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Remote iTunes Streaming to iPhone or iPod Touch?

Orng said:
What about allowing you to stream music you've already bought from the iTunes store directly from the iTunes store server?

Of course, I could store more music on my iPod than I've bought from the iTunes store, so, neato but useless.
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I have 25 years worth of CD purchases on my Mac, plus a few dozen songs from iTMS:rolleyes: Anyway, streaming from the iTMS store _might_ be legal, or maybe not. And Apple could stream music that I copied from _my_ CDs if the same music is on iTMS, but I would think that is most likely illegal and Apple wouldn't risk that.

But if we discuss streaming from the iTMS, then Apple _could_ create a subscription service. I suppose music subscriptions is one of those things that Steve Jobs would never, ever even consider in a million years, up to the day when he changes his mind and the service is there :D
 
and it would be cool to do that on various different computers too

i have 3 computers
and they all have itunes libraries
i would love to be able to sync them :apple:
 
8GB Justification....

iNfowarrior said:
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 ;) ) AND will soon be able to stream a 120 gigs to my phone.

Sweet.
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You think we are crying that our 16GB phones are "overkill" now? Dude we're happy about this development but it is only in the research stage for crying out loud.

Can I have some of that smoke? :p
 
25 years of music is 2 and a half million songs. I doubt you have that many. Unless you have Britney Spear's - Hit me baby one more time, duplicated 2 and a half million times.

This whole streaming music thing sounds ridiculous. If they introduce it in its own isolated product then maybe ill give it a consideration. but if they destructo any of the other ipods by relying wholly on a technology that is asking to fail, ill be livid.
 
This is great, and it was also to be expected.

If you can have the internet everywhere, why is there a need to have a copy of your files everywhere? Your files can be wherever they can be accessed on the internet, and your local device needs only be the cache.

And much of the files people currently have locally are not unique, like most commerical music, video and pretty much all software. They only need to be stored once somewhere and the device could just transparently access it.

Or take photos, now I have them in iPhoto, on my iPhone, and some in my MobileMe gallery. Online galleries could also use your original copies if they were to be in the cloud.

The data storage in the cloud doesn't have to be centralized (like Google or your own PC), because one of the great things about the internet is sharing. We are sharing processing power already (think Folding at Home). There's no reason we shouldn't be able to share hard disk space too in a give-and-take system, much like FON does with bandwidth.

Of course speed concerns come into play, but the system could intelligently prefetch data you've recently used (on any device, because these details are of course also stored on a centralized place).
 
elmateo487 said:
25 years of music is 2 and a half million songs. I doubt you have that many. Unless you have Britney Spear's - Hit me baby one more time, duplicated 2 and a half million times.
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I'm quite sure he means that he has music purchased over a span of 25 years, not 25 years worth of music in his iTunes playlist.
 
Meh, given Apples track record lately of half baked implementations, I bet they will restrict it to your library of music only. No movies or TV shows. :rolleyes:
 
man, I've been talking about that for years. Finally, they'll come up with something (I wish).
 
This is a logical step to make. I wonder though what network considerations are being made. If everyone used 3G (or next gen network) for all their movie watching and music playing that could definitely cause congestion with today's ATT 3G.
 
I'm sure for many people this would be useful, but I am more than happy with my current iPod at the moment.

For me personally, I don't leave my iMac on when I'm not using it, and I wouldn't wish to, even if a sort of half-state, as has been suggested.

I want to switch my iMac off, take my iPod and go out with my music in my pocket, without having to worry about connecting to anything.

And as has also been mentioned previously, this certainly isnt feasible in the UK at the moment, everything is incredibly slow, even on 3G.

Maybe for the future, but not any time soon.
 
As long as I have my iPod Classic, I have no interest in this idea. The Classic is truly portable and self-contained and has more disk space than I'm likely to use in my lifetime. Why would I want the hassle of always needing to find an available wifi network? Or have to leave a home system up constantly? Plus, I already have a Touch and you know how fast the battery drains when wifi is on continuously?
 
Man and I was thinking all along of creating a PTPP VPN connection back to my DD-WRT router and connecting to my music library stored on my Buffalo Linkstation. Hmmmm now this sounds just as interesting.
 
They'll never do it. Major incentive to upgrade hardware would be gone. I already do this via Remote Buddy and it works pretty well, but I can't see Apple releasing iTunes streaming this way. If they did this their mobile hardware sales would plummet, and least after an initial bump. I have bought new iPods and iPhones just for more storage, nothing else.
 
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I have to say this is a sort of pie in the sky for me. Not so much for music but more so for movies/tv shows. I have seriously been researching the slingbox just for use with my apple TV/iPhone. If Apple can do their own version that plays nicely with all our media via the 3G network and our home servers it could be truly amazing.

Many phones/computers have this ability now via the slingbox so I'm hoping it's just a matter of time before it's on the iPhone. But if Apple does it their way with a Apple Remote type application then I'm all about it.

Here's to hoping...
 
I've been talking about this for YEARS

This is the future of mobile media players. ALL your media, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, SOME internal storage for when you don't have a data connection, and wireless access to your home library.

Awesome.
 
splintah said:
i have 3 computers
and they all have itunes libraries
i would love to be able to sync them :apple:
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What's wrong with just streaming?

Anyways... if you really want to sync them... you can go into finder, connect the computers together, and then go into the music folder and drag and drop them... it's mostly automatic... only takes a few seconds to get it started and then when it's done it'll take a few more seconds to drag the songs into your iTunes library.
 
www.simplifymedia.com already does this.

I am in the 2.0 beta for iPhone and it works magnificently on 3G.

Yet somehow their app hasnt been approved in the App Store

I wonder why...

I use this to avoid having to have any music on my Macbook pro as I can just stream it from home and even have friends have access to it to stream it.


Simplify Media
 
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