Listen to a shoutcast with Android

user238801 picture user238801 · Dec 26, 2009 · Viewed 29.5k times · Source

since quite some time I'm trying to listen to .pls files (shoutcasts). I have to say that I failed horrible. Since StreamFurious can do it it must be possible. First I tried to connect to the shoutcast via sockets (TCP and UDP) --> failed. I couldn't even receive one byte from the server.

I'm at the verge of tears. I don't even have a clue what's the best way to establish a connection and afterwards continually download/receive the data stream.

I really hope someone can point me to the right direction and give me a short code snippet if available.

Rgds Layne

Answer

CommonsWare picture CommonsWare · Dec 26, 2009

You can try these resources:

Shoutcast streaming

http://ostermiller.org/shoutgrab/

http://code.google.com/p/streamscraper/

http://code.google.com/p/castor-streamer/

http://mp3imagetagextr.sourceforge.net/ShoutcastPlsDownloader/index.html

From what I can tell, you may need to handle the PLS download (via HTTP if I understand correctly) and parsing yourself, but you can then hand the actual audio stream URLs to MediaPlayer for playback. Assuming those streams are within specifications (and not all are), Android should be able to play them back. But I am not a Shoutcast expert by any means.