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Hi, my name is Teemu Harju. I'm a 27-year-old engineer from Espoo, Finland and this is site is my contribution to the world wide web. I'll write here about all kinds of stuff that interests me. Python coding is my passion. I'm also interested in different kinds of web technologies.

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Stream your mp3 files with Nokia 770

Since the storage capacity on Nokia 770 is rather limited, I thought that it would be nice to stream the mp3s I have on my Linux server over WLAN. After little Googling I found ajax/PHP based application called mp3act. I installed it on my server and it worked fine with Mozilla Firefox on my laptop. I created playlists from the songs on my server and succesfully streamed them using Windows Mediaplayer. Then I tried it with my 770 and disappointment was rather big when I noticed that it doesn’t work. It appears that the ajax support on the N770’s Opera browser isn’t fully working. Well I didn’t want that to prevent me from streaming my mp3s. I found a workaround for the problem and I’m streaming music while typing this. Read the rest of this post if you are interested in how this can be done.

  1. Download and install mp3act. See the requirements first.
  2. Using your computer’s browser log into the mp3act. (mp3act doesn’t work on 770’s browser).
  3. Add your favourite albums using mp3act’s admin panel. Remember that for this to work the web server needs to have read access to the mp3 files.
  4. Create a playlist from the files you want to listen on your N770.
  5. Press “play” to play the list, but instead of opening the playlist, save it to your computer and copy/move the file to your 770.
  6. Open the file on 770 with the audio player and enjoy the music.

Lets hope that the ajax support will be improved in the future updates so that mp3act could be fully used. Then I could really have all my mp3s everywhere I go.

This entry was posted 2 years, 11 months ago on Sunday, December 11th, 2005 at 10:37 pm and is filed under Nokia Tablets. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Stream your mp3 files with Nokia 770”

  1. René Seindal Says:
    December 12th, 2005 at 4:06 am

    Hi, have a look here: http://linux.seindal.dk/item89.html
    There’s another solution that works, with a bit of tweaking.

    Rene’

  2. Teemu Says:
    December 12th, 2005 at 12:28 pm

    Thanks for the hint René. I visited your site and really like it. Gotta start visiting there regularly.

    Btw… at work I tested the mp3act with iTunes and it even shows the album covers if you have those saved in the mp3 file. This is way too cool. :) I didn’t know that it works also for streaming. We need iTunes for Nokia 770 as well. Also nice about mp3act is that you can set it to downgrade the bitrate of your mp3s on a fly if the network you are on isn’t fast enough. Also if you set Amazon API key in the settings it will download album covers from there. Nice…

  3. Teemu Says:
    December 13th, 2005 at 12:31 am

    I just noted that the playlist on 770 doesn’t play the songs unless you have first logged in the mp3act using the 770’s browser. After that everything works fine.

  4. Teemu’s Blog » Blog Archive » Streaming MP3s with Nokia 770 Part 2 Says:
    December 22nd, 2005 at 1:11 pm

    […] Ok… since the last time, I’ve done more testing on how I can stream my MP3 collection at home using Nokia 770. So far I have found two additional methods. A good and easy way is to use iTunes and Rhythmbox port for Nokia 770 to stream the MP3 collection that you have in your iTunes library. This is easy to do and doesn’t require anything but installing iTunes on your PC and Rhythmbox on your Nokia 770. Then just enable music sharing from iTunes properties and launch Rhythmbox with some special tricks. Then you are ready to go. […]

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