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[Q] where can I download movies for my tablet?

I have a android tablet and I am going on vacation soon where can I download newer movie to play on my tablet? I use to use torrents but my internet company started to send me emails about violating of terms and they may cancel my service.
I don't mind paying for the movies what are some websites that I can purchase and download from.
has to be mp4, avi, or a .3gp encoded with the MPEG-4 code format to play on my tablet

I believe Google play itself has movies and TV series, check it out.

chuckly2 said:
I believe Google play itself has movies and TV series, check it out.
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My tablet originally didn't have the android market I was able to instal it but all I get is apps and music

anthonylo803 said:
My tablet originally didn't have the android market I was able to instal it but all I get is apps and music
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You can download iTunes (if you use iPad)

OptimusLove said:
You can download iTunes (if you use iPad)
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If I download it through itunes it will play on my android tablet?

OptimusLove said:
You can download iTunes (if you use iPad)
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How dumb can you be. In his first line he says "how can I get movies on my android tablet".
anthonylo803 said:
If I download it through itunes it will play on my android tablet?
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Yes it will work, but only after conversion, which is a waste of time.
Get "Google Play Movies" on the Google Play store.
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I'm using for my acer iconia tab A500 this app http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184002 you can download some films from someserver and then adapt to your mobile or tablet.

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OptimusLove said:
You can download iTunes (if you use iPad)
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Wow......what has the world come to
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just downloaded from many web/blog dude, choose the resolution 720p, or 1080p if u tablet has support HD. just copied the file in sdcard then play with video app (mobo/mx player).

How about Netflix?
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Allanitomwesh said:
How about Netflix?
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No, netflix streams, it doesn't allow downloading.
Trewyy

Trewyy said:
No, netflix streams, it doesn't allow downloading.
Trewyy
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Oh. How about the utorrent remote app? Would that help?
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OP, this does not directly answer your question, but you may want to consider it since it has worked out for me very nicely.
I have a rooted Nook Tablet and wanted to place movies on it for my upcoming vacation (long plane trip each way). I ended up buying a popular ripping program (not sure if I'm allowed to mention product names) and ripping some of my DVD library onto my laptop. Then I transferred the movies to my tablet.
It was really nice to have something to occupy me during the 10+ hour plane ride each way. Hope this helps.

Allanitomwesh said:
Oh. How about the utorrent remote app? Would that help?
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No it wouldn't, uTorrent remote is only used to pause and start torrent downloads that are located on his computer. It basically means his computer would need to be on the entire time he was using his tablet. The tablet would also need an Internet connection to connect to his pc to access the files. Thanks for trying to help him, though.
Just use Google Play Movies now that they allow downloading on Rooted phones.
Trewyy

Okay.
Though you could always install Internet Download Manager on your PC. It's much faster than utorrent.
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Allanitomwesh said:
Okay.
Though you could always install Internet Download Manager on your PC. It's much faster than utorrent.
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Torrenting and downloading files from websites are completely different. Plus, even if he did use your program, he will still be breaking the law if he manages to find a movie in not torrent file (which they don't exist btw).
Google Play Movies.
Trewyy

Use torrent for download the movie.
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TOrrent is the best

How about YouTube Website
I used to purchase movies from YouTube and then download then to my Mac with Free YouTube Downloader software from enolsoft, but the downloaded movies are in FLV format, if you need to transfer to the Android Tablet, you may need upgrade the Free Downloader to YouTube Converter, which will enable you to both download and convert YouTube videos. Anyway, worth a try.

Trewyy said:
Torrenting and downloading files from websites are completely different. Plus, even if he did use your program, he will still be breaking the law if he manages to find a movie in not torrent file (which they don't exist btw).
Google Play Movies.
Trewyy
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Looks you'll have to figure how to circumvent the law then,or go the legal route and buy? I find IDM really fast with .zip files off file hosting sites. Not much of a movie downloader.
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Stream Music From Drop Box

