Streaming TO the iPhone

[eschoeller]

I have found so many articles regarding streaming music FROM the iphone. While that’s great, I’d like to stream music from mt-daapd to the iphone. Is anyone doing this?

Thanks!

[Mr.Gil]

I also wanna know if this is possible, with the current media player on iphone ?

[rpedde]

@Mr.Gil wrote:

I also wanna know if this is possible, with the current media player on iphone ?

Telekinesis is the only app right now that I know that does anything like that.

— Ron

[Anonymous]

The built-in music player on the iPhone/touch doesn’t look for “Shared Libraries” (via the DAAP protocol) like the iTunes desktop app does. Hopefully that’s something Apple will add in the near future. If/when that ever happens, our devices should be able to stream from a sharing iTunes or Firefly or whatever. Maybe someone will write a homebrew app for jailbroken devices in the meantime. Or maybe when Apple releases their developer SDK next year someone will get working on it.

There are quite a few strategies to access your music though, all of which involve running a webserver on the computer, then you connect to that from MobileSafari on the iPhone/touch. So it’s certainly possible… it really comes down to how nicely the webpage is displayed, and if it’s pages are customized for MobileSafari on the iPhone/touch display.

telekinesis – iPhone remote is one, as mentioned above.
http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/

Here are other “homebrew” tips, activating it yourself via Web sharing:
http://embraceware.com/blog/2007/09/21/out-of-the-box-itunes-streaming-to-your-iphone/
http://pixelcity.com/iphone-streaming-music/

The free SlimServer has an iPhone/touch skin on the way that’s looking great.
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=245729#post245729

There is also the (now) free dotTunes, along with it’s free artwork plugin. But to get the iPhone or iPod touch-friendly skin, you’ve got to shell out $20 for one of the plug-ins.
http://www.dottunes.net/

Wired blog article about it:
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/08/stream-your-itu.html

Those last two are probably the slickest current solutions for iPhoners.

Here are more, similar solutions:
http://tversity.com/home/ (Windows only)
http://www.simplifymedia.com/download.html (Cross Platform)
http://www.mediamaster.com/ (Cross platform)
…but I’m not sure how well their output displays on an iPhone/touch.

[sonichouse]

Have you tried the FirePlay ?
http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?t=6863

It is currently limited to mp3 files, but there are plans to maybe transcode other formats.

[Anonymous]

@sonichouse wrote:

Have you tried the FirePlay ?

MobileSafari on the iPhone/touch can’t handle Flash, which FirePlay seems to rely on, so that’s not a solution.

[sonichouse]

Sorry, wasn’t aware of that limitation 😳

[Anonymous]

Here are two more:

http://www.orb.com/orb/

http://webot.com/ has an iPhone/touch skin.
http://gigaom.com/2007/09/07/webot/

[eschoeller]

I am thinking about investigating this:

http://www.simplifymedia.com/

They have a native iPhone application. I would have to run yet-another music server though … and I have heard that it down samples to 96khz … so this also may not be an option for me.. But it does allow streaming while you’re anywhere as long as you’re on a wifi network, which is kinda cool.

All I really want is a DAAP client. If I want to tunnel the DAAP over ssh so I can listen remotely I could, but I just don’t want to buy a roku when I could use the iPhone instead.

I’m not that demanding i swear!

I’m crossing my fingers for something to happen once the SDK is out, but if anyone hears of anything let me know!

[rpedde]

@eschoeller wrote:

I am thinking about investigating this:

http://www.simplifymedia.com/

They have a native iPhone application. I would have to run yet-another music server though … and I have heard that it down samples to 96khz … so this also may not be an option for me.. But it does allow streaming while you’re anywhere as long as you’re on a wifi network, which is kinda cool.

All I really want is a DAAP client. If I want to tunnel the DAAP over ssh so I can listen remotely I could, but I just don’t want to buy a roku when I could use the iPhone instead.

I’m not that demanding i swear!

I’m crossing my fingers for something to happen once the SDK is out, but if anyone hears of anything let me know!

Someone just contributed some objc classess for connection to firefly. I’ll have them in svn shortly. I have an iPhone myself, a firefly server (or six) I want to connect to, and now some prewritten obj-c classes… so….

But then, my time really has been severely limited as of late.

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