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Windows Media Mobile Technology
Streamed Radio and Music PreviewYou can build a mobile media solution using Windows Media mobile technology that enables your subscribers to stream radio stations and preview music clips. Subscribers can search for and then play radio stations that are streamed in real time to their handsets. Also, when searching for music, they can preview short music clips before committing to a purchase. The preview clip is a Windows Media Audio file that is streamed on demand.
How It WorksContent providers encode the music tracks to Windows Media Audio files by using Windows Media Encoder 9 Series, and publish them to a Windows Media server. A live radio signal is encoded, and the stream is sourced by a Windows Media server.
Subscribers search Web pages and choose to stream the radio station or play a short preview clip. The Windows Media server streams the content to the player on the handset.
The following tables describe the service and mobile device components you'll need to create a streamed radio and music preview service.
Service Components| Component | Description |
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Windows Media Services 9 Series (a service of the Windows Server 2003 operating systems)
| Streams live or on-demand audio and video content over a public or private IP-based network, such as the Internet or an intranet. You can configure and manage one or more streaming media servers that deliver your content to fixed and mobile devices.
For more information, see Windows Media Services 9 Series.
| Windows Media Encoder 9 Series
| Compresses and encodes audio and video content to a Windows Media file or live stream.
For more information, see Windows Media Encoder 9 Series.
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Mobile Device Components| Component | Description |
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Windows Media Audio 10 Professional codec
| Offers the widest range of capabilities of any Windows Media audio codec. It can be used for mobile scenarios at bit rates below 128 kilobits per second (Kbps) all the way up to multi-channel playback at 768 kbps. Now one codec can deliver profiles that offer both better-than-CD resolutions and high-efficiency encoding to optimize for wireless delivery and playback.
| Windows Media Audio 9 codec
| Decodes the Windows Media-based content and provides other functionality used by the device for playing the content. Also provides the protocols for streaming, as well as Windows Media Services Fast Connect and Fast Reconnect on your device.
For more information, see Windows Media 9 Series Codecs—Audio.
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