iPhone Radio Streaming for WMA audio files

Question

I need to implement iphone streaming functionality for WMA audio files from the server. iPhone can support only mp3, wav, aac audio files. But I need to play wma audio streaming for the iphone radio application.

Can anyone tell me how to do this things. I really thankful for your help. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Basically impossible unless you feel like writing your own decoder. The iPhone doesn't support WMA and that's kind of the end of it.

Answer 2

I totally agree with Noah Witherspoon. Just adding one step, for handling audio streaming you should look at this

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

For wma you should use the FFmpeg library. FFmpeg will be able to decode wma audio streams and also connect to mms audio streams.

If you do a little research you'll find ways to compile static FFmpeg libraries for the iOS platform. Once you have the static FFmpeg libraries in place you can connect to audio streams and start decoding. To play the decoded audio packets you'll need to use the AudioQueue framework. Basically you pass the decoded audio data to AudioQueue and tell it to play the buffers filled with the decoded data FFmpeg gave you.