I've put together a small application in Linux that can allow a
Linksys WML11B wireless music device to read real audio and
windows media streams. I've only tested this under Linux so far. Let me
know if anyone finds this useful. Beside Linksys, it may also work with
other devices that can only read MP3 streams (netgear, homepod, d-link,
aireo, soundblaster, etc.); so if anyone has one, I'd be interested in your
results. The app that serves out the MP3 is in Java, but it uses a number
of native applications like lame, mplayer, mkfifo, etc to read stream and
convert it to MP3.

README
http://home.comcast.net/~cgokey/mp3/README.txt

Application
http://home.comcast.net/~cgokey/mp3/mp3.tar.gz

Chris

Sorry for the incorrect links:

http://home.comcast.net/~cgokey/java/mp3/README.txt
http://home.comcast.net/~cgokey/java/mp3/mp3.tar.gz

Chris

<posted & mailed>

Chris Gokey wrote:

> I've put together a small application in Linux that can allow a
> Linksys WML11B wireless music device to read real audio and
> windows media streams. I've only tested this under Linux so far. Let me
> know if anyone finds this useful. Beside Linksys, it may also work with
> other devices that can only read MP3 streams (netgear, homepod, d-link,
> aireo, soundblaster, etc.); so if anyone has one, I'd be interested in
> your
> results. The app that serves out the MP3 is in Java, but it uses a number
> of native applications like lame, mplayer, mkfifo, etc to read stream and
> convert it to MP3.
>
> README
> http://home.comcast.net/~cgokey/mp3/README.txt
>
> Application
> http://home.comcast.net/~cgokey/mp3/mp3.tar.gz
>
> Chris

I've updated the code to now support windows. This is a small java server that will dynamically serve out windows media and real audio streams as MP3. I did this because my LinkSys WML11B music server only supports mp3 streams and I listen to a lot of windows media and real audio steams.
If anyone find this interesting, please let me know. I've gotten a few requests to make this work on more than just linux, so here it is:

http://home.comcast.net/~cgokey/java/mp3/index.html

Chris

but the links and files still exist. yo i just downloaded the windows stuff, lets see if it works..

Linux or OS X still works better, but Windows should work. Let me know how it goes for you.

-chris

looks kinda neat, so far not able to get windows to work, gonna go bak make sure i got it right, and see if I can find firmware 2.3.6, i have 2.3.5 on my media station. im also not running any of the media station server crap, maybe it needs it??

getting closer, doesnt work with dos based windows.. ..LOL.. no cmd.exe

cool -- found the Readme for windows from http://home.comcast.net/~cgokey/java/mp3/index.html and at the install directory, where you unzip the files to, is out of date or incomplete, down in the "server" directory of the unziped tree, is the complete Readme, telling the pre-req apps needed to get this to work. And for dos based windows, simply copying command.com to cmd.exe (to %windir%) works fine (course could just change the source too :))

Did you get it running? You may want to check out this newsgroup
too, I hear a lot of other alternatives out there depending on what
you need...
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wmls11b/

But, feel free to email me directly if you have any issues:
cgokey at comcast dot net

Chris

hey chris, thanks for the info, i can get firmware 2.3.6 from that group. also i am getting 'bad commmand or file name' when the media station connects to the java web instance, so somerthing is screwed up, maybe dos based windows dont work, not sure, i am going to run tracing on java and review the code. i am not running any of this on C: drive, and that might be hard coded. so i got some checking to do. thanks for the eaddr if i need help.

thx rich

just got firmware updated to 2.3.6 from the http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wmls11b/ site. Lot of other info and stuff there too.