Since HTC One X does not have external sd card and most of us got 25gb free drop box space, I thought this would be helpful for ppl who want to stream music from drop box.
Reason in writing in this topic: My HTC One X was my first android device and I did not knew that we could stream music from drop box, so I wanted to list all the apps which I came across in my search. I hope this helps noobs like me.
Note* - Mod's if you feel this topic is unnecessary plz delete it
1) AnTek Explorer + AnTek Drop box / Box.net client
Free App, Music player is good (with Equalizer)
Read this to known more about how to add your drop box or box account - http://anttek.com/playing-music-with-anttek-explorer/
2) Just Player
After you install Just Player you need to install Drop box music provider
Free and Good music player .
3) Dropsync
Full two-way sync. Just like Dropbox on desktop
Instant upload: new files (for example photos) are uploaded to Dropbox immediately, no need to wait for the next autosync cycle
You can buy the pro version to get more futures such as
Sync multiple folders
* Sync the whole Dropbox with a folder on your phone or tablet
* Upload files larger than 5 MB
* No ads, of course
Finally if someone did not get 25gb free drop box space they can get free 50gb box space - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18221721

I personally use subsonic to stream my whole library from home.
sassafras

sassafras_ said:
I personally use subsonic to stream my whole library from home.
sassafras
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But you cannot play while ur away from home network . And not from cloud
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abhipati said:
But you cannot play while ur away from home network . And not from cloud
From beast called HTC One X
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It may not be from a "cloud" in your sense of the word, but you can definatly stream from home if you setup your network correctly.
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ECEXCURSION said:
Unless you work some magic with your home routing..
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Teach us few of ur magic tricks plz
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Tomorrow.
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Or you could just use the 20000 free song storage from Google just saying.
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Audiogalaxy is the best thing I've found to stream my entire library from home. It's free. 6 or 7 of my friends are logged on too. If you have good quality source music, audiogalaxy will sound as great, better than anything else I've tried. It caches the next song so its ready as soon as you hit next. You can also login fom any computer by going to audiogalaxy.com and stream your library.

kleeman7 said:
Or you could just use the 20000 free song storage from Google just saying.
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Yaa kleeman, defently wé can use google music which is Great. I just wrote to make use of dropbox space.
AD8 said:
Audiogalaxy is the best thing I've found to stream my entire library from home. It's free. 6 or 7 of my friends are logged on too. If you have good quality source music, audiogalaxy will sound as great, better than anything else I've tried. It caches the next song so its ready as soon as you hit next. You can also login fom any computer by going to audiogalaxy.com and stream your library.
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Thanks will try audiogalaxy
From beast called HTC One X

While I have found streaming music from dropbox to be very convenient, a major downside for me is the fact that it consumes a lot of your allotted data. Especially if you have a bunch of 320 kbps songs like I do. Memory really is this phones only major drawback, however I just tend to keep my library updated and it hasn't bothered me too much. 16 GB is still a lot of music.
I prefer storing pictures and videos on cloud since I view them much less frequently than I listen to music, so when I do need to access the pictures or videos I use a lot less data. Just my 2 cents
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kleeman7 said:
Or you could just use the 20000 free song storage from Google just saying.
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But that's only if your music is .mp3 or .flac (and you're willing to just listen to mp3 on the go). If you have a whole bunch of music from iTunes, Google Music is a terrible idea since it transcodes .m4a to .mp3. Amazon is a good idea too right now, but it does cost $25/year but it will just match a whole bunch of music rather than doing uploads.

ECEXCURSION said:
It may not be from a "cloud" in your sense of the word, but you can definatly stream from home if you setup your network correctly.
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Exactly. Just have to have an always on computer (like my cheap server I built with second hand parts that cost me <100$) and an always on internet connection.
Setup is even easy with subsonic because you get a yourname.subsonic.org address so you don't have to remember your own IP address.
sassafras

