Using Kplaylist to stream music to your mobile device

[joostjodel]

Sorry for crossposting, but I thought this topic might be of interest to some of you in this section of the forum:
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I got Kplaylist streaming working on my Nokia N82. The player I am using is Coreplayer, which is to my knowledge the only player for Symbian that can play streamed mp3s. Unfortunately it costs money (unless.....). It works really nice though. Coreplayer even displays cover art if you've enabled the " EXTM3U feature" in kplaylist.

Coreplayer works for: Symbian S60 3rd; Symbian UIQ v3; Windows Mobile PocketPC; palm; and more apparently coming.


The developer of Symbianoggplay is working on streaming too, but the development version at this point only streams ogg files it seems. I would suggest keeping an eye on this player because it is really nice (i use it all the time for playing local mp3s/oggs/etc.)


The options I have enabled in Kplaylist are:

admin control
* Allow download
* Enable streaming engine
* Send file extension
* Write ID3v2 with stream
* Enable LAME support?

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* Use EXTM3U feature?
* Playlists inline?
* Playlist = m3u (although asx works too with Coreplayer)

Any combination of options work however, this is just the way I have it set up.
TIP: I have created an extra user just to use with my mobile phone, with a password that is easy to enter on a mobile phone keyboard.


There are a couple of caveats in streaming to your Symbian S60 3rd device:

- If you encode your mp3s with LAME (which I've set to 80 kbit, since I am on a flatfee T-Mobile 128 kb capped UMTS connection), no proper song length is sent along with your mp3s, probably because LAME encodes mp3s on the fly. This means that you have to manually skip to the next song upon finish, because Coreplayer doesn't see when the song is finished. Even when Coreplayer initially displays the song length correctly in the playlist, upon playing the actual song the length is set to 00:00 and this confuses Coreplayer.

- Sometimes I want to download a whole album to my mobile phone. But the archiver in use by Kplaylist archives individual songs, not the whole album. This means you have to manually create a directory on your mobile phone to unarchive the zip to. It would be great to have Kplaylist archive the directory instead of the songs contained in it.

- Weird enough there seem to be less hisses/pops with my T-Mobile connection than when I stream over a WiFi connection.. (?)

- Battery life... My N82 is drained after 2 hours or so...


Hope that helps!!

I am incredibly happy with this set up, which is exactly what I was looking for: to be able to access my mp3s from anywhere even from my mobile phone.
@ the developer: thanks for this great app!