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New MobileMe to Offer Wireless Access to iTunes Library?

Worf said:
I guess the 8 people who voted this as a negative must love using wires and having to slowly sync all their data.
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erm, you do realize that wireless syncing is SLOWER then wired right..

Plus how am i going to stream 2-3gb HD movies over 3g...yeah not.
I can barely load a webpage fast enough on an ipad on 3g in phoenix to not stutter.

Wireless syncing is great for simple things like notes/email/calender over 3g, i can see syncing some music and small movies over wifi but to get my stuff from the cloud in the US is a pipe dream.
No one has good enough "outside the house" wireless internet to effectively use your library in the cloud.
 
PBF said:
How about remote access to our iPhoto libraries?
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Amen to that! Is still can't get over the fact that if you have a Mac in the house with all your movies, music and photos, you can't simply see all of it available on any of the portable iOS devices using the local network. Other Macs can see it all, AppleTV you can see it all. Why not the rest? I would most likely use an iPad only at home. I don't see a need to store all that stuff on it, if I am on my local network. I should be able to just see all my media that's on my Mac on my portable iOS Device. I'm talking out of the box ready to use. I know that there are third party apps that can do this and share across the internet as well. But really, this is a no brainer. Apple should have added this a long time ago as a built-in feature. I will be glad when it finally arrives.
 
gramirez2012 said:
Now this is a reason for me to continue my MobileMe subscription. I would much rather pay the price and gain exciting new features, than have the current set go for free.
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It's already FREE here....

AudioGalaxy
Audiogalaxy's new cloud music player puts all your music and playlists at your fingertips from any computer or mobile phone.
No syncing, no copying, no uploading. Just streaming.
 
All those people who say they currently hate wired-syncing, how do you charge your iPods/iPhones? I usually connect up my iPhone every other night to charge and that's when it syncs - I don't see how full wireless syncing is going to save me from doing this. :confused: Or are you needing to sync several times a day?
 
rscott505 said:
I just don't want to see my media depend on cloud computing. I know when I walk through Center City Philadelphia listening to a radio player on my iPhone, the service drops constantly. If I have that kind of service for content I pay for, that would be a waste. Ask anyone who lost all their data off their Sidekick, and I'm sure that they hate cloud based storage.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter what I or anyone else thinks. It's all about what Steve Jobs wants. So I'll just have to get used to never being able to listen to my content on the iPhone. I just wish that they do leave some ability to store content on the device.
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That isn't how modern cloud computing works - people keep misunderstanding this. The ability to get NEW content from the cloud does not mean that there is no local storage on the device. Add to this buffering of files before playback and there is no issue.
 
skellener said:
It's already FREE here....

AudioGalaxy
Audiogalaxy's new cloud music player puts all your music and playlists at your fingertips from any computer or mobile phone.
No syncing, no copying, no uploading. Just streaming.
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Yup, but that's one more service to manage, to have it all in one suite of services is the advantage. Also I don't want "only" streaming, i want local storage for playback when I'm away from wi-fi / 3G coverage.
 
Ok massive problems with this
1. Data usage-Ok so your on your way home from work and you decide to listen to your ipod if this new service is true.... how does it work? does it use itunes as a server and connect to it everytime you want to listen to music or does it download the music onto your ipod/phone?
2. Ipod touch users as above but what if you have no wifi

I'd be really interested in finding out how this works :confused:
 
My biggest "pain" (completely a first-world problem here) is that I have to sync every day to get my podcasts onto my device and marked as watched in iTunes. God forbid I have to plug my iPhone in for 20 seconds every day to get hours' worth of new content, right? :rolleyes: Anyhow, now that the Verizon iPhone is out and it's working so awesomely for me, this remains my one point of pain with the setup. And I've tried Stitcher and similar apps, and I just don't get the same experience and ease of use as in the iPod app. :apple:

If they could get this wirelessly syncing or cloud-based or whatever that would get rid of that pain! Yay!
 
infiniteentropy said:
My biggest "pain" (completely a first-world problem here) is that I have to sync every day to get my podcasts onto my device and marked as watched in iTunes. God forbid I have to plug my iPhone in for 20 seconds every day to get hours' worth of new content, right? :rolleyes: Anyhow, now that the Verizon iPhone is out and it's working so awesomely for me, this remains my one point of pain with the setup. And I've tried Stitcher and similar apps, and I just don't get the same experience and ease of use as in the iPod app. :apple:

