Sunday, July 11, 2010

StreamStar beta app released for Android

Finally got my MP3 music player "StreamStar" packaged up on Android Market and it's now available for installation on Android based devices. Its purpose is to allow progressive streaming of your home music collection (MP3 files) using a web server set up for directory browsing. I've successfully done this myself using a DNS-321 NAS device running lighttpd and also successfully tested using IIS. Since it's not wise to expose your entire music collection to the online world, you'll probably want to tunnel the HTTP connection over SSH and use an obscure port for added security. Being my first Android app and coming from the VB.Net world (i.e. Java noob), there are bound to be some bugs so expect to see a force close (FC) or two. But it does work nicely once you get things set up correctly on the server side.

Since this is the first public beta release, the app will self-terminate when executed on or after 9/1/2010 (I should have newer versions available by then.)