Subsonic on the Wii...

abenjen · Post by **abenjen** » 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.

skull · Post by **skull** » Mar Tue 25, 2008 10:38 am

I have a modified Xbox, and I quite often listen to the stream through it, on my surround sound as well! it's pretty sweet!

I don't know about your wii... but on the XBOX mod I have, it allows me to change the buffer... I set it to about 4MB, and have never had it stop to re-buffer...

If you try a smaller stream, it might buffer less... but I don't know

abenjen · Post by **abenjen** » Mar Tue 25, 2008 10:48 am

Yeah, the problem is the memory available to the browser. Its a 512mb flash, so the streaming music just doesn't have the room, due to for some strange reason it can't delete the parts that have already played. So it has to do a physical memory dump ever 60 seconds, 120 on the lower quality streams.

skull · Post by **skull** » Mar Tue 25, 2008 11:08 am

ahh.. that's too bad...

Post by **horizons1** » Mar Wed 26, 2008 7:27 pm

Perhaps you could try a lower bandwidth connection (the lower stream?) Also, not sure if your Wii is transcoding the stream or not but you could try listening via a media server like Tversity. I use Tversity to stream to my DSM-320 media player and it plays without interruption. There is a setting in Tversity to "always" transcode.

abenjen · Post by **abenjen** » Mar Wed 26, 2008 8:11 pm

Lower bandwidth doesn't work due to it's still a memory issue. It gives me an extra minute or so, but when the memory dump is performed it interrupts the song for the Subsonic intro.

But I am trying TVersity, I will post an update tommorrow after I get it ready. I attempted the quick and dirty install and setup tonight, the wii wouldn't recognize the local server, so it will take a bit of a messing with. Thank you for the suggestion!