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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: KennyR on April 06, 2003, 01:13:52 AM
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AmiNetRadio (ANR for short) plays Shoutcast streams. These are streamed mp3 data from various radio stations: go to shoutcast.com (http://www.shoutcast.com) to find out more. Shoutcast offers literally thousands of radio stations catering to every musical taste, all in delicious mp3.
For years, we felt there was a huge need for ANR. The Amiga already had some players that could play Shoutcast streams, but had the tendency to hang and crash a lot, or not work at all, and were really bad at playing faster streams... and you still had to surf the website for URLs. So we made our own player.
That player is ANR - AmiNetRadio. And we think it rocks!
And now, ANR also plays disk-based mp3 streams! Replace your dull, crash-prone mp3 player with ANR today.
It features:
- Load and playing of shoutcast streams with no locking, hanging or crashing!
- An attractive, powerful and fully skinnable GUI with lots of nice effects!
- Powerful and flexible shoutcast search tool. No need to waste time browsing!
- Optional streaming mp3 to disk - save those favourite streams for later!
- Attractive external and in-built scopes!
- The ability to use AMPlifier, AmigaAMP and HippoPlayer scopes!
- OpenURL support - visit the shoutcast stream's radio website in a click!
- Paste URLs as IP addresses or DNS names.
- Plays mp3 files from disk as well as internet streams
- Fast and efficient - no 2MB exes or waiting ages for it to load!
- It works on an Amiga! No x86 system needed!
- System friendly and usable on MorphOS, probably also OS4 and emulators!
AmiNetRadio's website is at aminetradio.amigazeux.net (http://aminetradio.amigazeux.net). Try it. You'll never go back.
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Really good news! Nice to see a new MP3 player for the Amiga, especially one that supports shoutcast streams!! Shoutcast is very important IMO.
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Hoya!
All you bubbles and bobbles, get ANR because it rules!!!! It has been created by AmigaZeux, the team which brought ya AmiTradeCenter and dynAMIte!!!!!
Juste a note though. IT DOES NOT USE HIPPOPLAYER SCOPES!!!! It is a mistake in the doc, sorry about this ;-P
Be funky!
M A D
PS: @redrumloa
Why did you depict Jacques Chirac with a blue hand??? :-?
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First impressions are this is a great little player.
I have managed to have it crash on me,but i don't know if that's my system.
AmigaAmp falls over quite regular,if i do too much other stuff.
060/233 Grex/Voodoo
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GREAT Program!! :))
Works wunderfull here on my MOS setup!!
Can we expect more good quality programs
from #AmigaZeux??
Felix@attention-software.com
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Looks like a really nice program! Too bad it has no support for the MP3 hardware decoders like on melody, delphina or mas-player. Support would be easy. But until then, I'm stuck to piping the Streamer output through a tiny MelodyPlay command tool.
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Good news!
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Good news!
If I had a wish... Is there any solution for a shoutcast server for Amiga? I would even be happy I could stream simpler formats than MP3...
regards selco, http://selco.da.ru
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Yes yes!!
First impressions are good here. Amplifier done the job well but with this connecting & searchin Shoutcast for stations saves loads of time.
Love the bluring GUI, a touch of class there which makes a change from the usual "grey" GUIs we see.
Finally, I know its early days but, when we see the new AmiDock it would be nice to see an AmiNetRadio Docky so that it could sit in the AmiDock bar (Just to keep our screens tidy really ;-))
Anyway, as I said, very nice, I'll be following this one closely :-)
Roll on Koollive!
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Too bad it has no support for the MP3 hardware decoders like on melody, delphina or mas-player. Support would be easy.
Not as easy as you think. None of the #AmigaZeux team have such hardware to test. Sorry, we did look into it but it didn't prove to be possible at the moment. Maybe in future versions.
I'm of the opinion that someone should compile an "emulated" mpega.library that remaps CPU decoding routines to mpeg decoder hardware or its software (ie. MHI). (Edit: in other words, a wrapper). That way support wouldn't needed to be added piecemeal to every mpeg app, but would run with 100% compatibility on everything that uses mpega.lib.
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platon42`s avatar RuLeZ! hehe
Can I set the buffer in this program so I don`t have interruptions when I receive?
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Shame that there is no WOS version.
My BlizzPPC/040@25 is not enough for HQ mp3s
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Shame that there is no WOS version.
My BlizzPPC/040@25 is not enough for HQ mp3s
ANR doesn't decode mpegs itself. Get the WOS version of mpega.lib! It's been on Aminet for almost 4 years now!
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Can I set the buffer in this program so I don`t have interruptions when I receive?
If you get interruptions, try setting a bigger buffer. But you will not be able to play faster streams than your connection allows, no matter what you do. This isn't ANR's fault. Read the guide for details.
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Hoya!
@Felix
YES! #AmigaZeux is a TALENTED team of untamed Amiga thinkers! ;-)
They brought the world:
-ANR (well, we have been testing it for quite a long time now, hehe... ;-) ).
-AmiTradeCenter: an ftp client using MUI.
-dynAMIte: a BomBerman clone... BUT playable ONLINE, up to 8 (eight) players! :-D
So, stop wasting your time and go to
amigazeux.net
And be enlightened! ;-)
For some other people here: RTFM! ;-D
KennyR has done a pretty neat and humourous guide for ANR, so do him a favour and read it! ;-)
Be funky
M A D
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@M A D :
... and they brought GELBES PANEL to us.
it´s a very nice miamipanel (for miami dx), the problem is, that it´s not that stable and has got problems displaying traffic >1 Gbyte.
to anr : nice to hear ;-)
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Well, actually it's just about opening the device and instead of sending the data to a file, you simply write it to the mp3 decoder (CMD_WRITE). You won't be able to use the niffy plugins though, as you don't get back the pulse coded sample data from the mp3 decoder. Therefore, writing a wrapper to the mpega.library is IMHO not reasonable (because mpega.library is used to decode the mp3 data asynchroneously and get back the PCM data, and play this PCM data back through AHI or Paula (or do whatever you want to it). The Commodore MPEG-Device takes the raw MP3 data and plays it back synchroneously. It actually outputs the sound, so AHI and stuff is not needed.
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Great player! But only downside is that I havn't been able to set it
up in MIME to play from clicking on streams in a browser :(
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:rtfm:
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really good program, very stable but the only downside is that it eats
a lot of cpu time specially on weaker PPC Amiga's like my 040/25 603e
240 Mhz combo.
I hope it would be possible to add internal paula 14 bit support next
to ahi like was done with prayer 2 wich run's silky smooth on my
machine. With prayer 2 i can even play Q2 or a mpeg at same time at a
very decent frame rate :-D