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12/12/12 02:39 PM (13 years ago)

New plugin approved (iOS): The Audio Streamer Plugin

Hi, We are very proud to announce the release of The Audio Streamer Plugin. With The Audio Streamer Plugin for Buzztouch you can play and stream .mp3 files in a very cool designed screen. The audio plays in the background and stops when you get a phonecall or completely close the app. The audio plays directly while downloading and does not have to finish the downloading process before it plays the audiofile. You can use this plugin for iPhone (portrait) and iPad (portrait and landscape). In the Buzztouch Control panel you can set a couple of parameters: Set the audioURL (mp3 on your server or something like dropbox) Set the album image (or whatever image you like. This image will be included/shown in the player itself) Set a scrolling text (make a nice long text that scrolls in the player). Set a detailed text (the player has an info button. Clicking the info button gives more information about the song or artist or whatever you like) Within the advanced properties you can set a background image. For more information see: www.bt-addons.com/the-plugins/the-audiostreamer-plugin.html You can find the manual here: www.bt-addons.com/images/bt_addons/manuals/audiostreamer_manual.pdf And find the plugin here: www.buzztouch.com/plugins/plugin.php?pid=FA7AC4F6944FF2491FCE8AD Hope you enjoy this new release. Best Regards, Danny Special Thanks: A lot of credits go to David Book since David simplified the install-process so you don't have to add any framework anymore and no changes need to be made in the appDelegate (things you had to do in the initial release).
 
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12/12/12 02:45 PM (13 years ago)
bravo bravo just saw that this made my day buying it right now
 
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12/12/12 02:47 PM (13 years ago)
Hi hacerapps, Have lots of fun with it and feel free to ask if you have any questions. Best Regards, Danny
 
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12/12/12 02:57 PM (13 years ago)
Very nice! LA
 
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12/12/12 03:31 PM (13 years ago)
Very good lucking plugin Danny!! Will you support M3U in the future and other formats in the future? Looking forward to your next plugin already :)
 
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12/12/12 03:35 PM (13 years ago)
Thanks LA an mysps. @mysps: for now I think mp3 will do fine since it's the most used audioformat. Who knows what the future will bring but it isn't on the list..... Best Regards, Danny
 
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12/12/12 03:46 PM (13 years ago)
Awesome release Danny!, congratulations, top quality. David https://buzztouchmods.com
 
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12/12/12 06:15 PM (13 years ago)
Thanks MrDavid for your kind words. I hope you enjoy this release. (with radio 100% NL, haha) Best Regards, Danny
 
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12/12/12 08:09 PM (13 years ago)
Amazing !!! Thank PSMDanny
 
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12/13/12 02:29 AM (13 years ago)
Bravo Danny :-)
 
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12/13/12 03:36 AM (13 years ago)
Fantastic plugin, about to buy now. Well done Danny, keep up the good work!
 
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12/13/12 04:19 AM (13 years ago)
Awesome plugin one question we can also put a streaming url from shoutcast or only mp3 in xcode project ?
 
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12/13/12 04:32 AM (13 years ago)
Hi mysterysolver, Thank you for using The Audio Streamer Plugin. You can only use shoutcasts/radiostations from the type mp3 (just like the example I used in the control panel of this plugin). Other formats are unfortunately not supported. Best Regards, Danny
 
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12/13/12 07:37 AM (13 years ago)
Great work Danny! Going to purchase it now! Thanks for letting me beta test it early on!
 
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12/13/12 08:10 AM (13 years ago)
Awesome. This is my xmas present to myself this season. A proper solution to replace a bunch of my weak audio implementations. This thing just screams PRO LOOK. Amazing job Danny, just stunning. $4.99? Talk about a Black Friday deal - knowing how much coding, testing and design work that goes into this, that's a STEAL. This is definately a feature other App Building services all lack - good CUSTOMIZABLE audio implementation. Just look at the options and subclasses he's got imported here ready to go. Mobile Roadie and MobBase should be so lucky to offer something so well done to their customers. and here you have it -> coded/designed by a user contribution. many, many thanks!!!!
 
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12/13/12 10:39 AM (13 years ago)
@Stobe:you're most welcome and I hope you can use (and demonstrate ;-)) it. @ATRAIN63:Thanks for this great post!!! Yeah, price is low, very cheap! Especially when you have a look at the time of development. But I think all buzztouch plugins need to be in this price range. Makes plugin shopping for everybody a pleasure. Hope to see some great apps with this tool in it!! Best Regards, Danny
 
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12/13/12 03:01 PM (13 years ago)
wow. great stuff. Looks beautiful. Not sure if it's in the readme but this is one of those plug-ins that requires some modification of the appdelegate file. So make sure you drag an updated appdelgate file into your project or it will not build. and IF you've modified your app delegate file (to add something like Parse or some other lines of code for an SDK) make a back-up so you can re-copy the code into the new appdelgate file. Unless I missed it and you documented what was added (or even removed?) to the delegate file? $4.99 a total steal. LOVE the Iron Maiden screen shot :)
 
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12/13/12 03:09 PM (13 years ago)
Hi ATRAIN53, You are absolutely right but.... The core of Buzztouch has changed. If you download a new project you don't have to make the edits. Your appDelegate file contains all the neccessary code for the plugin and the needed frameforks are also included. If you want to use this plugin in an older app (source code downloaded before december 2012) you can go your way or modify by hand. I updated my website with a special manual for this purpose (it was the original manual, in progress, before the core was changed). You can find that manual on: www.bt-addons.com/the-plugins/the-audiostreamer-plugin.html Glad you like it so much and I think that if you want to do something with audio in your app this is definately a must-have!!!! Best Regards, Danny
 
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12/14/12 08:13 AM (13 years ago)
Thanks, appreciate the extra steps. I do have a few old projects I wanted to drop this in and encountered the error. I have a lot of frameworks, edits and customizations in some projects. I also wanted to point out a couple of posts that I came across when I first stated working on a stremer myself- http://www.boralapps.com/how-to-play-streaming-radio-m3u-or-pls-in-your-ios-app/188/ I worked with both of the kits mentioned in that article. The Stormy Radio Kit for $99 is well worth it for a custom streamer solution. But now no longer needed thanks to this plug-in. This plug-in is built with a lot of Gallaghers code, so you now have a lot of the same code that is used in the STREAM TO ME app. so here you have lots of that technology for a bargain price to plug right into your BT app. just amazing. thanks again Danny :)
 
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12/14/12 02:32 PM (13 years ago)
Hi everyone, Today Pablo J. Vydra discovered an issue with The Audio Streamer Plugin. If you want to use it with an iPad the interface didn't change to the iPad version. I'll submit an update to buzztouch but for now you can solve it realy easy. Please do this: 1. in your xCode project look for the file BTA_audiostreamer~iPad.xib and BTA_InfoViewContoller~iPad.xib 2. change these names to BTA_audiostreamer~iPad1.xib and BTA_InfoViewContoller~iPad1.xib 3. next change these files again to BTA_audiostreamer~ipad.xib and BTA_InfoViewContoller~ipad.xib Notice the lowercase "p" in ~ipad You have to do this in three steps cause xCode won't let you change it the first time to the lowercase "p". That's it I also put this info in a separate thread to reach a bigger audience. Thanks again for using the plugin. Best Regards, Danny
 

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