If you're reading this, chances are you have an Android-powered phone, an interest in Sirius XM satellite radio, and want to see an app for this platform.
I had written a piece of one - it logs you in to the service, downloads the list of channels - but as far as being able to *play* the stream... well, that didn't work. Sirius XM has chosen to use Windows Media streaming ASF which is not easily converted to a format that Android's Media Player can handle. Plus, a developer would have to implement the streaming on their own - basically write it to a file, buffer, feed it to the Media Player, and repeat. That would probably put a serious drain on the battery too.
I don't know how the iPhone app plays it... perhaps iPhone's media player can handle Sirius XM's stream as-is and it just 'works'.
How about throwing us a bone here... either come out with an Android app or at least give us a stream that works with our Media Player so we can write a client! You know, maybe like an RTSP stream or something a bit more open than streaming ASF.
Of course, I don't think they're going to tell us how to do it - why lose out on $2.99 if you're hurting for revenue? :-)
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