Question

I’m currently working on a app for a podcast (katg.com) which will let you listen live etc… however, I have not found any open source code available to stream shoutcast. I know there are some ways of doing it, but I find it hard to find any available code on the net that explains it for a java/android beginner like myself.

Anyone know of any libs/tutorial/examples/code that shows how to do this on android?

Answer 1

As Erich seems to have accidentally posted the wrong link, here’s another resource about the protocol: http://forums.radiotoolbox.com/viewtopic.php?t=74

The shoutcast stream itself is accessible via HTTP. For example via Telnet:

$ telnet myshoutcastserver.com 8000
GET / HTTP 1.1

..............a lot of streaming stuff........

So you could try to buffer the stream data and when there is enough to play pass it to a MediaPlayer instance.