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[Q] Streaming music over wireless onto your desire?

I would like to know if there is any app that can stream music over wireless to my Desire.
I have my Pc in one room and a stereo with a line-in in the living room. So now I would like to be able to get the Mp3s from my PC to my desire so that I can hear it in the living room. Ideally I would like all sounds transferred, Mp3 player, youtube and the beep for incoming messages etc. but I would already be happy if its just the output of the mp3 player (i use winamp).
If I had to I would even install some other mp3 player on my Pc.
Sorry if this was asked before. I searched and did not quite find the answer.

If you have your music folder shared on your LAN, then EStrongs File Explorer is able to stream and play music on your phone.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.estrongs.android.pop
When the application is running, you can see a butten (typically) named "Local" in the top right corner. Press it and select "LAN". Then press menu --> New --> Server to add your music server to the phone. You can the explore the newly added server and stream music directly to your phone.
Of course, EStrongs File Explorer can much more than the above. It is a file explorer first of all. But a good one none the less

Ok, first off: good call on the File Explorer, that is pretty sweet.
Being able to get to all your shared stuff from your phone, top
Just one more question, when it comes to music, i navigate to the folder, click on the song and it plais, but only just that one song. Is there a way to use a number of files or a folder?
or can I make my standard music player on my Desire access a folder somehow?

EStrongs File Explorer is, to my knowledge, only capable of playing one song at the time. If you need playlist support, playing of folder etc., then you will need another program.
The application named EyeconTroller may be a possibility. I, however, have only used it together with a DLNA server (Windowns Media Player, Mezzmo etc) running on the computer where the music files are located. I am not sure if EyeconTroller can access shared folders on the LAN (folders not shared by DLNA).
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.eyecon.cloud

why not mount the music folder using cifs manager? it will give you transparent file streaming. i've used it to access my movie collection on my laptop.

w.0.o.t said:
why not mount the music folder using cifs manager? it will give you transparent file streaming. i've used it to access my movie collection on my laptop.
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That application requires root. Not everyone has rooted their phone.
(My phone is rooted, will try out the application)

Have you tried Subsonic (subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp )? With it you can stream music from your PC over the internet,from any web browser.It also has android app.It even can transcode FLAC to mp3.

ULJ said:
That application requires root. Not everyone has rooted their phone.
(My phone is rooted, will try out the application)
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yes i forgot to mention that. thank you.

Andromote streams music from pc via upnp

ULJ said:
That application requires root. Not everyone has rooted their phone.
(My phone is rooted, will try out the application)
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it does require a rom with Cifs too...

Look up Jinzora
It's a jukebox server you run on your computer. It's free, easy to set up and although you can access through a browser there's a client app in Market

dik23 said:
Look up Jinzora
It's a jukebox server you run on your computer. It's free, easy to set up and although you can access through a browser there's a client app in Market
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Ideally I'd like something that supports photos - it looks as if Jinzora doesn't at the moment?

Problem with Librarys on Surface Pro

So I have a Surface Pro and have my Movie and TV show library on an external HDD. I can get the files to show up in the video library by adding the folder to the library in explorer. My question is this. Is there any way to make windows 8 categorize these files or specify for each folder that one is movies and one is TV? Right now they all show up in the all section of the video library but nothing shows in the movies or TV. I'm assuming that these categories are for purchased media from the Xbox market. I have a lot of movies and TV shows that I have ripped from my collection over the years and it would be nice if I could trick windows into organizing it. I haven't been able to find anything in my searches on here or google.
Thanks for any help in advanced.

As far as windows cares you just have 2 video files. It has no way to distinguish between it being a movie or TV show. I use VLC as my media player and personally I just keep things seperated manually.
The existing movies and TV folders are probably for content purchased via windows 8 yes.

OK yea that's what I thought. I ended up downloading xbmc and just using that to organize the files. Was hoping there was a way to trick it. Oh well.
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Network Media Player

Does anyone know of an app that will play media from a network share? Ive tried Diceplayer and it doesnt seem to support mkvs... If I can find an app that will stream media off my local shares, this will finally be my "one box to rule them all" as it supports all the services Im interested in, I just want to be able to stream my local media. I DONT want to use Plex or XBMC.. I have a Plex server running and it runs great however I have a catch all folder where downloaded stuff goes before I move it into whatever directory its going to live in and thats the content I want to be able to play.
Anyone got any suggestions?

