Internet Radio via MeetMe Conference Bridge?

[Husker97]

Hello PIAF folks.

I have a strange but perhaps interesting question. I am a big fan of Nebraska Football, but I happen to live in Big 10 country. Getting video & audio of the games can occasionally be a challenge, but fortunately the radio feed of all games is broadcast over the Internet (www.huskers.com).

I am not always near an Internet computer, and I would like to hear the games from anywhere. The "easy" answer would be to obtain a satellite radio (Sirius/XM), but I have a less expensive & creative idea.

I would like to bridge the radio feed with a Meetme bridge and then call into that bridge. The cost of this solution is minimal, as my cell carrier offers unlimited calling on weekends, and I can use a FreeDigits or other DID.

However, bridging the audio confuses me a bit. The "low tech" method I have tried is to use a single workstation, play the stream, and use a softphone to dial into the bridge. I then use a 3.5 mm cable to bridge the mic and headphone jacks (and adjust audio levels to a reasonable setting). From my cell phone, I simply dial into the same bridge and listen via bluetooth earpiece. Not great, but it works.

Is there a better or more elegant way to do this? Maybe a better way to connect the audio to the conference bridge, or maybe a different approach altogether? For reference, the audio stream appears to be a Windows media stream.

 

[KLH]

This is almost the same thing I use to broadcast my police scanner over the telephone. I have a softphone running on my computer, and a cable going from my scanner to my microphone on my computer. From there, my scanner connects to a conference room on my Asterisk server, and then when I call my asterisk server from my cell phone, it automatically forwards my call to the same conference room.

 

[TheShniz]

Well....... you could try Streaming MoH from the station.

To support a single listener, just create a conference room... and they will listen to music forever (or until someone joins).

To support many listeners, create a perpetual Queue or Ring Group with no agents defined, no timelimit, and no failover destination.

 

[cosmicwombat]

I used a different method...sortof

Using this data, jacking the sound out if my scanner into the sound card of my PBX...

Also, in FreePBX 2.5 --> Music on Hold --> Add Streaming Catagory "Application" Field I added "/usr/sbin/ast-playlinein" instead of altering musiconhold_custom.conf.

The I did the endless Queue bit and multiple callers can listen in.