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September 05, 2006 Internet Radio in the Park Posted by Oren at 11:13 AM | Categories: Application development, Applications, Music

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Nokia is helping to bring free WiFi networks to 10 major parks in New York City, starting with Central Park and Battery Park. If you have an N80 or N91 phone, you can download a free software suite that will let you enjoy news and music when you're sitting in the park (or anywhere else with a WiFi connection).

The suite includes the ParkCast Internet radio player, which, we are proud to say, is based on the open source Internet Radio for S60 software we created in the S60 Multimedia team. The Park WiFi team also created a version of ParkCast for the Nokia 770 Internet tablet.

The ParkCast player is pre-configured with links to high-quality streams from four New York radio stations, which I was able to listen to from my WiFi network in Boston. Of course, it wasn't quite the same without the benches and trees.


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Why do they restrict this stuff to just a few phones? I'm sure that this would work fine on all of the new S60v3 phones, and yet they insiste on

if (phone != N80) {
exit(-1);
}

bah!

Posted by: jay_cee | September 5, 2006 06:12 PM

That's not exactly right. The radio application connects to high-quality (128kb) streams, and so really needs a WLAN connection in order to work correctly. The N80 and N91 both have WLAN; the apps should also work on other S60 3rd Edition devices with WLAN capability.

Posted by: Oren Levine | September 5, 2006 10:01 PM

I have an E61 and I am happy to report that the Park Suite works perfectly fine on my phone.

Posted by: Arthur | September 5, 2006 10:50 PM

Great work. I think you have showed a valuable example about new ways to deliver cool apps quickly to the users.

Posted by: Tommi Vilkamo | September 6, 2006 02:18 AM

I can confirm these also work on E70, and from my home WLAN and broadband access in Finland.

It's great to get New York Times news to this mobile enterprise computer for free.

Posted by: Tero Lehto | September 6, 2006 01:34 PM

What sort of new features would you like to see in the ParkCast and ParkSuite next? On radio things like new pre-configured stations, user added stations, even better link robustness, playlists support, etc. are in plans but is there some other cool features people would really like to see implemented?

Posted by: Ato | September 10, 2006 12:54 AM

How to open direct link to streaming audio with Real Player (Nokia 3250)?

Posted by: bodya | December 7, 2006 08:33 AM

@bodya: With Real Player, you can listen to RTSP audio and video streams (rtsp:// or *.rm links). You need to add the links yourself, or find them on a Web page using the Browser.

For example, YLE (FInnish broadcaster) has a mobile news service with audio and video streams that you can listen to using Real Player. Some of these are not in Finnish(!)

Posted by: Oren Levine | December 14, 2006 08:41 AM

MOSH has proved itself, I had no idea about this working on non-WLAN handsets like the N73 until I did a search for radio.

Only a year late, but it still works! It's interesting that it's based on S60 Internet Radio. I just wish someone would make this available with any shoutcast stream as it does what any good radio player should do: plays in the background and has support for the hardware volume keys!

Posted by: Anthony C | October 31, 2007 01:29 PM


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