[cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

[Andrea Tazzari]

Hi Gora,
I'll be pleased to see the PhoneGap application done and test with our 
steams.
For your understanding PhoneGap it will able also to decode aac+ streams?
At the AurovilleRadio actually we have quite a lot of speeches but some 
music too in the schedule.
Regarding the live radio chat you can do it when you have real time 
broadcast. In Internet broadcast it's very difficult because the long 
latency factor.
Regarding the connections I'm sure we'll see in the next years we'll see 
in the G3 technology spread all over India at competitive prices.
At that time the quality of the sound will improve a lot.
Just matter of band-with and streamer's setting.
Cheers.

Andrea
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On 05/03/10 09:40, Gora Mohanty wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:44:20 +0530
> Andrea Tazzari<andreat at auroville.org.in>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Hi Gora,
>> Thanks for your observation.
>> I have circulate your message in our developer's team.
>>      
> I have been talking to a friend of mine who runs an Internet
> radio music station about building a mobile application for
> the site. With PhoneGap, such an application can be used
> across a large number of handsets. Music will obviously require
> a connection with larger bandwidth than GPRS, but the front-end
> application can be the same, and moreover, the interface can easily
> be restyled with CSS.
>
> Would be glad to take a shot at building such an application.
> Due to commitments at work, it would be difficult for me to
> commit right now to a fixed time line. Nevertheless, let
> me know if this sounds interesting.
>
> [...]
>    
>> I have a connection @ 199 Rs/monts (unlimited traffic) with BSNL.
>> Soon I'll increase the band-with in order to test with a better
>> sound quality.
>>      
> [...]
>
> Auroville Radio is doing just speech, right? I really do not think
> that music will work on a GPRS connection, but do you have any plans
> of trying?
>
> Another thought: If streaming speech over GPRS is working well, it
> ought to be possible to send similar audio back to the radio
> station. Thus, one could have a live radio chat, or something like
> citizen journalism.
>
> Regards,
> Gora
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