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[Q] Straming via Wifi

Hi,
I have a question. I have acces from my phone (legend) to my pc through ES file explorer via Wifi (shared folders on both sides). I also have approx 100gb mp3s and i don't wanna tranfsef few of them everytime i wanna listen something. here's my question. can i stream music on my hdd (pc) to my phone while they're connected with wifi ? es explorer gives my only a 50sec sample when tap "play". i should add that pc is connected to lan with cable not with wifi adapter. great thanks for help

seereek said:
Hi,
I have a question. I have acces from my phone (legend) to my pc through ES file explorer via Wifi (shared folders on both sides). I also have approx 100gb mp3s and i don't wanna tranfsef few of them everytime i wanna listen something. here's my question. can i stream music on my hdd (pc) to my phone while they're connected with wifi ? es explorer gives my only a 50sec sample when tap "play". i should add that pc is connected to lan with cable not with wifi adapter. great thanks for help
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- AudioGalaxy (free and easy)
- Subsonic (mostly free - server is becoming donation)
- CIFS Manager and whatever player you want because it'll mount as a virtual share on your SD card like ES does except it'll be accessable from any program as though it was right on your phone (only will work over wifi in most cases and you have to be using a device which has a cifs.ko module compiled specficially for it).
To start out -- id try audiogalaxy -- but its going to take a really long time to index a huge library -- FYI -- leave it overnight or something.
Edit -- without wifi whats the point? In that case Audiogalaxy works okay over mobile data out of the box -- subsonic will probably need port 80 forwarded from your router when you want to use it. They're going to consume a lot of mobile data though.
Lately I've been using CIFS Manager when on WIFI at home and Audiogalaxy for elsewhere. Cheers.

seereek said:
Hi,
I have a question. I have acces from my phone (legend) to my pc through ES file explorer via Wifi (shared folders on both sides). I also have approx 100gb mp3s and i don't wanna tranfsef few of them everytime i wanna listen something. here's my question. can i stream music on my hdd (pc) to my phone while they're connected with wifi ? es explorer gives my only a 50sec sample when tap "play". i should add that pc is connected to lan with cable not with wifi adapter. great thanks for help
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100GB of music? DAMN! lol

100Gig - I remember when my library was that small ;-)
I just wrote a review on Audiogalaxy and it's one of my review applications which is staying on my phone, so I'll also suggest trying it out. While the bitrate seems a little too low at the moment, it is just a beta and is still good enough quality for casual listening - That said, a lower bitrate is going to help keep costs down, should you wish to stream over mobile networks.
I'll agree, a large mp3 collection will take a while to fully index but a decent broadband connection will help that. It's also really easy to get started on audiogalaxy (took me under five minutes from first visit to the website, to playing my first track on the phone.)

thanks for help. i just saw today that Audiogalaxy is released, i think that'll do . Btw, i used to have about 550gb of music but sadly i had to erease my whole disk because of failure ;//

seereek said:
thanks for help. i just saw today that Audiogalaxy is released, i think that'll do . Btw, i used to have about 550gb of music but sadly i had to erease my whole disk because of failure ;//
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Bloody hell! You win! I lost around 350gig for the same reason and now have only around 290gig in raid (thankfully raid, I lost one of the disk set last year but no data for once!)
I have been hearing of some cloud like applications out there for push/pull of files to/from pc to android, so that may make another alternative, especially for offline usage. I'm thinking of implementing both because it makes far more sense to be able to access certain data remotely, rather than trying to figure out what I'll want syncing before I leave home.
Oh and if there isn't anything that quite fits the bill, perhaps it would make an excellent dev project for me.

Subsonic serves me and my terabyte of music very well (roughly half the teratyte is FLAC). The reason AudioGalaxy is not something for me is because I like to do everything folder-based, not via some database/index.
I am currently trying CifsManager too. But it appears my WiFi is pretty slow, so for streaming Subsonic's buffering/caching is much appreciated. Another advantage of Subsonic is that you can tell it exactly what and how you want stuff re-encoded. You can have it set up so that if you are on WiFi, it will automatically stream your MP3/FLAC at their own max quality. Then when you go off WiFi with your phone and want to listen over mobile data networks, it could stream it to you as 128kbps MP3 file for example (on-the-fly transcoded from for example your high-quality FLAC).

