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Remote iTunes Streaming to iPhone or iPod Touch?
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Think of the bandwidth!
No way any Canadian iPhone user will be using this anytime soon
Not with the current data rates, anyway.
No way any Canadian iPhone user will be using this anytime soon
Not with the current data rates, anyway.
Depends on how much music and other media you have, really.
For the longest time I was more than happy with 8 GBs. It never bothered me that I couldn't add my whole library -- you don't listen to the whole thing anyway -- I just kept my favorite songs and albums available and rotated content when I wanted something fresh. The iPhone has made me more interested in music than ever, though, and now with Pandora my collection is only growing more. 16 GBs is a comfortable amount for now, but I suppose I'll want 32 GBs down the road.
Sure, if this is done -- and Apple could do this very well for all existing devices over whatever medium they wish -- you could stream your music to your iPhone, but what about those cases when you don't want an extra drain on your battery? It is great to have the choice.
It would be really cool to have remote access to your photo library. I don't add all of my photos -- there are far too many -- and rarely access them. But when I do access them I often-times don't have the photo I want available. That would free up space for some new tunes.
If you've got the 6 GB plan you'll be fine. People seem to underestimate just how hard it is to actually use that much on a mobile device. You'd have to be streaming music for many hours every day.Think of the bandwidth!
No way any Canadian iPhone user will be using this anytime soon
Flip it around...
I want it the other way around. Let me walk into somebody's home and stream music from my phone to their computer or Airport Express. There is real value to that. Then I could really eliminate my library from my laptop, since I already carry it in my pocket.
With this home-based streaming, what happens when you lose cellular service?What if you are on a plane?
The only way this makes sense is to augment the large capacity of these phones. For those who have tens of thousands of songs, or the whackjobs who refuse to compress their libraries, they can copy a subset of songs directly to the phone, and stream the rest.
Cutting the storage to half a gigabyte would be a mistake.
I want it the other way around. Let me walk into somebody's home and stream music from my phone to their computer or Airport Express. There is real value to that. Then I could really eliminate my library from my laptop, since I already carry it in my pocket.
With this home-based streaming, what happens when you lose cellular service?What if you are on a plane?
The only way this makes sense is to augment the large capacity of these phones. For those who have tens of thousands of songs, or the whackjobs who refuse to compress their libraries, they can copy a subset of songs directly to the phone, and stream the rest.
Cutting the storage to half a gigabyte would be a mistake.
Hmmm... the MMe proposition is interesting! Transfer all your data in a "special folder" in iDisk and access and edit them through your iPhone!
Good luck trying to do this over current phone networks. I'm in the UK. We're a few years off this being useful.
btw. if you have your own web server you can already do this in some fashion.
btw. if you have your own web server you can already do this in some fashion.
I suppose this will work all right if you've got a fast connection on both ends and are playing a playlist without fast-forwarding or rewinding. Otherwise, be prepared for low sound quality (due to additional compression being applied) and/or waiting a minute for it to buffer every time you start a new song that it didn't already know was coming up. It's a good idea, but I suspect it will be kind of annoying to use given current technology.
Maybe, but there's more to store than just music. ie videos, pictures, applications, etc.
I think you could do this today with a current iPhone but in a not so seamless manner. If you were to put all your MP3 files on your mac in a directory and export it with Apache or FTP and open up the right ports on your fire wall then from the iPhone you could browse the list of MP3 files and download one or more to the phone. As long as the iPhone runs Safari it should work. The problem is that (1) setting this up requires more technical skill than most users have and (2) it is hardly "seemless".
What Apple's idea does it make it easy to use. But moving files over a network is hardly a new idea. Moving MP3 files over the network is hardly a new idea either
About streaming.. Yes there is software you could run now that will allow this. Many people have set up their own streaming servers. Google "icecast"
What Apple's idea does it make it easy to use. But moving files over a network is hardly a new idea. Moving MP3 files over the network is hardly a new idea either
About streaming.. Yes there is software you could run now that will allow this. Many people have set up their own streaming servers. Google "icecast"
That would be kind of useful, but I'll point out that if you're actually in their house, it's not that difficult to just hook up a cable.
when i mentioned WIFI networks..I am referring to the millions of ipod touch owners who obvi cant use 3G networks. I have no need for iPhone..3G is too slow for me. I am use to not having internet on the go...and i would only want it when its fast.