If they could get this wirelessly syncing or cloud-based or whatever that would get rid of that pain! Yay!
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Spot on! :D
 
infiniteentropy said:
My biggest "pain" (completely a first-world problem here) is that I have to sync every day to get my podcasts onto my device and marked as watched in iTunes. God forbid I have to plug my iPhone in for 20 seconds every day to get hours' worth of new content, right? :rolleyes: Anyhow, now that the Verizon iPhone is out and it's working so awesomely for me, this remains my one point of pain with the setup. And I've tried Stitcher and similar apps, and I just don't get the same experience and ease of use as in the iPod app. :apple:

If they could get this wirelessly syncing or cloud-based or whatever that would get rid of that pain! Yay!
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But aren't you also charging then? I'm guessing if you're listening to podcasts on a daily basis you're having to charge once a day anyway? Just curious.
 
lisster said:
erm, you do realize that wireless syncing is SLOWER then wired right..

Plus how am i going to stream 2-3gb HD movies over 3g...yeah not.
I can barely load a webpage fast enough on an ipad on 3g in phoenix to not stutter.

Wireless syncing is great for simple things like notes/email/calender over 3g, i can see syncing some music and small movies over wifi but to get my stuff from the cloud in the US is a pipe dream.
No one has good enough "outside the house" wireless internet to effectively use your library in the cloud.
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Who said it was over 3G?
Even if it was sync in my network, I think this is cool. I back up my Mac wireless, why not my iPhone? Even if it takes a little bit to do, it's not like you come home and leave right away.
 
aarond12 said:
This would be ideal if you have high-speed Internet access wherever you go. Last week, I was in a tiny town that didn't even have 3G service for cellular phones (Verizon OR AT&T). How can I stream my music? The hotel had a decent connection but it wasn't free and my company won't pay for that. :mad:
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It all depends on the implementation. Obviously listening to all of your own music over 3G and then spending tons on 3G traffic is nonsense. Here's what could be done: You still select in iTunes songs that are actually copied to the phone, just as you do now, but also the structure of your complete library is copied. Your complete library is then copied to the cloud. Whenever you play a song, it is either already on your iPhone, or it will be downloaded right there. With download speed throttled, in case you are just skipping through songs (so if you listen to only ten seconds, you only pay for ten seconds of 3G traffic, not for downloading the whole song if your phone is fast enough).

Add a switch in the app on the iPhone that makes all songs that are not synced invisible, in case you have no connection or a very expensive connection (listening to your own music abroad for a dollar per megabyte would be very, very expensive).
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_6 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8E200 Safari/6533.18.5)

I tend to charge from a wall outlet plug from the living room or at the office
 
Even as a MobileMe subscriber, I'd rather have my personal content available to me on my iPhone or MBP. I get the whole "Cloud" computing thing, but I would tend to not rely on it all that much.
I'll handle my own content, thank you....
It's also a big reason I didn't get a 2nd gen Apple TV... no storage... oh well, I am probably in the minority on this, or maybe I'm a control freak, but the limited rental times, and the subscription based content doesn't appeal to me at all.
 
This looks pretty neat; does it have a limited library size (like mspot, etc.)?

I'll try downloading when I get home from work tonite.

bradleyt78 said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148a Safari/6533.18.5)

The Audiogalaxy app does this pretty well... I sync my 30 GB+ music collection to my 16 GB iPhone 3GS. Works flawlessly over WiFi or 3G. Also, it's free. Sometimes I wonder why I just paid for another year of MobileMe. A few awesome things better be added to the service this year...
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Mixed about this

Considering a lot of carriers are nix'ing unlimited data - that would hinder a lot of people. An average song is 3mb-7mb each. That does not included the back and forth communication required to keep the connection communicating.

Also, don't get rid of the sync via cable option. It is a lot quicker to sync via cable than over the air. For example, at home - I would just hook it up to my laptop and be done in a couple of minutes.

Other than the carrier bandwith issue - I would still do 90% of syncing at my home or take my entire library with me. most churches, especially rural ones either do not have internet - or it is not broadband due to being out in the country beyond city limits.
 
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