The Tone Before a Stream Starts

Don't know if anybody else has this -- but -- before any stream starts I hear two rings which sound like a telephone ringing?

Is it just me?

Yes, those are telephone rings. I think they have a modified VOIP setup if that's the case. It'd be interesting if that was the case. If a stream is unavailable, you'll get a redial signal too.

does that mean my blackberry is calling out and using up my voice minutes or is it using my unlimited data plan?

no - just your data minutes, hopefully unlimited.

Yesterday I was playing with your service and I noticed that you set this up on a VOIP PBX. How I figured this out was I was surfing through radios stations and I went to one heard the ringing connected. The second time I tried connecting I got an SIT tone which is that beep beep beep. I was playing with VOIP pbx awhile ago since I work for a Telecom company. Are you using FreeSwitch? It is pretty amazing how you can manipulate the programming to do pretty much anything you want it to with a couple of tweaks and using codecs! I was thinking also that you could probably stream video through it as well. What do you think?

Thanks for such awesome programming!

As stated elsewhere on the forum, the ring tone is just an audio file that plays whilst your stream is loading. No phone call is being made.

Siber,

People are taking voip pbxs and applying them for different uses. I never said anything about it "making a call" What I did say is that he apply the programming for one of the voip software packages out their and converted it to connect to a stream. The reason why you hear the ringing is because orginally the application was used to make sip to calls but it was reprogrammed to connect to streams. As I said before pretty nice programming!

No, it's a simple audio file that plays so that you know it's buffering the stream you've requested. It could be any sound file, it just happens to be an old fashioned dial tone. It is nothing to do with SIP.