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Diggin MP3 Player

I have a Shoutcast app already written and ready to go (Nitoware Radio)except there's a hitch: the Android MediaPlayer object handles only "progressive download" MP3's, which audio streams aren't. If that hitch is overcome, you'll see my app and probably a half dozen others immediately.
 
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Can't you just dump the stream to a file on the sdcard or even internal storage then call media player on that? I don't write in Java very much but isn't there some sort of file-like object you can use as a buffer and pass that to the media player if creating a file is sub-optimal?

I'd actually like to see you folks creating apps open-source your code and host it on code.google.com or sourceforge or something. I can't imagine people paying for a media player these days, especially one which plays free internet streams. If I knew Java I'd create one myself.. but I'm somewhat limited on that front.
 
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