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Remote iTunes Streaming to iPhone or iPod Touch?
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You may be right about the wedgie, but it's also because of a thread I started yesterday. He's all bent up about this subject already. He feels that people who want to access their iTunes library remotely (through the iPhone), "must have really messy/cluttered houses". Pretty funny.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/537884/
Sounds great, but seems like it would only be feasible using cloud computing. There is also no way ATT can handle the bandwith unless we're talking 4G. And with Mobile Me having its ups and downs, I'd say this is quite a ways off into the future. Would be great though to buy a device with x amount of GB of cloud computing versus traditional storage. Ability to upgrade at any time or no need to pay for storage at all would be incredible. Imagine the form factor of a device with no hard drive!
dot tunes
dottunes.net - essentially runs a music server on your mac. You can stream over your local net (wifi or wired) or over the Internet. Plugin's are available for iphone, ipod touch, wii, PSP, palm os .... etc etc.
I have a few ipod docks around the house where I don't have an airport express. I just drop in the ipod and listen to my itunes music. It's not as seamless as it could be, though. Sort of like how "Signal" is as a remote control verses Apple's own Remote app.
dottunes.net - essentially runs a music server on your mac. You can stream over your local net (wifi or wired) or over the Internet. Plugin's are available for iphone, ipod touch, wii, PSP, palm os .... etc etc.
I have a few ipod docks around the house where I don't have an airport express. I just drop in the ipod and listen to my itunes music. It's not as seamless as it could be, though. Sort of like how "Signal" is as a remote control verses Apple's own Remote app.
as cool as this seems, it would require me to leave my computer on 24/7, which seems impractical for vacations or things like that.
Well, if your vacation is going to be longer than a few days, you might as well bring a laptop... and otherwise, you could just leave the laptop at home...you'd have internet access via iPod Touch or iPhone already, and if you leave yout laptop on, they don't draw more than ~30-45 watts usually. You wouldn't rack up a huge energy bill by just leaving it on... people with desktops, it's a bit harder to justify, but if you got a small model with a new CPU and a [not huge-fat-power hungry-8000/9000 series nVidia] GPU, it's not that bad to leave that on either for a few days. Not even Vista wouldn't be able to survive that.
Oh please! Get a grip. Actually the first incarnation of iTunes library sharing allowed for WAN connections. Apple quickly crippled it to LAN only after the record labels whined and moaned, as usual.
SimplifyMedia did not invent this. Streaming music over the internet has been around a long time. Even Apple has had a *free* streaming server for many years now; QuickTime/Darwin Streaming Server. It was this technology that was incorporated into iTunes a few versions back. Apple even gives away *free* live internet video/audio broadcasting software; QuickTime Broadcaster
And Slim Server has been doing something like it for years. Hell with the iPeng theme, I already have essentially this functionality on my Touch. 12GBs of the music I listen to most, and the ability to stream the remainder of my library from a home PC whenever I have WiFi access. If I had an iPhone, I'd probably shave the onboard music library in half to make way for more films, photos, apps and data.
Access to all of your music when even 32GB doesn't cut it (which allowing for a few films at ~1.5GB each, and some photos, and app data, taking maybe another combine GB, is really not that unlikely).
Yea.. the SimplifyMedia comment was just ridiculous.
At any rate, and I'm not sure if it's been mentioned, I've been doing this with Telekinesis for roughly a year now. It's my main purpose for using Telekinesis, actually. I'm looking forward, if this is true, to seeing how Apple would implement this functionality.
Streaming my music via Telekinesis has always worked effortlessly, by the way. And now with the 3G iPhone, it's much more usable.
At any rate, and I'm not sure if it's been mentioned, I've been doing this with Telekinesis for roughly a year now. It's my main purpose for using Telekinesis, actually. I'm looking forward, if this is true, to seeing how Apple would implement this functionality.
Streaming my music via Telekinesis has always worked effortlessly, by the way. And now with the 3G iPhone, it's much more usable.
More storage
I do NOT want to stream. I think they should put there efforts & resources into MORE, and CHEAPER storage.
Give us a 64gb iPhone next year for the same cost!
I do NOT want to stream. I think they should put there efforts & resources into MORE, and CHEAPER storage.
Give us a 64gb iPhone next year for the same cost!
My guess is that speculation here about Apple hosting songs on Mobile Me will probably come to naught for the same reason. The labels bitched pretty hard about Justin Roberson's mp3 locker thing. If there is any risk that Mobile Me accounts could be exploited to gain access to people's libraries, that leaves Apple with a huge potential liability. I doubt the labels would go for it, and I doubt Apple would either.
On a separate front, a few million iPhone/iPod Touch users hammering the hell out of their DSL connections will probably see ISPs port throttling this service into submission pretty damn quickly.
I do NOT want to stream. I think they should put there efforts & resources into MORE, and CHEAPER storage.
Give us a 64gb iPhone next year for the same cost!
I'd largely agree with you, but then I don't feel like replacing a perfectly good 16GB Touch with a 32 or 64GB model when for no extra cost I could extend the utility of the one I have.
Your circumstances may be somewhat unusual, but the vast majority of iPhone owners would benefit from such a service, as most people spend more time on the ground than they do in the air. Apple will put their resources into whatever gains the best bang for the buck for their customers, and by extension themselves.
this would be amazingly great.
an idea i posted at one point on apple discussions a few months ago. this would be useful.
esp for the low capacity iphones.
and good with an assortment of large and expanding musical libraries, would be fantastic.
a mobile personalized radio station in the sense, being able to manage remote playlists and functionality like that would be quite interesting andid definitely like that.
an idea i posted at one point on apple discussions a few months ago. this would be useful.
esp for the low capacity iphones.
and good with an assortment of large and expanding musical libraries, would be fantastic.
a mobile personalized radio station in the sense, being able to manage remote playlists and functionality like that would be quite interesting andid definitely like that.
All I want is some way to stream music from my iPhone to any Airport Express. Is that so hard?
But on the same principle mentioned, I also agree with a previous poster. It's all well and good extending a current product to make their customers happier; but theoretically, how could they possibly then upgrade their iPods?
At the moment, it is largely based on getting more memory into the same size shell as the previous iPod (for example, the current 80Gb iPod Classic being the same size as the previous 30Gb iPod).
If memory was literally no object, they could only really enhance things such as the design of the hardware and the UI, of which quite a lot of people won't necessarily be interested in; resulting in a potential loss in sales for their new products.
It's different people doing this. The streaming feature would be implemented by software engineers at Apple while "more and cheaper storage" would have to come from the people at Samsung. So one does not come at the expense of the other.
Many people have music libraries much larger then 16GB. Mine for example is around 200GB. Streaming would allow those with larger libraries not to have to choose which play lists to keep on their iPods.
LOL....
Seems like Apple'll patent anything as long as its allowed!
P.S.: Nice avatar!
Thanks on the avatar. It's a scaled down version of my attempt at creating animations. It took an unbelieveable amount of time and is pretty crude--going through the process gave me a lot of respect for people who can actually do this for real.
re the patent, hopefully this is just a defensive patent application. Of course what's a defensive patent today could become an offensive patent in the future...
Interesting logical jump there. Where was the assumption created that he bought 100,000 songs per year?