MadFlava said:
Does anyone know of an app that will play media from a network share? Ive tried Diceplayer and it doesnt seem to support mkvs... If I can find an app that will stream media off my local shares, this will finally be my "one box to rule them all" as it supports all the services Im interested in, I just want to be able to stream my local media. I DONT want to use Plex or XBMC.. I have a Plex server running and it runs great however I have a catch all folder where downloaded stuff goes before I move it into whatever directory its going to live in and thats the content I want to be able to play.
Anyone got any suggestions?
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Try archos media player. I haven't tried it yet but it supports SMB. If you come across anything better, let me know

Well, its not an all in one solution, but...
Install VLC for Android and ES file explorer.
In ES file explorer when you try and open an MKV it will ask what app you want to use. tell it VLC and you are in.
The bad news is that the beta of VLC does not appear to support any controls on the Fire remote. It will take
"mouse" command from the cheap MCE remote that people are using as an InfraRed receiver.
Is there a reason XBMC is out? It can be setup to just show your movies and shows without doing any scraping or anything other then just letting you get to your network shares and play it.

I haven't had the greatest luck with XBMC. Ive set it up on numerous devices and its probably that I just end up getting frustrated with it. I ran it naively back in my original Xbox but now I just cant seem to get a handle on seeing it up to my liking. Plex has been great but I don't think my server has enough Wheaties to handle maybe more than 2 streams which is why I've been looking for something to just stream content across the network.
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You should try Vimu Player. You won't even have to sideload it is in the fire tv store.
I haven't tried it on the fire tv but I used to use it a lot on my Logitech Revue Google Tv. It doesn't have all the features of xbmc or plex but it did a great job streaming video from my NAS.

skinnydev said:
You should try Vimu Player. You won't even have to sideload it is in the fire tv store.
I haven't tried it on the fire tv but I used to use it a lot on my Logitech Revue Google Tv. It doesn't have all the features of xbmc or plex but it did a great job streaming video from my NAS.
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Ill give it a shot. I have Plex set up and it works great for me. But I have kids and they want to stream stuff too and Im concerned that my media server isnt going to have the Wheaties to stream that much stuff so the option of being able to play directly from the share is what Im after. My Plex server is an Athlon Phenom II X3 with 16GB of RAM.. really doesnt do anything but run Plex, SabNZB and PlayOn..
Thanks for the heads up!

I use MX Player and Skifta on my android devices to access my DLNA server. So you can give MX Player a try it handles mkvs perfectly fine.

Vimu looks like it has a lot of potential but sadly most of my MKV files dont have sound and I cant really find any settings to change for that. Im going to give MX Player a shot now.. I dont know if thats DLNA only but if it is, thats not what Im looking for. I just want to be able to stream without transcoding on the server side.

MX Player isn't DLNA only it can handle other network streams just fine as long as you know what they are.
DLNA is just happens to be how I push my media files around the house to my devices.

Yea.. I looked at it and couldnt find a way to browse to shares... Im using a Mede8r for playing from network shares right now.. Im so close to being able to ditch everything except the FireTV.. if I could find a good network player that just plays, I could get rid of all my other boxes. I really want the "one box to rule them all" thing......

Try using es file explorer to browse to the share and ND for playback?

Montisaquadeis said:
Try using es file explorer to browse to the share and ND for playback?
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I had issues with ES working with the Amazon remote. Are you using an external keyboard/mouse to control it?

Personally I do not have a Fire TV. Just trying to help out is all.
A keyboard and mouse should work fine. Even an air mouse should be ok as well if you want to go that route.

