Listening to satellite radio
 

Does anyone know of a way to use the 770 to listen to sirius satellite radio over the internet? The opera browser kind of chokes on the sirius website, but when I try to hit "listen" to access a feed, I get an error message from the website indicating that the opera browser is not supported. I sure wish someone would make an application (or modify the radio application) to permit satellite radio subscribers to access feeds from sirius. This would be great. Thanks.

It's not "sattelite radio" if you're connecting from the internet, now is it?
then it's just "internet radio"

try shoutcast or something

Unfortunately, this will probably never work. If Sirius uses Windows Media, like XM Radio does for their online streaming, that is the reason. Unless you are on a Windows computer, you're always gonna run into incompatibilities.

That is one of the advantages of a Windows Mobile device - they can stream all of the online stuff, and even the Slingbox works now. I bought a Sprint PPC6700 mainly to use just for media streaming and Slingbox viewing...I don't even use it as a phone, my Treo works much better for that.

Luckily there are plenty of online radio streams to choose from, and many of them are higher quality bitrates than what Sirius or XM (64kbps max) offers...

I am trying to get proprietary sirius content. Oh well - thanks.

I wasn't totally correct earlier...there are some ways that you can listen to Windows Media streams on a 770, or even a Palm device...it involves "broadcasting" your own Shoutcast audio stream, which the 770 can handle. I have done this, and it works great, just takes a few steps to get it configured, plus you have to leave a computer running to do it...

Basically, you stream the Sirius channels to your computer, then broadcast that audio so your 770 can access it through your computer. Do you use a Mac or a PC? I know exactly how to do it on the Mac, and I can tell you which programs you need...on a PC, I'm sure the utilities are out there, i just don't know what they are...

Yes, now you understand...
 

This is painfully gratifying to me. This is the way Mac owners have lived for, well, since 1984. Although I would never intend to compare it to the existence many minorities live in, I feel that in some way I have been exposed to the same sort of mentality. Mac owners always have to accommodate Windoze (file transfer, networking, etc.), we always have to wait for the port, and, insult of insults, when a great Mac original app gets ported to the PC (Eudora, Adobe anything, LabView, etc.) the Mac gets left behind.

Let's all hail capitalism and contributing to Bill Gates' estate.

Soryy, couldn't help myself...welcome to my world 770 owners.

Thanks very much for figuring out how I can accomplish what I desire (listening to sirius on the 770), but as a total novice computer user and a windows person, I would not be able to deal with the brain damage involved I am sure. The 770 is really great, but it is still a bit tough on us totally lay-users. Thanks again.

Sirius does not use windows media player or any windows components for streaming. How am I able to confirm this? I'm using firefox right now under Mandriva linux to stream sirius to my PC.

It has to be a browser issue.

hmm...i wonder what kind of stream it is...can you tell, frenchie?

I honestly don't know. It appears to be a flash heavy application.

For what it's worth, I have a widget for the Yahoo Widget Engine that is able to log into sirius without a browser and stream the music directly to my desktop.

i guess it would take a little fooling around and some programming to get this to work. It might be a simple MP3 stream, but then again it's not that easy.

I'll look into it. You can also get a 3 day trial if you want to mess around with it.

Ok I have good and bad news. Bad news first - The Sirius stream is in fact WMA.

Good news - In the 2006 update Nokia added support for the WMA codec which means we will be able to stream sirius :-)

Now if only they could get OGG support out of the box :mad:

How can I stream it? I cannot access the sirius website with the 770. I get an error.

I honestly don't know why it doesn't work. Someone may need to create a program like SiruCE (PPC). Shouldn't be too difficult.

I would pay money for SiruCE for the 770!!

I just tried logging on to my XM Online thru minixm.com, which is a third-party site that works great with Windows Mobile devices. The website loaded and I could logon to my account, but once it started to stream, the 770 popped up a dialog box asking if I wanted to "Save" the file, because there were no programs to open it. Sirius is probably the same way...

I think the reason it doesn't work is because it's an .ASX file...if I'm not mistaken, those are a different type of Windows Streaming Media than .WMA or .WMV

I was really hoping it would work, maybe it still will in the future...

...the 7770 becomes something special.
 

Well yeah, your 770 becomes a satellite radio, sorta.

How about Pandora?
 

Has anyone tried using the 770 to listen to music with Pandora.com? I've gotten addicted to pandora and it would be one more great reason to buy the 770.

(For those of you who don't know, Pandora is a website where you can put in the name of an artist or song and it will create a customized "radio station" that streams music that has similar musical characteristics to the artist you inputted)

I'm thinking I probably won't pick up a 770 until the christmas season...can't justify the expense to myself just yet. But then...perfect time for a new toy! :)

Pandora.com looks real cool. Too bad it runs on Flash 8. Won't work on the 770, it stops halfway through loading.