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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

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Varick Author

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Dec 18, 2007 4:49 PM in response to jcollins63

Hey jcollins, sorry for the delay. Spreading Christmas cheer.

Ok, I've been thinking about your problem, and your best bet might be to erase all of the preset Sirius Channels you made through Mallard Software's sirius software, reinstall that software, and then recreate the channels. My reasoning is that the URLs the software used have since changed, and you are trying to access nonexistent URLs. Since you had it working at one point (and it has since stopped), the Sirius application might be defaulting to the now-defunct URLs. That would also explain why you can't access the files in Orb or on your iPhone.

1.) Check your URLs as they are now. Copy them all down and recreate URLs through a reinstalled Sirius Application. See if the URLs are the same. If they are, skip down to the next section. If they aren't, and they work on your iPhone, then happy holidays.

Next Section: Ok, so the URLs are the same. You might, for some odd reason, have a problem with your ports. Is your PC on a router, or directly connected? If router, have you checked the port connection settings in ORB? If directly connected, check the same ports, and, if need be, open them on your PC's firewall. Make sure iSirius (or whatever it is called) has access to its necessary ports as well (on both router and PC, if applicable). 99% of the problems with this setup are ports, networking conflicts and URL corruption. If you check for those three things, and the streams still aren't working, send me a reply. We can figure this out, don't fret.

Cheers.

Grem91

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Dec 26, 2007 2:49 PM in response to Varick

I have a problem, whenever I try to stream audio through Orb on my ipod touch i get this message: "Safari can't download this file" I set it to use quicktime to stream but it still doesn't work. I get the same thing for ANY audio I try to stream through Orb not just my XM Feed.

Listening to XM and/or Sirius Radio Streams on iPhone