Streaming Audio From a Website

[dbeck316]

Hi,

I found this cool website that I can stream audio from. I already have Tivo Home Media set up and I can play mp3s from my computer via an Ethernet connection.

I do not want to run a long cable from the headphone jack on my computer through a Y cable. The quality of that is bad.

Is it possible to play music streamed from the net over the existing Ethernet connection to my Tivo and stereo? Is there a way to publish the stream?

DBeck316

[ZeoTiVo]

there was something people did with winamp to make the TiVo think it wa an MP3 file to be played instead of a stream. I thianka 3rd part HME app called Galleon had something that would do this as well.

[dbeck316]

Can you or anyone be more specific. I'm not super technical.

[wmcbrine]

You'd need to tell us more about the "cool website", but if it provides an MP3 stream, then all you need is a playlist to point to it. For .m3u format, that can as simple as the URL (in a plain text file). This works in Tivo Desktop (IIRC) and recent versions of pyTivo.

[dbeck316]

The "cool site" is www.pandora.com. How can I tell if it has an mp3 or m3u stream?

A text file? (.txt) How would I set that up?

[richsadams]

The "cool site" is www.pandora.com. How can I tell if it has an mp3 or m3u stream?

A text file? (.txt) How would I set that up?Pandora (http://www.pandora.com/) offers very high quality digital audio/music. They "broadcast" mp3 files individually, not actually as a stream. I've no idea how you would get it to your TiVo...they sell their own hardware to do that. If you figure it out...let us know!

You can download the songs (with a little work/babysitting) using a free software program called Orbit (http://www.orbitdownloader.com/). Once downloaded you can rename the file with the name/artist and save them as .mp3 files that TiVo will recognize. It's a bit of a PIA, but it works if you have the time and nothing else to do.

[dbeck316]

Thanks Rich.

If anyone else has any ideas let me know.

Out of Curiosity:
If I was able to pull this off, would the quality over Ethernet be any different than simply connecting a Y-wire from the headphone jack of a laptop to the aux ports of my receiver?

[carroca]

Here's the thread that explains the streaming from Winamp:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=132883

You basically setup a Winamp plugin called SHOUTcast that is an mp3 stream server. You set it up to stream any sound going through your sound card (whatever you hear through your computer speakers will be streamed) and then create a playlist file pointing to the server which you can then play from the TiVo. I've used it and it works great. The only catch is that you can't control the audio source from the TiVo (ie. skip tracks, pause, etc). You have to do all of that at the computer but for just passively listening to music it's fine.