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[Q] Transfer songs from iTunes?

I saw a friend transfer songs from a playlist right to his Sony Erickson cell phone. Is there a plug-in or something similar for our phones?
Paul

Paul_Days said:
I saw a friend transfer songs from a playlist right to his Sony Erickson cell phone. Is there a plug-in or something similar for our phones?
Paul
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Check out CNET downloads. Theres a few apps that I've download to hack the securities on iTunes. They should have something that would help u out.

i would look to iTunes Agent's generic player profile

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OK Got exactly what I wanted, and I guess what all of you are searching for:
Salling Software - Media Sync (PC and Mac)
Will Sync music from Itunes to a Windows Mobile Phone
Freeware, but paid works faster!
Paul

Streaming media from Windows Media Center 7

I didn't see it posted anywhere here, but if you install the Twonky DLNA client, you can stream every piece of media that is on a Windows 7 Media Center PC. I just installed it, and watched several movies, listened to music, and could see all my photos. Didn't do anything at all to the Win 7 box. It just worked...

Cool thanks for sharing. So many projects I could be doing... where do I start? Ha!

DudeInMyrtleBeach said:
I didn't see it posted anywhere here, but if you install the Twonky DLNA client, you can stream every piece of media that is on a Windows 7 Media Center PC. I just installed it, and watched several movies, listened to music, and could see all my photos. Didn't do anything at all to the Win 7 box. It just worked...
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Where did you get the client? I can only see twonky.

It called "Twonky Mobile". It's in the Market.

DudeInMyrtleBeach said:
It called "Twonky Mobile". It's in the Market.
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Ok, then I have downloaded the right one. Are you running anything on win7 media center at all? My tablet can't find my window 7 share.

Twonky didn't look for Windows Shares -- it connected via DLNA. I don't have my content shared via SMB shares on my HTPC. Twonky saw the HTPC, connected to it, and lets me browse via DLNA...
I'm running vegan on my gtab. Don't know if that matters or not...

Twonky
Dudeinmyrtlebeach...do you have an xbox or other device setup to stream to? The mediacenter PC might not run the server if no extenders are setup.

Make sure u have wmp with the option to stream over the network. Only then u will see your pc in twonky

Thanks. I will try that.
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XBOX... I'll bet that's what it is.. I have 2 of 'em set up as extenders. I also have a couple of other tablets (Motion LE's) running Windows 7 that connect to the media center pc.
Maybe that's what it is...

... and I just tried Twonky on my Droid X, and it didn't see my HTPC... I have no idea what gives. Rebooting the X...

DudeInMyrtleBeach said:
... and I just tried Twonky on my Droid X, and it didn't see my HTPC... I have no idea what gives. Rebooting the X...
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Have u checked the allow streaming option on windows media player? I had to let it finish the library scanning before i could see my htpc on gtablet

It works fine on my gtab. Doesn't work at all on the X... No idea...

If you don't like Twonky, there are other options as well.
Upnplay is really good and free as well.
2player is a dlna/upnp client but more focused on music. I like that it can play Windows Media Playlists.
Eyecontrol and Andromote are dlna players that also allow you to control where your media is playing to - so for example you can use it to tell your PC to play something on your TV, or your phone to play something to your radio - etc. etc. etc.
Great DLNA or Streaming software examples are TVersity, which you can put on your PC - share everything you want to share to and it will automatically convert the file if necessary to whatever you're using to stream from it.
PlayOn is like Tversity but the free part allows you to stream only from your local media collection. If you pay for a license, it allows you to watch Hulu/Netflix etc. on your DLNA client. I don't know if this works.
Orb is like a mashup of Tversity and Upnplay in that it streams almost anything to your device - the main difference is that you can achieve the functionality of doing it through the internet at default, whereas the other products are geared primarily as in-network solutions.
Twonky is finicky at best. I have it on my Mytouch 4G and sometimes it works great while at others it stops randomly. This is what lead me to looking for alternatives.
Good Luck.