I'm really surprised that Qloud Media doesn't get more attention. You install it as a server on either Windows or Mac, point it at your media and that's it.
Run the client on Android, iOS or Windows devices, plug in the server PIN and you're off. Done and done.
The video is transcoded on the fly, so streaming over the internet results in a lower-quality image at times, but it's certainly watchable.
The GUI isn't fancy, but quite functional. The server end has almost no bells and whistles. You could think of it as Plex-ultra-lite, so there's no overhead processing going on. The server exists only to serve media and that's all. No indexing of your collection, no downloading cover images, etc. It just streams media from whatever source you choose and I haven't had any problems streaming anything in my collection, even .mkv files encoded with AC3 audio that the Chromecast won't touch.
I just loaded the client up to my new FTV last night and again, it works perfectly.
The only minor drawback is that the aspect ratio is a bit weird when viewed on the FTV. It's not perfectly 16:9 but more like 15:9, so the image is a bit squished in from the sides. You don't really notice it after a few minutes though.

Im surprised it's 6 months later and there is still no easy way of playin network shared files, say from a NAS device with a media server, on a Fire TV without having to sideload an app. If I'm wrong please correct me. I did try ViMu but it couldn't play any of my files (mostly MP4s) - everyone said it was unable to play. Currently I use an XBox 360 to browse/watch videos, which I have fairly organized into folders. Why is this so difficult? My Sony TV has a player but it doesn't support folders so its hundreds of videos just in alphabetical order by filename which isn't ideal- plus you can only read the first few characters of the file name without looking at a detailed view so no way to tell what specific file you're looking at if they all start with the same word.
Yes I tried XMBC but it's way overkill, I don't need or want custom artwork per file, it crashes, and it's also not something I can put in the regular fite tv menu. Also XMBC doesn't play 720p content full screen for some reason.
Has anyone had better luck?
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Well after some more trial and error I ended up using Llama to auto start XBMC in place of some other random app so I basically have XMBC on my main Fire TV screen. I also deleted all XBMC data and didn't run any file scrapers this time, and only access files via the Windows Network Share, so it is a much cleaner looking interface like I wanted. Finally the screen size issue was actually the entire Fire TV screen size which I had to enlarge in the Fire TV Display settings. Even maxed out it doesn't 100% fill the screen but it's much closer, I can live with it. Although I didn't bring it up I was also having an issue with the time display I was blaming on XMBC but was again the Fire TV itself was set to Pacific time- you'd think Amazon would have set the timezone right.
Anyway I feel it's much than it was earlier- still occasional crashes on XBMC but not too bad. Just wish I didn't was a few dollars downloading paid apps that didn't work as I thought they were supposed to.

If XBMC is crashing, consider trying SPMC (fork of XBMC). Its available in the Amazon app store (but for the Stick it must be side loaded).
I'm using it on my FTV Stick, and its been solid. No crashes or hangs.

Does anyone know why my MX Player stop playing on my one box it's saying cannot play link it's on my firestick on TV

Any NAS drive playback app

Got a nas drive hooked to my wireless, I can see and a my movies and pic onto my note 2 with skifta and allshare built in app, but this is missing on the tab pro, what you recommend to stream from my nas drive down to my tab pro 8.4

boxer29 said:
Got a nas drive hooked to my wireless, I can see and a my movies and pic onto my note 2 with skifta and allshare built in app, but this is missing on the tab pro, what you recommend to stream from my nas drive down to my tab pro 8.4
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I don't have a NAS drive, but I'm using Tonido to access files on my home computer and external hard drive via my Tab Pro 10.1 and it works great, albeit a little slow. It is also free, has a built-in media player, and claims to work with NAS. Please search in the Play Store to make sure it comes up for your 8.4 first.
You will need to install/configure it on your computer first. It is cross-platform, and has a mobile app for Android, etc. By default it will let you access your entire computer, but you can set it to just look at specific folders/drives.
Hope this helps.

boxer29 said:
Got a nas drive hooked to my wireless, I can see and a my movies and pic onto my note 2 with skifta and allshare built in app, but this is missing on the tab pro, what you recommend to stream from my nas drive down to my tab pro 8.4
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I am using ES File Explorer to browse my NAS via SAMBA, it has built in picture viewer and media player. You can set it to play video by any other media player, as I use MX Player for video.

