I'm trying to help a friend find a cheap solution for playing digital music on a iPad mini without a computer.
She has over 300gb of music in Apple Lossless, AAC and MP3 formats on a portable hard drive and a BOSE Soundwave Mini Blu Tooth speaker. She also has an iPad mini and Wi-Fi, but no longer has a PC or laptop.
Obviously the iPad can't store a library of this size, and I don't think they can read large portable hard drives, but I was wondering if the iPad could be used to stream the music from wireless storage of some kind. I think that a Synology NAS or Time Machine might work, but hope something cheaper like these might work.
RAVPower Wireless Filehub:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/RAVPower-Fi...UTF8&colid=LTTDI2NER5I0&coliid=I17HMDLMTDUNN9
EasAcc Wireless USB Reader:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/EasyAcc®-Wi...UTF8&colid=LTTDI2NER5I0&coliid=I1PXOD6PZW3HW6
I don't own an iPad, but believe that iTunes might have problems reading from an external device, but hope that a combination of some other app and the above might work. If the app can directly access the iTunes library structure so much the better, as there has been a lot of manual work done to remove duplicates, tidy up incorrectly tagged tracks and manually add missing artwork.
Very interested to hear your thoughts / experiences.
She has over 300gb of music in Apple Lossless, AAC and MP3 formats on a portable hard drive and a BOSE Soundwave Mini Blu Tooth speaker. She also has an iPad mini and Wi-Fi, but no longer has a PC or laptop.
Obviously the iPad can't store a library of this size, and I don't think they can read large portable hard drives, but I was wondering if the iPad could be used to stream the music from wireless storage of some kind. I think that a Synology NAS or Time Machine might work, but hope something cheaper like these might work.
RAVPower Wireless Filehub:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/RAVPower-Fi...UTF8&colid=LTTDI2NER5I0&coliid=I17HMDLMTDUNN9
EasAcc Wireless USB Reader:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/EasyAcc®-Wi...UTF8&colid=LTTDI2NER5I0&coliid=I1PXOD6PZW3HW6
I don't own an iPad, but believe that iTunes might have problems reading from an external device, but hope that a combination of some other app and the above might work. If the app can directly access the iTunes library structure so much the better, as there has been a lot of manual work done to remove duplicates, tidy up incorrectly tagged tracks and manually add missing artwork.
Very interested to hear your thoughts / experiences.
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