And it even works! Too cool.

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Govan,

Calsim8 posted this notice two places, so there's some discussion over on this thread covering those issues.

My tests have shown it has better audio fidelity and less 'hiccups' if you point it directly to an MP3 file and not a Shoutcast server.

Casmin8, a question for you. Since the tag is doing all the work, playing these files back, is there any plan or willingness for Violet to release the source code and/or specification to create our own api_stream.jsp type interfaces? Or, will be be forced to continue working to reverse engineer these things?

I've been testing this with my tag/tag and it simply does not work. I've tried numerous MP3 files as well as a shoutcast stream. When I call

api_stream.jsp

, it gives me a response message of

which informs me that it was successful.

The tag/tag does nothing, and if I check my messages online, I see a "WEB RADIO" message in the archive.

MEH!

A man goes to the doctor and says....nice.

Shoutcast streams can be played. Save the PLS file to your local file, then open it in your favorite text editor. Use that IP address and port in your URL and you should be able to stream.

Try this one then...

Technically, it should work. Right?

http://api.nabaztag.com/vl/FR/api_strea … heLove.mp3

I tried the URL you gave me, and input my tk & sn. I got a confirmation reply. Looking at my messages online, I see that it was immediately archived, but never played.

Last edited by bunnywarez (2007-01-25 22:02:38)

Bunnywarez, it worked for me, it does put gaps in it though.

I wonder if it is the compression used in the files. I typically compress my files 256 VBR, so that could have something to do with it. I'll have to make some test files and see if I can figure out a baseline on MP3 playback.

I tried the FreeFM URL and the bunny's tumy goes solid red, the nose blinks blue, the ears rotate, the tummy flashes a light blue/white, the nose goes solid blue and the belly goes soild violet, the ears go back to their original position and then nothing else.

the problem has been solved!

So, it seems that the little bunny and/or the api cannot resolve domain names properly. I tested all of this over and over again and I finally got it to work once I input the IP address of the domain instead of the domain name. I got a stream to work as well as a standard MP3. The MP3 was encoded at 160kbps and had fairly steady skipping but was tolerable given the fidelity of the bunny, itself.

I'm a happy bunny, once again.

I decided to stick my bunny into blue mode to check some things out and discovered that I left the DNS field blank in the advanced settings section. I filled it in and tested it out and that allowed the bunny to resolve domains and play the MP3s. I'm now curious if doing this will also correct the violet server domain resolution problem.

FWIW, it took me a while to configure the bunny and I had to use the advanced settings and use a static IP address instead of DHCP. When I took nabs traveling with me, I forgot to reset the DNS entry when I returned home.

I also want to thank everyone in this forum for being so helpful while I struggled to figure this out. Hopefully these trials will make other peoples' experiences all the more better.

Sorry to have to ask this, but im not sure how you are running the api address?
Just punch this into any browser with the right token and mac address and link to a file and it will play?

Noob
Lincoln

Tried that spy one above and it's working fine?????