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Realtime Audio Conversion And Serving

Posted by timothy on from the universalizationism dept.

Hobadee writes "First of all, Happy Christmas and Merry New Year! This year for Christmas, my dad and I decided to give my mom a Linksys WMLS11B. (Radio which can play MP3 streams) Since my mom listens to a lot of international news radio on the Internet, we figured this would be great so that she wouldn't have to sit at the computer all the time. The problem is that most of the stations she listens to are either RealMedia or Windows Audio streams, while the player only supports MP3 streams. (It claims to support WMA, but we haven't had any luck in our fiddling yet.) So here is the question: Would it be possible to get other types of files to play on the device? My idea is to have an intermediate server download, convert to MP3, and re-stream the files, but I'm not sure of the implementation. Would this be easily do-able with something like Icecast and Lame?"

4 of 153 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hello? Standards? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ogg is not worthwhile to implement. It's only "free" if Linksys engineers' time is worthless.

    Sincerely,
    Joe Sixpack
    VP, Engineering
    Linksys

  2. Re:Dude, you're gettin a Squeezebox! by seanadams.com · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uh... I think you mean "per annum".

    No, it's "per anum". Obviously you haven't seen their fee schedule. Much worse than "through the nose".

  3. Re:Dude, you're gettin a Squeezebox! by tahii · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and I'm not a Slim employee!

    So, you're more of the chubby kind?

  4. Re:Dude, you're gettin a Squeezebox! by clayton_dsp · · Score: 2, Funny
    MP3 encoding is automatically enabled if a lame installation is detected.
    Why do you have to install WinME to get MP3 encoding?