Listen to a shoutcast with Android

Question

since quite some time I\'m trying to listen to .pls files (shoutcasts). I have to say that I failed horrible. Since StreamFurious can do it it must be possible. First I tri

Answer 1

Maybe late, but VLC for android was the only really stable app I could find for this. I set up an icecast server on my linux box and could listen to it perfectly using VLC on my old Nexus one. The only (stupid) problem VLC has is that you cant bookmark your URLs in it, you always have to type (or paste) them.

Answer 2

Android 2.2 (FroYo) now natively streams Shoutcast streams.

For older devices, in addition to the above links see http://code.google.com/p/npr-android-app/ which includes a proxy for buffering shoutcast streams.

Answer 3

You can try these resources:

Shoutcast streaming

http://ostermiller.org/shoutgrab/

http://code.google.com/p/streamscraper/

http://code.google.com/p/castor-streamer/

http://mp3imagetagextr.sourceforge.net/ShoutcastPlsDownloader/index.html

From what I can tell, you may need to handle the PLS download (via HTTP if I understand correctly) and parsing yourself, but you can then hand the actual audio stream URLs to MediaPlayer for playback. Assuming those streams are within specifications (and not all are), Android should be able to play them back. But I am not a Shoutcast expert by any means.