Ongoing Music Adapter Pro

Important Notice - "Ongoing Music Adapter Pro" is no longer available on the market.

1/31/10 - I have been informed that I cannot continue to publish my applications in their current state. Please bear with me as I work through the proper channels to get these applications re-published. Thank you for all your support.

10/4/09 - I have taken the application down from the market due to reports of resuming problems on the latest Android 1.6 ROM which is the recent upgrade being rolled out. After doing some preliminary investigation, it seems to be a problem that also affects the standard Music application. While this means this is not a fault of "Ongoing Music Adapter Pro", I believe it would be unfair for me to be advertising the ability to resume the streams when it is broken in 1.6. As a regular user of this application daily, I am disappointed myself, and I'll probably be sticking to my older 1.5 ROM for now... Thank you to those who reported the problems early! http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4124

Video Howto

Screenshots

Changes

Version 1.5.0 - 6/15/09

• Fixed a problem where a file with encoded spaces could not be opened.

Version 1.4.0

• Remove play notification icon by resetting the player on playback completion. This should also permit additional resources to be reclaimed.

Version 1.3.0

• Fixed issue where resuming currently playing file would start over if it had never been paused.
• Fixed how the retry button would not resume at the proper position of the currently playing file.
• Various internal clean up to avoid creating useless objects and hanging onto long living references. Also added some logging statements to help find memory leaks, but there are no suspected issues of memory leaks at this point though.

Version 1.2.0

• Added a "Retry" convenience button to attempt to open the link again.
• Clicking on a finished link starts playback from the beginning again.
• Various internal clean up of code to improve stability.

Version 1.1.0

• Choosing a link from the list will reset the player and resume from the interrupted position EVEN if it is the current playback. See the FAQ's second question for more details.
• Streamlined the progress bar not to display confusing secondary progress.

Version 1.0.0

• Initial release.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is difference between the Lite and the Pro version?
   1. Please watch the YouTube Howto above to see the exact difference between the Lite and Pro version. The ONLY difference is that in the Pro version allows you to pause and resume playback at a later time. As you click on MP3 links, the Pro version keeps track of what you have opened. When you pause playback, the Pro version saves your position in the MP3, so that you can resume it later by clicking on the "Ongoing Music Adapter Pro" application from your Home screen and then selecting the MP3 link from the list. This is the only additional feature in the Pro version!
2. Will playback be resumed if WIFI/3G/Edge is lost then regained later?
   1. No, the adapter does not provide an automatic resume capability, but it does permit you to reconnect and resume the current playback.
   2. When connectivity is lost, the Android Music player will continue playing until it has exhausted its buffer, and then it will merely stop playing. You will still see the notification play icon in the upper left, but no music will be playing and the progress bar will not move. This is because it still thinks it is playing, but it is not getting any more data to play. Once you have regained connectivity choose the stream you were playing from the adapter's list, and it will reset the player and resume playing at whatever position the Android Music player got stuck. This is a manual solution that should relieve some of the frustration of the prior solution of choosing a different stream to play and then again choosing the prior stream to get the player to unjam itself.