Yeah, its definatly a neat little program. I'll play around with it later this week.
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elomire said:
But that's only if your music is .mp3 or .flac (and you're willing to just listen to mp3 on the go). If you have a whole bunch of music from iTunes, Google Music is a terrible idea since it transcodes .m4a to .mp3. Amazon is a good idea too right now, but it does cost $25/year but it will just match a whole bunch of music rather than doing uploads.
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Does Amazon really match files? It sure took a really really long time to upload my library if it was matching.
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Yes Amazon now matches files like iTunes, however they only announced the service very recently (ie yesterday or the day before).
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Oh awesome, thanks for the clarification!
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While we're on the subject, does anyone know of a good video player that can also list /stream videos from dropbox? For example, I use mx player and I can add folders to include. Now that storage is at a premium, im having to move most of my videos /movies up to dropbox. It's been real inconvenient trying to browse / play them now.
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As of about a month ago the dropbox app itself will do video streaming
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Spooky_7 said:
As of about a month ago the dropbox app itself will do video streaming
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Whoa haven't tried that yet thanks
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subsonic is incredible. If you aren't using it, you're missing out. I have nearly 8TB of lossless music I've collected over the years and I stream from all over the world. And myself and ~10 colleagues at the office stream all day. It's an easy setup and it just works....and the caching support on the android app is pure gravy.

cooleslt apps you've discovered on this forum that aren't too popular

i've found a few...share them people
sendit- using google drive send a file to any phone/os in an sms
tasker- do it all through voice

Also give link with the app names
Thanks
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OStream:Speed up your facebook.. Its awesome still in beta phase bt i love it!!
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touchretouch- edit photos after taken
pro hdr camera-excellent hdr camera
quick pic- excellent picture, thumnail, precaching of photos and videos. Excellent internal player too
photaf- 360 panoramic
powernzb-nzb downloader
bbc arabic

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People, I think the point of this was to post "Non- Play Store" apps, as in ones only found on forums on XDA.
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I think that the name and target of the thread is not clear enough.
It mentioned specifically "aren't too popular". So... wtf is 'What's up' doing with that?! And most of the rest.
Please only put apps that you found, use and not seen in the first pages on the forum. Do not make this a list with your apps... please!

okty2k said:
I think that the name and target of the thread is not clear enough.
It mentioned specifically "aren't too popular". So... wtf is 'What's up' doing with that?! And most of the rest.
Please only put apps that you found, use and not seen in the first pages on the forum. Do not make this a list with your apps... please!
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People, I think the point of this was to post "Non- Play Store" apps, as in ones only found on forums on XDA.
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The OP listed tasker as an app. Its on the play store. People can post whatever cool apps they use. If you don't like it, start your own thread.
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Streamlne said:
The OP listed tasker as an app. Its on the play store. People can post whatever cool apps they use. If you don't like it, start your own thread.
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This. And I mean seriously, how long until these apps hit market? It's the most available platform. A cool app is a cool app on xda or store

But we already have tons of "what's your favorite app" threads. It would be interesting to discover new sous that aren't already on the okay store. But it's whatever. Do as you please everyone.
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"coolest apps you've discovered on this forum that aren't too popular"
Maluuba
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maluuba.android&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tYWx1dWJhLmFuZHJvaWQiXQ..

ES file explorer: Holo Theme
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32439406
And dSploit, but that one is pretty popular, i guess
Greetz
// j_dee
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New rule you have to put a short description for each app you mention
Aptoide uploader is really nifty. You make yout own private app store for your friends. I liked it over a competitor appsfire.
Appsaffinity- goof apps discovery app
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Xperia Launcher + Widgets, modded to work on all devices...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34823516
YouTube with screen-off playback and HD via 3G
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23243273
Greet
// j_dee
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Nice j dee! I hate it when my youtube shuts off in the gym. Can't leave the screen on and put it back in my pocket
Come on peeps keep em coming. I like the list so far. It's small and precise not large and burgeoning. Let's go over something very relevant: STREAMING from your HD
Jbeans 4.2 Camera- Full Screen Camera (compared to 4.1.2) and gallery you could flash for your 4.1.2 phone
Mediahouse Player- An organized app that collects all the shared music videos off of shared directories on your computer use in conjunction with. Allows you to favorite directories/devices. Really neat app
mx player- easy ui can easily disable/enable hardware software encoding for audio and video during play
v player- like mxplayer, could be better with UI, but unlike MX player allows you to set buffer to a whopping 8mb...so longer initial load for video but plays back perfectly otherwise
ES file explorer- save network drives
I usually make the default player for ES v player and for media house mx player. Good setup. Mx Player allows you to manage defaults for video players in-app too. Another neat feature. Well worth the money for that app.
From the computer end there are a lot of options to stream (I made a post about this a while back...search on me) but I like PS3 Media server 1.70.1 for my PS3. It allows for real-time transcoding for devices where your video format (ie mkv) isn't available. I also install TVersity server on my computer end and both servers as well as the raw files allow me to wirelessly stream every tv show except for planet earth which has a ridiculous bitrate.
Only other thing to worry about on the computer end is to make sure your sharing settings etc are set up as openly as possible. I have a homegroup password and everyone in it is allowed to at least read my directories

