If you’re one of those people with hundreds of gigabytes of music on their computer and you’re getting sick of swapping over tracks on your iPhone, then maybe it’s time to take a look at a service like Dot.Tunes. It’s a web server that publishes your entire iTunes library online, so that anybody with the right password (I’m assuming for legal reasons that would be you and only you!) can access them from wherever there’s internet access. Give them twenty bucks and you can have a custom iPhone interface making searches, playback and playlist management easy.
It’s not the only option for getting music to your iPhone – we’ve looked at several here on MY iTablet already – but it’s notable for being very broad in its functionality. It supports mp3, AAC, aiff, .wav, mpeg, mp4, and .mov files, transforming your iTunes library into an SQL database and then using your broadband connection to serve up a custom web server that you access from an AJAX front-end.
Using it from a computer is free, but if you want access on your iPhone (or on your Wii, for that matter, or even to SSL encrypt your streams) then you’ll need to pay for the relevant plugin.
[via Wired Blogs]
I’ve downloaded the application and purchased the iPhone plug-in and its really good. The iPhone interface lets me log into my iTunes right from my iPhone. I can stream all of my music and movies right on my phone. Best of all, I didnt have to do anything extra to get it going on my iPhone. Once I downloaded the app, and purchased the plug-in, I was able to use it right away.
Any word on how your iPhone accesses the web server? I’m kind of sceptical using it over Safari on the EDGE network :(
it actually working suprisingly good on Edge for me! I got it this week and i have been using it to listen to my podcasts while I am out walking the dog in the morning. i have been getting over hour long podcasts playing on edge fine… it does seems like movies time out. movies that play on wifi dont always load on edge that was confusing but understandeble. but i can watch som videos on edge. i am crackin out over this it is really cool.. just go to their demo server on your phone and you can see how it works.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone. It’s good to hear that at least music is relatively stable via EDGE; perhaps it was too much to hope that all video would be too!
Perhaps they could do with integrating some sort of compression plugin that recognises when you’re using EDGE and lowers video resolution on-the-fly. Not ideal for picture quality, but better than not being able to watch it at all!