Online Audio streaming changes

[cookinbrak]

NFL mobile? I know nothing about it, it was the first thing that came up on a search.

[PanthersATL]

2 hours ago, Popsickle said:

Phones data still works off location which is generated from the towers in which it communicates with. 

If you go airplane mode or use orbot/orfox you can mask your location. 

And further more if you take the time to look into this you can make the virtual location, the physical location you desire. 

I have to do work in NE NC, a lot. It's part of the Redskins market and have no problem working my way into a Panthers stream 

Phones often keep the IP address of the first tower they connect to, and keep that IP as you wander from tower to tower... even to the point of keeping that IP as you leave the defined market area.  Even rebooting/reconnecting doesn't always reset your IP to your new location (it does reset eventually, but never when you want it to).

Geofencing of streaming audio doesn't use the geolocation target of your phone, the streaming companies use the IP you connect with because not every device has location services turned on.

 

[PanthersATL]

3 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

did you try the stream from the wbt website or just tune in?  

Yes.

Multiple streaming services - TuneIn/iHeart/Panthers/direct links. Multiple devices (albeit all mobile), multiple browsers, and multiple browser user agents to try to spoof desktop.

While I appreciate y'all's thoughts on what other options there are -- and happy to hear that I'm not the only one with this interest -- this was more of a bitch about the NFL not wanting to allow the radio broadcasts to be heard outside of the listening area.   Escpecially since it's not like radio signals can't be heard for a pretty huge distance anyway.

Video coverage? SURE, i get that - that's tied up with Verizon. 

Hell, I might as well haul out a big antenna and try to DX the WBT signal direct rather than use technology. Too bad I'd likely not be in the bar to do that.
(I was driving along and scanning the radio dial one day and picked up pretty clear traffic and weather reports from a station 800 miles away once. Was fun)

 

[PanthersATL]

I did try TUNITY with no success, to get the TV audio on the phone. While it works just fine for local TV broadcasts, it seems to have difficulty with satellite feeds that aren't aired locally.

Tunity suffers from the same problem as the Pro Radio suggestion above -- don't want to pay for it.  Especially not for something that up until last week or the week before was working perfectly fine until the NFL stuck their nose into it.

[jfra78]

ya i hate that too, i try to listen at work to the primetime games and most of the time its blocked.  have to listen to the video broadcast on verizon, but listening to video is not ideal