I use Plex. It's especially handy if you want to use it outside the house as well

explorer for albums
kortik9 said:
I am using ES File Explorer to browse my NAS via SAMBA, it has built in picture viewer and media player. You can set it to play video by any other media player, as I use MX Player for video.
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I am also looking for an app that can play whole albums over Samba/ SMB NAS. EX works ok one song at a time, but I want to cue up an album. Plex and Tonido require a dedicated PC running server. I already have the files on NAS, but want to play from a directory. Suggestions please.

rogerebert said:
I am also looking for an app that can play whole albums over Samba/ SMB NAS. EX works ok one song at a time, but I want to cue up an album. Plex and Tonido require a dedicated PC running server. I already have the files on NAS, but want to play from a directory. Suggestions please.
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I believe, ES File Explorer allows you to queue folder(s)/file(s) for playback:
- long-press the folder - ES will go into the selection mode and add a checkmark to the folder;
- optional: tap other folders/files you want to queue;
- press the overflow menu button (3 vertical dots);
- choose "Play" from the menu.

[q] Network audio player?

Hello there, besides Neutron, is there any other player that supports playing folders from local network. I mean I've shared a few folders over the network with mp3 and flacs and I want to play them with an player from my Tab S. I've found only neutron who does the job. Other players they don't even have the function to play files from the local network. Any suggestions ? Thanks

Why not just use something like bubble upnp?

I will try it when I get home. Thank you!

ashyx said:
Why not just use something like bubble upnp?
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Ok, so I've installed the app but it doesn't play my mp3/flac files from an shared folder trough my network. From what I see , I have to install an Bubble upnp server on my laptop then the Bubble upnp app would acces that server and play the files.
I'm not looking for that. I just want a player that can play files in shared folders on my network, no additional servers or stuff like that. Only Neutron can do that?!?! In Android OS , I'm kinda shocked, because when I had the IPAD I've had like 3-4 apps that can do that.

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Hello there, besides Neutron, is there any other player that supports playing folders from local network. I mean I've shared a few folders over the network with mp3 and flacs and I want to play them with an player from my Tab S. I've found only neutron who does the job. Other players they don't even have the function to play files from the local network. Any suggestions ? Thanks
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Out of curiosity if you have Neutron why are you looking for something else? A while ago I ran onto this hassle and ended up buying Neutron because it can play from multiple sources (network shares, streamed URL and mSD storage) it also has superior audio compared to Power Amp. Neutron's UI needs a modern refresh but functionality is good. I have also purchased and set up Plex app including its server. It's app is beautiful but it's lack of Playlist ability and how it groups audio files makes it a video server choice rather than audio. I do not use Plex anymore as I ended up implementing my own solution.
In the end I wrote a python script that takes my m3u playlists from my desktop/server and converts them to urls listed in a rss file and make the music directory and modified m3u rss file accessible from my local lan's web server. I'll usually use Server Steam (playstore) to stream the m3u file launched through Simple RSS widget (playstore) which shows a scrollable list of m3u urls.
Sometimes to get exactly what you want you need to roll your own.
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Is the Neutron UI that is holding me down and the fact that on a open source OS like Android I don't have at lest 3 applications to choose from, I think that is what is bothering me ). Thank you all for your answers!
Until I will find something new I will stick with Neutron.

Windows has its own upnp server built in. No need to install anything. Just open media player then add whatever you want to share to the library, be that a single file or a whole folder or drive.
It will then be available on the network for any upnp or dlna device or software.

Most file managers will let you play music files. ES File Explorer has its own media player built in.

flhthemi said:
Most file managers will let you play music files. ES File Explorer has its own media player built in.
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Network player.

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Network player.
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Maybe I'm ignorant of the term "Network Player". I know if I use ES go to Network then access my NAS's music folder I can play my MP3s. I have the option when I tap one to use any of the installed apps to play it. That's not a network player?
Also Dice Player has the option to setup network access and play media...

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Maybe I'm ignorant of the term "Network Player". I know if I use ES go to Network then access my NAS's music folder I can play my MP3s. I have the option when I tap one to use any of the installed apps to play it. That's not a network player?
Also Dice Player has the option to setup network access and play media...
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No you're correct, I stand corrected. Don't really use es explorer, so wasn't aware of it.

I use ArmAmp (for local & network). It has way better UI than Neutron, and more features / customizability than ES File Explorer's player.