Pocket Streamer -- .NET CF App To Select And Play Music

[Janak Parekh]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/PocketStreamer.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.codeproject.com/useritem...ketStreamer.asp</a><br /><br /></div>"This application allows you to browse the music library held on your desktop PC from your Pocket PC, select an artist, album, track or radio station, stream it over a network connection and listen to it on your Pocket PC. Using this application you can carry your entire music collection around with you without the hassle of downloading selected tracks to an expansion card. You can also listen to many Internet radio stations without being tied to your PC. As long as you have a network connection to your desktop, you can listen to your music library wherever you are, including theoretically from the other side of the world by using a WiFi hotspot."<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/parekh-20040523-PocketStreamer.jpg" /><br /><br />Not only is this a free little application, it's a client-server development example -- source code is provided so you budding .NET CF developers can take a look and use the codebase as a model. Cool stuff. 8) I'm assuming that there is no official support, though, since it's a one-person "Unedited Reader Contribution".<br /><br />Incidentally, there are also other downloads available from The Code Project that use .NET CF and do a number of useful tasks; you can take a look at the <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/netcf/">listing here</a>.

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I like the idea of the app, but am a bit hesitant to install the .Net stuff...

[Willmonwah]

Has anyone gotten this to work? It seems like when you connect to your computer via the Activesync network connection, you need to change the location to work. I can only go so far as to retrieve the available music and playlists, but can't get Windows Media to play the songs, getting an error message about the network connection or the file type.

-Will

[jgrnt1]

I'm not sure what this does that I cannot already do, other that starting WMP on my PPC with the proper URL (you still have to enter the PC's IP address in an earlier step). I already stream music, video and live TV to my PPC via wifi.

In fact, PPCT has a thread on the subject here (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16660&highlight=streaming&sid=efeb2fa618e73d4ed5f63cabdc246d77).

If I remember correctly, with Resco Explorer you can map the network drive as local on your PPC and pick music files directly off the drive, too.

If somebody has used this app and there really are advantages I'm missing, please let me know. I'm not going to play with it unless it provides a benefit these other methods don't have.

[Handy]

This seems like a pointless application. Resco File Explorer together with GSPlayer or WMP does a fine job of this already!

[humor]

The huge advantage is it encodes your music to a lower bit rate for streaming over CDMA/GSM cell connections. I could see how people could get some use out of this.

I have an Samsung i700 PPCPE with an unlimited data plan...and now i can access all 20GB of my wma files anytime, anywhere.

BTW - You could do this already...just use Windows media encoder to stream from your sound card and use vinyl.