Mobile platform support for remote music play

Abstract

Along with the development of mobile devices, it became convenient to produce and consume media contents and accordingly, various media applications have been developed. Proliferation of media contents and the desire to share them with others necessitate novel mobile software technologies that enable convenient and efficient media sharing. While current mobile platforms provide lots of functionalities for media production and consumption, they do not provide any functionality for media sharing among remote users. In this paper, we design and implement a remote music play service to Android platform. Using this platform service, one can share his/her music contents with remote users without using any contents sharing application. And since local music contents are transferred to other device in a streaming, not a file transfer, manner, it is free from copyright violation problem. Experimental results show that the proposed music sharing service shows not only lower latency but also lower overall power consumption than an application level file transferbased music sharing. Using our modified Android platform, users can share their music contents with others without installing any media sharing application.