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swerve tweeter
Joined: 09/09/05
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Android version of the site
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 9:23 AM
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Regarding the Android version of artistserver, i cant get anything to stream or download, also if i wanted to look at the big version of the site on my phone which is a htc desire btw how can i do that?
Duth anyone know?
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Sonic Wallpaper
Joined: 05/22/01
Location: San Diego, CA
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RE: Android version of the site
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 1:51 PM
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Hi - we don't have an android version of the site - are you seeing the tiny old school lofi mobile site, or the new one that is for iOS devices? I'll have to check my code that checks for mobiles - I thought I was only routing IOS devices to the new mobile site.
I believe the issue is due to a requirement on Android for the streams to be sent with specific headers that allows for requesting chunks of the data steam and not the whole data stream. I've experimented with streaming this way on my systems and the platform I develop with, and so far the results were creating a heavier load on the system than when serving files the way I normally do.
I will at some time revisit this code and try again - but I unfortunately don't have a lot of open development time, and I have to go with the numbers - IOS devices are more common on our site than Android, so my mobile efforts have to start there.
How do you get to the main site on your Android device? Right now, if you are getting routed there, the only way would be to fake your browser's user agent and pass a browser user agent. Keep in mind that you won't be able to stream on the desktop version of the site either - you'd just have access to more areas since the mobile site is a slimmed down version of the site.
Sorry I can't just 'make it work' - I can tell you that one of my goals for next year is to move streaming off of my servers and out onto Amazon's cloud services - this will allow for streaming that the Android devices will be able to use.
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swerve tweeter
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RE: Android version of the site
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 1:00 PM
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Thanks Gideon,
For the information, i understand it takes time effort and money to make all these things work. And i really appreciate what you do for not only me but for everyone on here.
I look forward to the new cloud based streaming youve got planned too peace out Ant
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Sonic Wallpaper
Joined: 05/22/01
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RE: Android version of the site
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 2:03 PM
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swerve tweeter wrote: i understand it takes time effort and money to make all these things work. And i really appreciate what you do for not only me but for everyone on here.
thank you  unfortunately, people don't have access to the ArtistServer that is running in my head - that version... is awesome!  It's just that whole time factor of trying to get it out of the mind and translated to code.
Once I get the android streaming working - I'll make a posting. Possibly I can optimize it, and isolate this streaming method only to Android devices which will lower the impact it would have on the system resources.
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