Hey zetsui,
sure, I love my HOX and GNEX phones (by now even more than my PC) and why not participate in sharing cool underdog apps?
Is that Mediahouse player the one you can download from the Play Store? Sounds pretty usable to me
Greet
// j_dee
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Yes you can dl it from playstore it is thr upnp dlna browser.
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Mi sound recorder
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28295194
Way better than stock audio recorder. Can record as mp3 at 128kbit/s, good enough for me. Of course, you can increase it. Can record as ogg too.
Solid explorer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplorer
Might be popular, but worth a mention anyway. Fast, free, full of useful features, no ads... Did I mention the slick ui?
Cpu adjuster
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryosoftware.cputweaks
Like setcpu, but free. You can have 3 profiles in the free version. Ought to be good enough for beginners.
Also worth checking out: servers ultimate.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapps.serversultimate
These apps are in xda too, but play store linking is more convenient.

Advanced Touchpad Remote Control
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arcoid.advancedtouchpad&hl=en
Turns the phone's screen into a multitouch touchpad.
Perfect for Laptops with short HDMI cables.

[Mirror][app] TinyShark 3.1.5 (Groveshark client)

Update: I hadn't realized the original developer still has this on their website. I searched Google before but didn't find any place to download, that's why I posted the mirror. But later on I stumbled upon it. The developer's site is http://exigocs.com you can also download TinyShark Downloader from there.
It's no longer available on Play Store, but I downloaded it shortly after I got Android. I then discovered soon after it was removed from Play Store, so it has since lived on my sdcard with TitaniumBackup, since I did a lot of ROM flashing.
Despite not being updated for over a year, it works great on Jelly Bean , and is still is one of the best Grooveshark apps for android I've ever tried, with playlists, offline cache option, and more.
With offline cache, you can effectively use this as a mobile Grooveshark downloader. It dumps the songs into sdcard/tinyshark_songs/ where they have id3 tags, but are just named a bunch of numbers. You could cache them 1 at a time, then go there and rename the file to whatever you want, or you could just copy to your PC and use software to use id3 to name the files.
Here is the original description:
Listen to Grooveshark on your Android device for FREE.
- Search the Grooveshark database
- Import Grooveshark playlists
- Play individual songs or an entire playlist
- Cache songs for offline playback
Does NOT require Adobe Flash to play music (Settings -> Use Flash Player). TinyShark now does not need Flash for music playback, but it is still an option for those that find it works better.
Starting with version 3.0 a lot has changed under the hood. A lot of fixes are being made so check for updates often. If you are having problems try reinstalling and create a new shortcut in your launcher. If you are still having issues please email details and send any crash reports you can.
Thanks to everyone that's been emailing!
To download songs try Tinyshark Downloader also available in the market.
Taken from:
http://www.bestappsmarket.com/p/app?appId=8894&title=tinyshark
It really works much better with "Use Flash Player" unchecked. [You have to do that to enable Offline Cache]
The app id is com.exigo.tiny
Download:
com.exigo.tiny.apk http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?o2bief5dgb9gel9
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thanks for sharing! I recently used the groove mobile but it wasn't good at all.

Downloads as a zip but the post suggests an APK. Shall i just flash it?
Edit: my bad downloaded via phone but showed as zip. Working fine via PC.
Thanks for sharing!

Not connecting
I am experiencing some problems during the last month with this amazing app. It doesn't connect, when i try to connect i can see the 'connecting...' with the yellow light, but in a few seconds becomes again 'Disconnected' with the red light. Is it just me or this app is not working now?

I am having the same issue as well.

Try using tinytunes app from play store.
It's from the same developer but not related to grooveshark
It's pretty good.
As I am a new user I am not able to paste the link.
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dood's music player is way better and.it is also a GrooveShark Client
Pound dat Thanks button
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tinyShark 3.1.7
I tried Dood's music and it has a very bad performance (for me),
Searching in google i found the last version of Tinyshark (3.1.7), now it connects, but it doesnt play any song
SOLVED: Settings > Playback Controller > HTML5 instead of FLASH

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I tried Dood's music and it has a very bad performance (for me),
Searching in google i found the last version of Tinyshark (3.1.7), now it connects, but it doesnt play any song
SOLVED: Settings > Playback Controller > HTML5 instead of FLASH
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Tinyshark needs a widget and this has to be useable and offline caching needs some work
Pound dat Thanks button
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If you guys are having issues with 3.1.5 you need to first uninstall 3.1.5 and then update to 3.1.7 found on their website http://exigocs.com/. If you still have problems download and install tiny shark downloader.
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I would consider this app *warez* for the fact it is used to steal music off a site that is know for being borderline legal anyways. There is a reason Google removed it from Play.
Just sayin.
Also, buy the music you like. Support your artists
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slimdizzy said:
I would consider this app *warez* for the fact it is used to steal music off a site that is know for being borderline legal anyways. There is a reason Google removed it from Play.
Just sayin.
Also, buy the music you like. Support your artists
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Sadly, by buying music you're supporting the music industry (RIAA). By going to concerts you're supporting the artists.

khaytsus said:
Sadly, by buying music you're supporting the music industry (RIAA). By going to concerts you're supporting the artists.
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Not the artists I listen to. I buy direct from them or their independent label.
If your music is controlled by the RIAA then you need to stop listening to USA Top 40 and go out and find real music.
Either way is better then supporting this app.
But back to why I brought this up, if XDA allows this app then why not all the other MP3 downloaders in the play Store?
Mod maybe answer?
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How to setup squid Proxy for tinyshark for streaming?
Somehow my T-Mobile connection seems to be blocking the tinyshark connection. Whenever I use the T-Mo data connection, my tinyshark would immediately show disconnected.
I managed to setup a squid server so that it now shows "connected" ( squid log says TCP_HIT/200 1495 GET http://grooveshark.com/crossdomain.xml - NONE/- text/xml )
But the songs are not streaming...
Anyone has experience setting up squid for tinyshark that could share some insight?
Thanks!

TinyTunes- Free music streaming app
TinyTunes music streaming app gives access to thousands of latest music tracks for free. Users can stream music and download them from any Android or iOS device. Download TinyTunes app at tinytunesapps

Play to remote device (Bravia in my case)

Hi, I'm using Galaxy R with CM10
I have this Sony Bravia Internet TV.
Some of you guys must be familiar with Windows 7 & 8's 'Play to' functionality.
U can right click on any media and select play to-> Bravia(Both connected to same wifi)
This feature is also there in S3's stock music and video players.
So I can hit play to from my PC or an S3 and it directly starts playing on my TV.
I need this feature on My SGR running CM10.
The SGS3 ported music player doesn't work on CM10
So I'm basically looking for an S3 music player port for CM10 or any 3rd party player that can give me this functionality!
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bianor.ams
This should be what you need.. Able to stream to many TVs
From my CM10 powered galaxy R

I already have iMediaShare but it wasn't good enough.
It just shows the media library on tv and I still have to browse through it and play using the tv remote.
PlayTo universal:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dayglows.vivid.full
This app is somewhat better. Needs no tv remote interaction for playing/pausing. I'll keep digging for a more intuitive app though.
Thx a lot
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Really?? That's strange coz I never needed the TV remote to seek play or pause videos... Anyways it always better to find new and better apps
From my CM10 powered galaxy R

That's really nice man.
I've heard iMediaShare is supposed to do that but it doesn't work so good for me.
Maybe it's something to do with the TV.
I flashed ICS again to see if I could find something and AllShare does this job really well!!
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Sony has it's own app search media remote on play store
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