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New mp3/shoutcast player for Amiga/MOS - AmiNetRadio!
« on: April 06, 2003, 01:13:52 AM »
AmiNetRadio (ANR for short) plays Shoutcast streams. These are streamed mp3 data from various radio stations: go to 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. Try it. You'll never go back.
 

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Re: New mp3/shoutcast player for Amiga/MOS - AmiNetRadio!
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2003, 03:32:13 PM »
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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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Re: New mp3/shoutcast player for Amiga/MOS - AmiNetRadio!
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2003, 12:06:05 AM »
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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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Re: New mp3/shoutcast player for Amiga/MOS - AmiNetRadio!
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2003, 12:09:19 AM »
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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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Re: New mp3/shoutcast player for Amiga/MOS - AmiNetRadio!
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2003, 10:03:09 AM »
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