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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?"

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  1. Re:Possible by PornMaster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, well, since the audio isn't syncing to anything, and is already delayed from the on-air broadcast, I can't imagine it would be too harmful to have a 20-second buffer to help out anyway.

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  2. Re:Easy as pie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You'll probably need to tweak it a bit to convert OGG / WMA / RM streams as well, but it should be fairly straightforward.

    Uh, no. AFAICS that's the hard part the guy wants answering.

  3. Re:I have an idea by Tonetheman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is called ask slashdot for a reason moron. Maybe this dude did not even know what to search for to start with! I have not heard of DarIce or Slim Devices and I would not have known what either was based on the name. Take a chill. Have a merry fuckin Christmas.

  4. Re:Dude, you're gettin a Squeezebox! by phr1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Source code for codecs included? What codecs? Winamp? Realaudio? I thought that this was the hard part, and difficult to get or release source code for.

  5. Good suggestion by iamnotacrook · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The parent poster is correct; that solution will work and is straightforward.

    But one has to ask: Why didnt the original article poster (Hobadee) investigate what product would have suited his mother's needs better?

    As they say a problem avoided is a problem solved, that is the geek way.

    1. Re:Good suggestion by Knetzar · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yes, but the smart business person knows that a problem created and then solved tends to make one look like a hero.

  6. Re:Hello? Standards? by GlassUser · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Linksys isn't giving their product away. That point won't work here. I didn't say free anywhere.

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  7. Be Patient Grasshopper.... by Basehart · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe, shoulda, woulda waited until the Jan 2005 Macworld where I hear there may be an announcement that Apple is making the iPod compatible with Sirius. Much better than listening to the crap pumped out by Clearchannel.

  8. Re:Easy as pie by smchris · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Why are you coming down on the guy? His advise is as clear and thorough as a typical linux man page.