Also..guys...this is a patent application filed in the past. Calm down. I seriously think some of you think this is being released next week or something.
Also..guys...this is a patent application filed in the past. Calm down. I seriously think some of you think this is being released next week or something.
Could you be more specific to whats slow in iPhone considering you yourself have mentioned you dont use net while on road!
I've been shouting it to the uncaring wind since they announced iWork 08 and the iPod Touch last year. Before that, I submitted the suggestion through dotMac a few times over the past couple years, although initially it was "If dotMac added web functionality like Google Docs, I'd have less cognitive dissonance about renewing every year"
I mean, the music thing is great, but for me, I prefer a smaller music selection on my iPod anyway. Three or four playlists, about 4 gigs of music to my 25 gigs at home. Just let me edit an iWork doc!
You are seriously bringing some great ideas on board..... I mean if you can have high end calendars and contacts as web apps, why not bare basic doc editor, presentation and spreadsheet creator?
Aren't there rumors or something that Apple is already making something like this? Like an option to boot any Mac into Front Row in half a second?
These guys have a similar app, not sure how it works - I thought about it; but then again I also thought about the legality of streaming copyrighted music. Of course, it does have its uses. I have not tried it, but was thinking about it (if I ever have the time)
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/
Thanks, I appreciate that. But why isn't it screamingly obvious?
While this is true, I think we are all hoping to live in a world where cables are things that stay attached to stationary objects at home or the office, and we don't have to have a media bag full of cables every time we go to a friends house.
I almost bit, but instead, I'm betting on a minor industry shakeup in the next year or two. More carrier competition coming, plus advancing technology means that Rogers will have to make those data plans reasonable. I don't need an iphone right now, so I'm going to wait it out with my iPT and PAYG.
And if not, no problem. I actually kind of like the PAYG phone, and I get most of the iPhone goodies on my iPT. Maybe in a year and a half I'll be able to get an iPhone at a reasonable rate from a new provider, and I'll be happy with that, too.
LOL @ all who bought 16 gb iPhones.
Saw this coming a mile away, knew 16 was overkill, got the color I wanted AND saved a hundred bucks, (which then bought me hundred worth of apps
Sweet.
Dude, this is speculation resulting from a patent Apple filed. Do you know how many patents Apple has filed that were never seen in any of their products? I'm excited about the possibilities this patent application could provide too, but I think your LOLing is a little premature, especially if TomTom and Garmin type apps come out, taking GBs of space.
LOL @ all who bought 16 gb iPhones.
Saw this coming a mile away, knew 16 was overkill, got the color I wanted AND saved a hundred bucks, (which then bought me hundred worth of apps
Sweet.
Overkill? It's still a touch too little! Each of my ripped DVD's are 1GB each. if I wanted to throw some movies, shows and podcasts my 16GB is still pretty full even without my music on it.
Not sure how well (or even if) video will stream but I'd rather have it on my iPhone and stream just the music.
LOL @ all who bought 16 gb iPhones.
Saw this coming a mile away, knew 16 was overkill, got the color I wanted AND saved a hundred bucks, (which then bought me hundred worth of apps
Sweet.
Really? LOL?
This is just a patent filing. This won't be implimented for a long time, if at all. Think of the battery power it would require. Think of the bandwidth it would require. I don't think the AT&T is going to be happy with their 3G network being slowed down to a crawl. The network is choppy enough as it is.
Enjoy that hundred bucks you saved.
What I want is for this to go the other way. I'd like to be able to play the songs on my iPod wirelessly on someone else's computer. So say you visit your friends house and then you pop open iTunes on their computer and play a new album you got or something. Now that would be a feature I'd like to see.