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Listening to XM and/or Sirius Radio Streams on iPhone

Hey everyone! I did a little research today, and found an easy (relatively) way to listen to XM or Sirius radio on the iPhone. First off, this is NOT a hack, and requires no installs on the iPhone. All this requires is a Windows PC (sorry, mac-users...I have a mac too, but my wife has a PC, so I used hers), an Orb account (free), Windows Media Player and a program called UXM. Again, this is not a hack, just a way for iPhone users to enjoy XM. (I do not take responsibility for anything anyone does, as the following instructions were not written by me. I have taken them from everythingiphone.com, and all rights etc. belong to them) cheers! It works well, not really ideal but its a start.

"Things you will need to get started.

1. An xm subscription
2. uXM from http://www.millardsoftware.com/
3. Orb server from orb.com
4. An iPhone

Download an install uXM (to the PC). Click the settings button and enter your email address and password you use to stream xm online.
Click start.

Download and install the orb server (again, PC). Part of the install process will help you create an orb account. Once you have uXM and orb running on your PC (I could not get this to work in parallels on my mac) go back to the orb.com on your PC and sign in/orb 2.0.

Click Open Application.
Click Audio.
Click Favorite Channels under internet radio.
Click the 'add custom' link that is on the top of the page.
Type in the xm channel name.
Double click the uXM logo in your tray (next to the clock) and click the URLS button. Choose the xm channel you want to stream from the pull down menu.
Click the clipboard button.
Return to the orb website and paste the url in the url field.
Click save.

Now get out your iPhone and go to orb.com and sign in.
Click Audio.
Click Internet Radio Favorites.
Click the channel icon for the channel you just saved.
Click play.
Click the small play arrow in the lower right corner of the QT screen.

Your stream should start. Mine seems to hung up at about 11 seconds. I just hit the back arrow and click play again and it work fine.

Wash, rinse, repeat for your other favorite xm channels."

Again, to repeat myself, this is not a hack, nor does it violate the iPhone's warranty, etc. It uses safari's quicktime plugin, that's it!

Note: For Sirius users, the UXM website millardsoftware has a Sirius application as well. Just follow the same steps, but on the sirius app. I don't have Sirius, so I don't know how well it works.

iMac G5 20" Macbook-White, iPhone, iPod 5.5, iPod Nano, Powerbook G4 12", Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Sep 23, 2007 5:51 PM

77 replies

Varick Author

Level 1

46 points

Oct 25, 2007 7:06 PM in response to punchline

Yes. And you need to make sure that you have access to the necessary ports from outside your local network. there are details on the orb website for port numbers etc. post back if you have further questions.

Kornfed

Level 1

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Nov 2, 2007 3:05 PM in response to Varick

I am able to listen to XM on my iphone, but I keep loseing a signal. This happens even when I have all my signal bars on my phone. So about every 10 seconds I haft to hit the play button. What can fix this??

Ansuz82

Level 6

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Nov 2, 2007 3:07 PM in response to Kornfed

Are you streaming over the EDGE network? If so, it probably can't keep up with the data transfer needed to stream the audio.

Varick Author

Level 1

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Nov 2, 2007 3:41 PM in response to Ansuz82

EDGE is definitely slow...I have this problem sometime. My solution is to press pause immediately, let it sit and buffer for about 1 or 2 minutes, then press play. That way you aren't listening right on the edge of the buffer, but a few seconds behind it. Its kind of like CD-Skip protection...but for streaming music. Make sense? If that doesn't work, check your firewall settings on your ORB PC, and make sure you are getting a good upload speed on your modem. That should help some as well. Remember, the quicktime buffer saves everything it reads, so if it starts to buffer or stop, just scroll back to the beginning. Cheers!

Nov 9, 2007 6:58 PM in response to Varick

Thank you so much for posting this!!! I added all my favorite Sirius channels and I was able to get Howard on my iphone!!!! I followed the instructions (except added Sirius, instead of XM) and it works just like you said. It does hang a little bit like 10-20 secs before the little play button shows up, but all and all it works great.

