[cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-03 Thread Kara Andrade
Is anyone out there doing community radio using cellphones. What are the different models being used? Thank you! Kara Andrade www.hablaguate.com On 3/2/10 11:56 PM, "cr-india-requ...@sarai.net" wrote: > Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:09:55 -0700 (MST) From: "George Lessard" > Subject: [

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-03 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
Hello, We have been able to get Bluetooth enabled cellphones working with Asterisk to make and receive phone calls, but the audio quality is not too good. A better option is to use GSM PCI cards or GSM gateways: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/GSM . We haven't tested any of these solutions

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-03 Thread Andrea Tazzari
Hi, The AurovilleRadio is testing since December 2009 broadcasting trough cellphones connect with GPRS connections. It's working fine but you need a cellphone supporting Flash technology and for time being are expensive. If you have a Flash enabled phone connected with Internet you can log into

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-03 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:34:56 +0530 Andrea Tazzari wrote: > Hi, > The AurovilleRadio is testing since December 2009 broadcasting > trough cellphones connect with GPRS connections. This sounds like a great idea. Are people using it? What is the sound quality, and the reliability of the streaming?

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-03 Thread Andrea Tazzari
Hi Gora, Thanks for your observation. I have circulate your message in our developer's team. Actually the sound quality it's more close to a AM broadcast than a FM this because we are streaming in mono and in very low bandwith (1Kbs/sec circa) in order to keep up the connection. With this speed

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-04 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
Cool! Actually, just a clarification from my end. When I mentioned about our work with Asterisk, I was talking about the server side, of how the radio station could receive phone calls, archive the calls, put the caller on air, etc. Andrea and Gora are talking about the client side, of how rad

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:44:20 +0530 Andrea Tazzari 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 Phon

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-04 Thread Rajen Varada
The best phone to use is a Nokia 2323 classic which is also one of the cheapest phones in the indian market at about $65. Rajen Varada Skype: rajen_tftp cell: 09711201477 --- On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Kara Andrade wrote: > Is anyone out there doing

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-04 Thread sajan venniyoor
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > 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? Auroville Radio streams a fair amount of music, I believe. At least, I have listened to some

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-04 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:14:22 +0530 sajan venniyoor wrote: > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Gora Mohanty > wrote: > > > 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? > > > Aurov

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-04 Thread 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