We rolled out iPhone streaming today!
So now when you go to somafm.com on your iPhone, you get an iPhone-specific site with links for both EDGE (32-56k) and WiFi (128k) streams.
Labels: infrastructure, internet radio, SomaFM, the new distribution, webcasting
posted by Rusty Hodge at
Friday, June 20, 2008
27 Comments:
I don't have an iPhone (I live in Japan), but I do have my Soma FM t-shirt! This has absolutely nothing to do with your post...sorry!
Maybe an iföhn is hip, but why do you preserve this mini-site to iföhn-users? What's da url, when i want to use my no-apple-but-also-able-to-surf-and-stream mobile phone?
Thank _you_, Rusty and Tag! I've been looking forward to this since I got my ipod touch. I love GS! Keep up the great work.
Listening to Drone Zone on my Touch. Just need some graphics instead of the QT logo and I'm in heaven!!
AWESOME!
The mini-site is iPhone specific. We also have a WAP site and a XML site that gets displayed for the appropriate phones when they connect.
About that graphic for the QT player: there seems to be no way to make the player display a graphic, at least in this version of the iPhone operating system. Perhaps in version 2.0.
Any chance I can listen to GS on my Blackberry Curve? Show me how and I will send my donation in asap!
Thanks!
A huge fan
Rusty,
do you have a list of "appropriate phones"
I am running Windows Mobile 6, but my media player says "can't play playlist" when I try to connect.
This is absolutely awesome, Rusty. Thank you. Trying in the car tomorrow… curious how well EDGE will handle that! :-)
Try http://somafm.com/wma.xhtml from your Windows Media phone and let me know if that works.
Yes! that link for Windows Media worked like a charm - thansk for the help. It seems your new stations (i.e. Lush) aren't there but still fantastic plus,
Rusty,
Love the streaming on iPhone!
I hope you have time to see the new AOL Radio and Pandora applications for iPhone 2.0 and get inspired to do something similar for SomaFM. That would allow graphics and other cool features.
AOL and Pandora have lots of money, and lots of developers. Unfortunately, we don't have those kinds of resources.
One thing our solution offers however: it will background. So you don't have to stop listening to music to check email, SMS, etc. (You can't surf the web while we're playing, however.)
Hello,
i'm from the uk and your iphone streaming works perfectly via edge network and i also purchased a iphone app from the itunes store call "tuner" and it lists all your stations on there ,the problem is that your stations will not stream via the "tuner" player but work via your website via edge network on iphone and why is this?
Nick: I tested the iPhone Tuner app as well, and our streams were playing over WiFi. I don't have a 3G phone so couldn't test there, but I don't see why they wouldn't play. Are you using it on WiFi or Edge?
Hi Rusty,
Cool and I have dropped various messages about this on other message boards also...
What i'm doing is trying to connect via edge to your stream with the "tuner" app which i bought from the app store and it will not connect at all via edge but will stream perfect on wifi ,but when I go straight to your site on the iphone and then connect to a station choosing edge and it streams perfectly.
Please note all I can get in the rural area where I am is edge only and of course wifi but it seems to be defeating the object when i'm paying for it but then dropping to wifi.
Excellent work Rusty! I've been waiting on this. Some donations coming your. Keep up the great work.
-K
Nick:
If you're on EDGE, you'll need to use streams that are generally under 56kb of they won't work. The Tuner app I think defaults to the 128k streams.
So check the directory for the 56k streams (which rarely skip on EDGE) or the 24/32k streams which never skip.
I typically listen to the 56k feeds when I'm on EDGE.
I am considering buying one of the new 3g iphones-- will the somafm site for edge still work?
I have yet to buy an iphone, but this functionality has been something I've been dreaming about! Very exciting news!
(just donated, 'bout time I stopped being a mooch ;)
Yes, EDGE streams work just fine on 3G phones.
beautiful....many thanks!!!!!
Hi! Great!
I realize that all the streams are MP3, is there a chance to get aacplus streamed to the iPhone?
The iPhone (nor iTunes, or Quicktime for that matter) does not support aacPlus. We're hoping that a third-party player will come out with aacPlus support, and we'll support it when/if it does.
Hey Rusty,
As a SomaFM donator, I was very excited to find out you guys did me a solid with the streaming.
But dunno...Went to the link listed with my non 3G iPhone and got to the screenie pictured with the list ("Getting Started, EDGE Streams...")
but it seems the only link that went anywhere was "Main Site." All others did nothing but list the address in the address bar and remain static. Sorta feelin like my GrandPa right now.
Any advice?
Thanks in advance,
D
@DaveFromBrooklyn-
Make sure you have Javascript turned on. The behavior you're seeing is what might happen if Javascript is not enabled. go to Settings -> Safari and make sure Javascript it enabled.
That brings up a good point though, we should test to make sure Javascript is enabled, and tell you to turn it on if it's not...
Eureka!
Javascript now enabled...
Works beautifully.
Many thanks, Rusty.
Say Hey to Big Url for me.
For what it's worth, the streams and mobile homepage work great on the Samsung Instinct. Awesome tunes folks.
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