LANmic

Portable Electronics Ltd

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About this app

Microphone live streaming from your Android device to any streaming music player.

Features
- Capture sound from your microphone and stream it live
- Supports HTTP WAVE/MP3/AMR/OGG, RTSP AAC/AMR
- User selectable sample rate and default port
- Mic volume indicator (HTTP only)
- Live streaming via Chromecast (WAVE or MP3 only)
- Share the url to compatible app such as Bubbleupnp, so you can forward the link to uPnP/DLNA renderer such as XBMC
- Continue live streaming while screen is off or app in background
- Display transfer rate (kbps) and packet drop % when player is connected

Tested to run well on old Android 2.3 phones. Put your old mobiles/tablets to a good use.

How to listen to the live stream?
Option A
1) Select HTTP WAVE or MP3 in the app
2) Press the On/Off button in the app
3) Press the Chromecast icon that appears at the top
4) Select the Chromecast device you want to sent the live stream to
Option B
1) On your computer, open your favourite streaming music player, e.g. VLC and type in the url.
2) Click the share button in the app, select a compatible remote control application, e.g. Bubbleupnp which will forward the url to the corresponding player/speaker e.g. XBMC/Bubbleupnp.

How you might want to use app.
1) Baby monitor - put your old phone running LANmic in your baby's room while you listen to the stream on your computer/speaker to monitor any abnormality
2) Child monitor - while your children is playing games on your Android device, leave this app running in the background while you listen to the stream on your computer/speaker to monitor your children without bring in line of sight
3) One way communication - While your upnp renderer/speaker is running, initiate playback of your Live LANmic stream from your mobile to broadcast a messge, e.g. to call your children to come down for dinner.
4) Two way communication - Have two devices running LANmic as well as Bubbleupnp (or similar), sent the live stream to each other, so you can listen and talk to each other. Note: there is likely to be significant time delay due to the player's buffer.
5) Record/spy on someone's communication - With the device's screen off and LANmic running, play the live stream elsewhere and save the live stream using application such as VLC.

Time delay
For no delay, use RTSP AAC and set buffer to 0 seconds. Otherwise, HTTP using wave have time delay around 100ms whereas mp3 have around 500ms delay, if you configure your streaming player to use minimum or no buffer. VLC provides the lowest time delay playing wave stream when buffer is set to zero. XBMC have around 5 seconds time delay whether it is wave or mp3 encoded.

Note: If using HTTP AMR, VLC will need at least 30 seconds to connect before playback starts with over 30 seconds delay.

LAN only
This app will only work on your local area network. The live stream is will not pass through to the internet unless you setup port forwarding to your device.

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If you encounter any problems or have any suggestions, please visit our feedback forum (http://lanmic.idea.informer.com) and let us know.

Ratings and reviews

LANmic has a lot of good features. Most importantly, the audio is clear with reasonably low background noise. The app works equally well with the internal mic or an external one. It connects automatically to my router, discovers its local IP address, and displays it. Streaming to VLC, WinAmp, and a second smartphone are all trouble-free. The choice of WAV or MP3 is good, and the choice of sampling frequencies is a nice plus. On the negative side, the bar-graph level meter is much too fast and much too sensitive. As a result it is entirely useless. The MP3 bitrate appears to be VBR, according to the app's constantly changing display. That can pose a problem if I want to record the stream coming in to WinAmp. (It will also be important if I port forward my router and listen at a different location, since I'm stuck with a slow DSL connection.) I strongly wish the MP3 bitrate was fixed and user selectable (as the sampling rate is). I would gladly pay a reasonable price for this app, especially if the above issues were fixed. I don't mind the ads in the bar at the bottom of the screen. BUT the full-screen video ad for TikTok (or ANY full-screen video ad, for that matter) is entirely unacceptable. All in all, I'm glad I found LANmic. This type of app is rather unusual and hard to find. Please fix the above minor issues, and give me a paid version to eliminate the ads, and I'll be your supporter forever!

I used this with VLC to stream the audio and record the feed straight to laptop.. tried it with 2 cellphones and both worked amazingly well with very high quality sound. I will likely be using this APP regularly in the future!

Another one that plays an ad almost after every action. Still does not connect to Chromecast as it claims. Basically not as advertised stay away.

What's new

Version 3.0.1
Display message instead of null IP address when WiFi not connected
Show toast message instead of crash if browser not installed
Misc fixes

Version 3.0
Added Chromecast support
Fixed crash if default port is used by another app
Fixed crash if OGG is used on some devices
Updated library used