Re: Developing replacement for AT

>>>>> "glenn" == Glenn Richards <[email protected]> writes:

    glenn> I guess you just can't keep everyone happy... but the
    glenn> majority of people seem to want streaming media / internet
    glenn> radio support, so we'll include this as it seems to be
    glenn> fairly trivial.

One feature that I've wanted for a while for the AT or some other player
is the ability to "throw" a streaming audio URL to it. In other words,
if I go to say www.npr.org and want to listen to this weeks' Wait Wait
Don't Tell Me show, I'd like to be able to click on the RealAudio link
and have the option of starting the playback on the AudioTron through
my home stereo system, instead of out the laptop's speakers.

Right now the hack I use to get this working is with NiceCast, which
hijacks the audio output of any locally running program (in this case
RealPlayer) and re-encodes it to an IceCast server on the laptop,
which the AT through TurtleRadio connects to. And this works OK;
but it would be nice to be able to just throw a URL without
having to go through too onerous a process.

(I realize this case would also require licensing the RealPlayer decoder;
even just MP3 and WMA would work too though.)

Just throwing it out there as my wish-item.

-dalvenjah
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