Hey guys,
I'm hooked on Jango, an online radio station. They have an app, but so far they don't have any caching features. Due to a data cap of 1 GB a month, I was wondering if there is anyway to cache the music overnight, via wifi, so I can listen to it the next day. Slacker has this feature, but it's within the app itself. I'm looking for something external.
Any ideas/workarounds?
Thanks
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As the title says, please give me your favourite apps (preferably free) that absolutely hammer your data plan!
Use AndTorrent app to download torrents.
lol, can't beat that one! Or you could start listening to some shoutcast radio or something, that'll keep the stream going forever (I always use XiaaLive Lite).
But downloading a few GB of data via torrent will do just fine
I need to keep within Vodafone's terms of service, so torrenting is out. Streaming music or tv however is most definitely allowed! What's a good shoutcast radio client?
EDIT: I will try XIAA Live out
last.fm app will do the job ;-)
I'm looking for an App that I can use that will sync all the music that is on my PC onto my EVO. I haven't been able to find anything yet. All of the ones that I have found you have to hook up your phone to your computer.
I'm looking for one that is similar to Dropbox except for music...where I can just drag and drop music and have it air sync to my Droid.
Also, what is a good music syncing app that I have to hook my phone to my computer to sync?
Thanks!!
Why do you need a syncing app? Just drag and drop your files, it's way easier than using any app.
As for OTA syncing- look into doubletwist, pretty sure I read something somewhere sometime that they were implementing OTA syncing.
I use winamp.
I've heard mSpot will do that from the market, however I haven't messed with it much, so you'll have to look for yourself.
isyncr is pretty good. Even has a wireless plugin.
I like Winamp Wifi Sync and USB Sync. OTA would take forever IMO.
Subsonic is the absolute bomb. You don't need to "sync" your music. You just play whatever you want from your collection. It can cache as much as you want to keep locally, but it's all available. You need to have a PC that's always on and always connected, but if you do, it's a great option. No cloud storage to pay for or be limited by. Just your home collection streamed directly to your phone.
I have a 100GB collection of over 16000 songs. I've stuck with my iPod classic because I never have to choose what to take with me. I'm not sure I'm going to totally give up the iPod. But the iPod was always something extra to carry around, whereas my phone is always with me. With a 32GB card, I can have a good selection of my music ready to go for offline listening, but the entire collection available as long as I've got a data connection.
The Android app could use a little more UI refinement, but it works. You can also play any music that's been cached using the app of your choice. After a 30 day trial, you do have to donate to continue using it. It's kind of a weird model...it's open source and he advertises it as "free," which it is if you just want to use it in a browser. But you have to register, or "donate" to use certain features, including the Android client. Suggested donations are 10 Euros, or around $14. You can even manually send a smaller amount.
Audiogalaxy is a similar option, though it doesn't appear to let you download songs and cache them locally, so you're out of luck when offline. I also thought Google was supposed to be creating their own similar program back when Froyo was announced, but it doesn't seem anything has come yet.
I use Mediamonkey which requires a computer connection but does do a true sync function. It is great for finding Album Art and great for insuring it gets to the sd card if that is important to you. I use the stock music player on the EVO which I find does a good job for me.
After the initial release I was able to play from my could drive via wifi without a hitch. This was on CM7 RC 2 & 3 I believe. Cellular streaming worked about 40% of the time. After a certain amount of buffering a song it would just refuse to continue buffering.
Now I can not get any songs to play from my cloud drive via wifi or cell. Sometimes the songs will buffer completely, usually in a matter of seconds, and then never play. This has been happening on CM 7, 7.0.1 and 7.0.2. I've tried wiping the app data, uninstalling and then reinstalling. Nothing has helped.
I know Amazon has been having issues with their servers lately but as of right now I can successfully play my songs through the cloud web interface on amazon.com. I'm just curious to hear of everyone else's experiment with this.
Thanks, Josh
**Update**
Today's update fixed the complete lack of functioning issue. Still having a problem with streaming from the cloud drive however. The first 15 seconds of the song buffers then my data connection goes "idle" (data icon says 3G). Once the song hits the end of the buffer it just continuously trys to load but my data connection never hops back up to "H".
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Ive seen that audiogalaxy is a good app and ive been using googlemusic with good results.
I dont want to take up all my data with music however. Are there any that do not use data? (i know that using wifi will eliminate data on google music)
Ive also read that googlemusic caches your music so that if you play it once it saves it and the data is only used one time, is this true?
Just trying to be fair to my family once we get off of VZWs unlimited data plans. any input welcome and encouraged!
Streaming requires a network connection. Unless you are streaming from your local network over wi-fi.
Either way all non-local streaming apps require data/internet.
So buying a 64GB SD card is your best bet.
Grooveshark anywhere (paid version) has caching.
I've got a JY-UQ124 = RK3188 Quad Core, 16 GB Flash, 1024*600 Screen and have a rather odd problem. When on my home wifi, Google Play Music on my head unit behaves normally and allows me to see and play music via streaming (I have All Access) or playlists that I've downloaded. When I am tethered to my phone (Nexus 6P, T-Mobile), Google Play Music only allows me to play downloaded playlists and will no longer stream music. All radio stations/playlists that aren't downloaded are grayed out. Has anyone had that (really weird) issue? I'm in the USA with Google Play Music All Access.
I'm on a Nexus 6P w/ T-Mobile as well, and I don't have any problems streaming music via tethering.
Does your unit actually have an internet connection when tethered? IE, are you able to access websites via Chrome or Google play, etc? It sounds like for whatever reason your device isn't getting a web connection when tethered.
Update: I actually experienced this problem today. Head unit connected to the internet via tether (confirmed with web browser and other apps), but Google Play Music acting like it's in "Downloaded Only" mode and only allowing playback of cached songs. Reinstalling the Google Play Music app fixed the problem.
I had a similar issue on my head unit. Despite being connected via WiFi shared from my phone I had to turn off "Stream only on Wifi" for it to work.