@jjwa - That's an excellent answer! Thanks for that, I think I need to take another look at Subsonic.

Sync Video/Audio From PC To Android

Ok everyone something new that I am trying to setup, something to the effect of a home media streaming server.
The server it self is a laptop intel i5 6gb ram win 7 connected to tv via HDMI, I used this to play netflix, torrents, ect and basically cut off my cable bill.
What I would like to do now is to stream the video/audio via wifi to other android devices that are connected to other tv's through out the house.
for the client side, I will be useing MK802 II android 4.0. connected via HDMI,
question to everyone is ... Has anyone else already accomplish this? and can you give any pointers. I know I can simply share files, ect but I want to sync the video signal to the other televisions so If a video is on in the living room , the same exact video is playing in the kitchen.
And being I want to do this via Android Im here at xda to pick some brains
Thank you in advance

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[Q] Is there a problem with Android and Wifi LAN Speeds?

Something strange going on with all my android devices.. i got a Nexus 4, Nexus 7 2012, Nexus 7 2013, Sensation and Desire...
All running 4.2.2 or later.. Every single one of them can only get approx 1.6-1.9 MBytes per second on my Wireless N network... Even holding the device directly above the modem.
I have 2 Windows Laptops.. One crappy Atom Netbook and another Pentium M.. Both get 7-9MBytes per second even 10-15 metres away from my router.. So it aint my router..
Whats up with Android and crappy wireless transfer rates? Really pissing me off as i want to stream 720p movies to them from a Windows share.. though it keeps stuttering..
Is their a tweak? a setting? a kernel which can get this working faster for me?
Little help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.

Actually just found out it only happens with file explorers (Solid & ES) trying to bring down files from the SMB Windows Share...
If i put on a simple FTP server on my device i can get 5-7MB/s straight away!
This is great for files transfer though still leaves my unable to stream movies...
what is wrong with the way android access SMB???

i give up.. setup a DLNA server on my PC.. installed a DLNA player. Job Done.

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i give up.. setup a DLNA server on my PC.. installed a DLNA player. Job Done.
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I hope this helped some people.

[Q] Streaming

Hi, I'm busy with a note 1 (gt 7000).
What it is. When I heard about a chromecast I thought it was a great idea but very limited on what it can do. So I decided to get a mhl lead and root the phone to use six axis controller. Now I'm happy with what it can do, but what I would like is for some one to explain how I can make my note in to a media player, so it is recognised by other phones and tablets. So I am able to go one YouTube and press the media button and have it playing on the TV or share videos or pictures straight to the "tv" Via the note.
Any advice would be good. At the minute I'm stuck on how to do it.
Thanks

Buy a USBOTG-HDMI cable converter and use it. I'm using it right now to make my class (as long as i am a teacher), my device is a Moto G. Via wireless stream, i cant help much but i know an app called Stream Media Player that you can use to make that as long as your tv is connected to the same wireless web

Otg
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Buy a USBOTG-HDMI cable converter and use it. I'm using it right now to make my class (as long as i am a teacher), my device is a Moto G. Via wireless stream, i cant help much but i know an app called Stream Media Player that you can use to make that as long as your tv is connected to the same wireless web
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Thanks for the reply.
Yeah I have a on the go cable but I'm unable to use it at the Sam time as the mhl lead. I will have a good look at that stream media player.

Stream music on my phone from my computer hard-drive through 4G...impossible ?

Hello, so I'm looking for a way to play/stream music from my computer hard drive to my Android phone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 plus) when I'm away from home, with 4G connection...
I'm using a music player app which can play music from my phone internal storage as well as my PC (windows 7) shared folders but only on LAN with WIFI, but is there a way to do so on long distance ?
Desktop sharing/Remote control (like teamviewer...) seems to do so, but I tried some and it was suffering from many audio lag/stutter, maybe data transfer problems, probably because it was dealing with video transfer at the same time (which is something I don't care at all, I just want to access my huge mp3 collection on my hard drive)
Thanks for any suggestions !

Let's hope there is a way :cyclops: