Subsonic on the Wii...
Posted: Mar Tue 25, 2008 10:09 am
Hello all!
Quick question for those in charge of the tech-stuff.
We have a Nintendo Wii, and recently found that you can stream shoutcast stations straight to the Wii, which allows us to put stations on our home stereo system.
With Subsonic, the sound on the cd-quality stream is SUPERB, and our receiver encodes it into a fake-surround (the haunted mansion is ... wow... when played through there).
The only problem is that the Wii has a small internal memory... it refreshes the stream every 60 seconds or so. Due to buffering it does, streams that don't have a "connect intro" play uninterrupted. But with Subsonic... every time it refreshes it plays the "ladies and gentlman boys and..." spiel.
Is there a way to get a stream without that opening? even if it meant a reminder ad was thrown into the rotation? (just a quick "Your listening to Subsonic Radio")?
edit: I should point out for those interested that there is no "hacking" or "modding" of the wii involved. You simply point your wii's opera browser to "www.wiihear.com" and you can enter any shoutcast address in for streaming.
Quick question for those in charge of the tech-stuff.
We have a Nintendo Wii, and recently found that you can stream shoutcast stations straight to the Wii, which allows us to put stations on our home stereo system.
With Subsonic, the sound on the cd-quality stream is SUPERB, and our receiver encodes it into a fake-surround (the haunted mansion is ... wow... when played through there).
The only problem is that the Wii has a small internal memory... it refreshes the stream every 60 seconds or so. Due to buffering it does, streams that don't have a "connect intro" play uninterrupted. But with Subsonic... every time it refreshes it plays the "ladies and gentlman boys and..." spiel.
Is there a way to get a stream without that opening? even if it meant a reminder ad was thrown into the rotation? (just a quick "Your listening to Subsonic Radio")?
edit: I should point out for those interested that there is no "hacking" or "modding" of the wii involved. You simply point your wii's opera browser to "www.wiihear.com" and you can enter any shoutcast address in for streaming.