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The site is not arranged particularly logically. From your Mac, you'll go through a simple sign up process. Then just go to http://www.lala.com/#downloads and download their Music Mover. After the Mover does its thing, you can go to lala.com from any online computer and click on 'My Collection' to listen to your music remotely.
Peace be with you.
The site is not arranged particularly logically. From your Mac, you'll go through a simple sign up process. Then just go to http://www.lala.com/#downloads and download their Music Mover. After the Mover does its thing, you can go to lala.com from any online computer and click on 'My Collection' to listen to your music remotely.
Peace be with you.
Not everyone upgrades phones every year and/or buys extra memory devices, but MobileMe is $99 yearly. Maybe Apple did some research and found more people will pay for MobileMe that would have bought base memory anyways. Just a thought.
No doubt...glad I dropped $8 on that App...Thanks Simplify Media, Thanks!
My feelings too.
One of my favorite apps, and made it easy to justify not getting more space on a device because I could always get to my library if needed too.
This just sucks.
I understand stuff happens, but they did not even consider any kind of option to make this viable says something weird is going on.
Also why is the comment section closed on their blog. That seems weak.
I'm not happy about this. The possibility of Apple buying their tech is only conjecture. The fact of the matter is that this product is going away. I had it when it was free, paid the upgrade price, and bought Simplify Photo to support them. This is a lousy move on their part.
There were a lot of problems with the service as well as it being slow, but I have a large library and it was one of my favorite apps.
Are there any alternatives to this on the App Store?
There were a lot of problems with the service as well as it being slow, but I have a large library and it was one of my favorite apps.
Are there any alternatives to this on the App Store?
Try jukefly.com. You just install this small music server - really easy to setup and you can access all your music remotely through the website. And best of all their iphone app is free
Try Cinq for iPhone
If you liked Simplify, you should really try Cinq. It's much faster, and easier to setup. They have photo synching right now, and it's really cool that when you take a photo it immediately gets saved at home. I hear they're adding music and video soon.
Check it out. There's a good video on their site too - http://cinq.tunaverse.com/
If you liked Simplify, you should really try Cinq. It's much faster, and easier to setup. They have photo synching right now, and it's really cool that when you take a photo it immediately gets saved at home. I hear they're adding music and video soon.
Check it out. There's a good video on their site too - http://cinq.tunaverse.com/
Jukefly looks good but I don't think you can stream your own music from a mac. It looks like there's a Windows requirement.
Kinda getting sick of this whole well we want you to pay and we might support it . I Mean this isn't the first time i've been burned by some greedy company. They yank,pull apps from the store or leave them up so you pay for something that works on a lower firmware,drop support. So i won't be buying from them again, i find this app useless now anyways gg ripoffs
btw i blame apple for letting this go on. They need some type of contract system if you are going to charge for an app to support,refund, or iuno
btw i blame apple for letting this go on. They need some type of contract system if you are going to charge for an app to support,refund, or iuno
Simplify Media Yanks iPhone Apps, Changing Focus
This is all speculation, but what you say suggests Apple may have bought just the technology.
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This is all speculation, but what you say suggests Apple may have bought just the technology.
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That wasn't my experience at all, I almost always got the near full bitrate of my music streamed while on 3G or wifi. When on Edge, the quality dropped some, but it was tolerable.
I'm disappointed in Simplify as well. I've used and enjoyed this app since I bought my first iPhone (3GS) last year. I think it's one of the best apps I've bought. Their app interface is very clean and intuitive. A few months ago, I worked with their support team on a couple of issues I had. They were very responsive and would give me some technical explanations on how their system worked.
I even inquired about them adding video capability to their product and was asked if I would be willing to participate in their beta program when/if this functionality is added. Guess I should no longer look forward to that.
Guess it's time to start looking at the alternatives.
innovative...
and was a great way to manage a large library. Worth the money spent.
Hopefully they are in on the next round of Apple's launch. But I'm not altogether sure Apple is merely paying them to go away while it rolls out it's integrated solution via Lala.
and was a great way to manage a large library. Worth the money spent.
Hopefully they are in on the next round of Apple's launch. But I'm not altogether sure Apple is merely paying them to go away while it rolls out it's integrated solution via Lala.
My thoughs exactly-I'm really bummed that this product is pulled off the market and those of us who bought their products will no longer have updated.
To think that Simplify Media 2 and Simplify Photo just came out several months ago...
and by "better" do you mean "not the same thing at all, with many more limitations?"
lala:
can't listen to my friends libraries
i have to take the extra step of uploading all my songs to the cloud? and i'd want to do that... why?
so, no.. it's not the same thing, and it doesn't do it better. because it doesn't do it at all.
Maybe this has nothing to do with Apple, perhaps the big bad record boys shut them down...
Did you see this article on their "about us" page?
http://www.simplifymedia.com/dmca.html
Maybe the record companies wanted them to pay royalties for music? I mean, it's one thing if I was streaming MY MUSIC COLLECTION (but then again my.mp3.com got shut down for that too!) - but simplify allows other people to listen to your music, which to me could be infringement, so maybe their shutdown has nothing to do with Apple, Lala, or anything remotely related.
Did you see this article on their "about us" page?
http://www.simplifymedia.com/dmca.html
Maybe the record companies wanted them to pay royalties for music? I mean, it's one thing if I was streaming MY MUSIC COLLECTION (but then again my.mp3.com got shut down for that too!) - but simplify allows other people to listen to your music, which to me could be infringement, so maybe their shutdown has nothing to do with Apple, Lala, or anything remotely related.
There is no need to reverse engineer what they did. There's about 100 apps/applications that do similar things. What they did differently was they used a proxy to make it so it "just worked" on just about any network (instead of sending your songs from your computer directly to your iphone, they went through their server). This is great for setup, since it means you run the application and it works.... but it doesn't scale well at all, costs lots of money to maintain, and means when they turn off their proxy servers, you're screwed.
Anyone can easily (relatively) set up proxies to accomplish the same thing but it's just not going to be sustainable without charging some sort of subscription because bandwidth isn't free (and good sounding audio uses a lot of bandwidth). And with a proxy you're using an equal amount of upload and download bandwidth. So it's potentially 2x as expensive as what Pandora does for streaming (they do it only one way).
The fact that they had plans to do video would have made it even more impossible to sustain, but maybe the "relaunch" solves this problem in some elegant way? Or maybe they'll start charging a subscription? Nobody really knows...
thanks for ruining my favorite program
I NEED Simplify because I can't fit my media on my iPhone (with the crappy hard drive space) and still allow room for all my apps and photos. I wonder if Google is behind this...
I NEED Simplify because I can't fit my media on my iPhone (with the crappy hard drive space) and still allow room for all my apps and photos. I wonder if Google is behind this...
I'm not exactly sure that's how it works. From my understanding, their servers were setup to host the list of music you're hosting and what IP it is hosted from, as well as what IP your client/iphone is assigned. I don't believe the actual music data was streamed through their servers. Regardless, the way they designed their system, their servers were necessary.
I wish it were possible for someone to reconfigure the client app to be able to manually point the client to a DynDns address or IP specifically so we did not have to rely on their servers for the initial handshake.
I tried out JukeFly, and while it works, the interface is crap compared to Simplify. That's what I like about Simplify so much, it has a very logical and easy-to-use interface.
I hate th is app. Your computer having to be on and connected makes it worthless. The cloud is the future.
With "the cloud" you are always at the mercy of someone else. In this particular case, simplifymedia decided to pull the plug, and you're screwed. If you stream directly from your machine, you control your own destiny.