URLs you're 
> interested in under the Streaming Audio option.   I'm guessing a new 
> mysql table could be used (musicstreamlist?).
> 
> On playing the streaming source, it could use the same basic interface 
> as when playing MP3 or Ogg files, but the position slider would be 
> disabled, and the headers in the table would be altered I imagine to 
> something like #, Source instead of #, Artist, Title, Length.  You could
> 
> select multiple streaming servers and still use the |<< and >>| keys to 
> jump between streams.
> 
> I've done some hacking with icecast so I know a little about streaming 
> MP3 code, so I'd be happy to start on this and offer up some of the 
> changes in a while unless someone else would rather run with this. 
> Streaming MP3 is the last thing I really want in my mythical convergence
> 
> box ;).
> 
> Let me know what you all think.
> 
> -Mike
> 

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Michael J. Sherman  |  Software Developer
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