chipmalee wrote: > Wow this sounds complicated. Downloading new firmware? So it's not going > to be a simple URL fix. > > I dont understand how they can have streams other than 3mu or amu. What > keywords should I search for about this technology? Are the other iHeart > stations going to follow suit in which case we are going to have some > serious problem because there's thousands of iHeart stations in this > country.
This is not new firmware - this is a plugin to your LMS system. If you are using mysqeezebox.com - then nothing will work. 1. Files with ending such as m3u and m3u8 and pls - are playlist - all they contain are files name or URLs of stream to be played. Never heard of amu. 2. Radio streams have and audio part such as MP3, WMA and AAC and a transport part. The SB player such as SB3 Touch, radio can play the original plain HTTP. There are other transport such as Flash (often RTMP URLs). There is a new transport created by Apple called HLS and there is a similar non proprietary called DASH. Some broadcasters are changing over to HLS as it is more efficient and is backed by Apple. What each broadcaster does, is there own choice. iHeart is just an aggregator - a way of getting extra ad revenue by forcing users to go through the aggregator. Also aggregrators can sometime takes over the internet streams to simplify task for station. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107998
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