Again... thanks!!!!

Nov 10, 2007 2:02 PM in response to Varick

I dont know what happened, but today its not working... Orb is saying that port 80 isnt accessible, but I have that port open. ??? What happened? It worked last night.

robot63

Level 1

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Nov 10, 2007 2:38 PM in response to Varick

I had this working a few days ago and now it says "this movie could not be played" ? I have tried several times? anybody else having problems?

Nov 10, 2007 4:38 PM in response to robot63

how funny... mine was saying the same thing. But now... randomly its working again. I dont know what happened, but its working again. May be a network problem? BTW.... Orb.com totally rocks. I am going out of town tomorrow, and I will be able to access photos, music, etc from my computer at my house from my iphone! GENIUS!!!!

Tiffani

Level 1

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Nov 21, 2007 7:08 PM in response to Varick

Hi there,

I have followed all of the steps and keep getting the error message that my computer does not have the required codecs. I go to the Orb codecs download page and have downloaded almost all of the codecs with no success...any idea exactly which codec needs to be installed for this to run Sirius? I use a XP machine.

Thanks so much for any help.

MFlash

Level 1

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Nov 21, 2007 7:33 PM in response to Tiffani

N/mind, you need a subscription and I dont have one 😟

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MobileDev

Level 3

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Nov 21, 2007 8:03 PM in response to Jak92492

Does anyone not receive phone calls like me when using the sirius?

This is normal. You can't use voice at the same time as EDGE.

Read the last paragraph here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305711

Varick Author

Level 1

46 points

Nov 21, 2007 10:32 PM in response to MFlash

Hey guys. Yes, this is legal (both in that it doesn't pirate XM/Sirius and doesn't unlock your iPhone). As far as codecs go (I got an email with the problem in it), I am not exactly sure why it wouldn't work...make sure you have the latest Windows Media Player, and that your Orb settings are set to use quicktime (not at my PC, so I don't know the exact menu setting). If there's still a problem, try reloading all of the media codecs like quicktime & windows media player. Any other problems, please post. Thanks guys.

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Tiffani

Level 1

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Nov 22, 2007 11:33 AM in response to Varick

Thanks for the info Varick.

I reinstalled the codecs, installed the WMP 11 and still get the message. I went in to configure Orb settings and did a check on Port 80 - it claims the port is not accessible and that I should check my firewall settings. I can't seem to figure out how to check the firewall settings.

I would appreciate any help.

zucarina

Level 1

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Dec 4, 2007 11:18 PM in response to Varick

Hello, I have been following your recommendations but I am in trouble now, I have no computer experience, just got the iphone this week, I will appreciate if you help me. Thanks.

Download an install uXM (to the PC). Click the settings button and enter your email address and password you use to stream xm online.
Click start. (I did all the steps and I am getting this message)

00:44:07 - Unable to login.
00:44:07 - Please check your settings.
01:21:56 - Logging in to XM...
01:21:57 - Login successful.
01:21:57 - Loading channel lineup...
01:21:57 - Unable to load channel lineup.
01:52:30 - Logging in to XM...
01:52:30 - Unable to login.
01:52:30 - Please check your settings.
02:03:32 - Logging in to XM...
02:03:33 - Login successful.
02:03:33 - Loading channel lineup...
02:03:33 - Unable to load channel lineup.

Click Open Application.
Click Audio.
Click Favorite Channels under internet radio.
Click the 'add custom' link that is on the top of the page.
**Type in the xm channel name.* I don't know the channel name or path, please help. Thanks. Zucarina

Varick Author

Level 1

46 points

Dec 5, 2007 12:42 AM in response to zucarina

Hey Zucarina.

Ok, seems like you might want to check your username and password and make sure they are right. If so, then make sure you are connected to the internet and everything. It is possible that XM's web server was down. Try again tomorrow and let me know what is going on.

Once we have that figured out, the XM Channel Name is the url which, once uXM is installed, is used to play music on your PC. Let's get the first problem fixed, then we will go with the second one, ok?

Listening to XM and/or Sirius Radio Streams on iPhone