Twonky
Thanks for the tip, Dude... it is working now, I can see my pics/music and videos... now my desktop is useful again (as a media server for my GTab!)

Orb Fc for me. Vegan 5.1

seymour_butts said:
Have u checked the allow streaming option on windows media player? I had to let it finish the library scanning before i could see my htpc on gtablet
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I have done that on Windows Media Player which has all of my libraray in it, but still can't see the list using TWonky or other DLNA player. I have enabled WMP to stream, and still don't see any libraries.

Best App (Currently) for streaming locally stored pc videos to android devices

Hey everyone-
I've been doing a bunch of searching lately for an easy-to-use and convenient application for streaming videos from my pc to android device (like airplay for the iphone). And I can't seem to find one specific app that makes it simple and easy, they all seem to be a pain in the ass. I know this question has been asked before, but not for a couple months, so what in your opinion is the best application and/or method for streaming content from a pc to an android device? Thanks in advance for any help.
-bobofosho123

bobofosho123 said:
Hey everyone-
I've been doing a bunch of searching lately for an easy-to-use and convenient application for streaming videos from my pc to android device (like airplay for the iphone). And I can't seem to find one specific app that makes it simple and easy, they all seem to be a pain in the ass. I know this question has been asked before, but not for a couple months, so what in your opinion is the best application and/or method for streaming content from a pc to an android device? Thanks in advance for any help.
-bobofosho123
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If you have your PC setup with the dnla server software, this place has a beta dnla client for Andoid. I saw the write up on EuroDroid.com.
http://www.skifta.com/

I tried using the Playon streaming with the mobile link. It worked ok...but I do want a nice streaming option.

VLC Remote

Doesn't VLC Remote just control whats playing on your desktop? I think the OP is looking for something to stream movies to his handset.
That aside, I love VLC Remote.

Yes, I'm looking to stream videos from my pc's hdd to my phone, in an easy way (i.e. in the same way that airvideo for the iphone does).

flinkisme said:
If you have your PC setup with the dnla server software, this place has a beta dnla client for Andoid. I saw the write up on EuroDroid.com.
http://www.skifta.com/
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And i don't have a dlna server on my pc, it's just an external hdd connected to my pc.

I use File Expert as a file manager/explorer and I mapped my computer under it's network tab, then when I select a video I use VPlayer to play it in. Works perfectly!
Every other way I tried before this required the video to download before watching, but this way I can stream any video directly.
You will need to setup your video/movies/etc folders on PC to be shared with proper permissions. Easiest to just share the whole external HDD.

ErOR22 said:
I use File Expert as a file manager/explorer and I mapped my computer under it's network tab, then when I select a video I use VPlayer to play it in. Works perfectly!
Every other way I tried before this required the video to download before watching, but this way I can stream any video directly.
You will need to setup your video/movies/etc folders on PC to be shared with proper permissions. Easiest to just share the whole external HDD.
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Thanks for the suggestion, I appreciate it.

Let me put it this way, is there anything as stupid simple as audiogalaxy for android that will do the same thing for music?

I'd definitely give RockPlayer a go. It has both hardware and software decoding and it works with TVersity!

Same way, through the file explorer. You just need to share your music on pc and connect to it.
My Desire HD came with DNLA client software and when I go into the music program I can stream in there directly from my WMP library, that's probably the easiest way but that would vary with different phones.

I use VLC Stream & Convert, though it is somewhat cumbersome to set up...
I ended up using windows task scheduler and a lot of program commands to start it with my computer all stealthy

Yeah, I've got windows media player set-up correctly with all the proper permissions and such. All of my media files are showing up, i.e. music, videos, etc, and all of my music plays fine as well. But, the one thing that won't play are ANY of my videos, which are mostly xvid-encoded .avi files, which I'm not sure skifta supports (as it uses the dlna classification). Any suggestions?

If you have a windows PC you can easily setup windows media player to stream via dlna. Just google "windows media player dlna". If you are on mac or linux, just substitute for OSX or your linux distro and the word dlna for a bunch of options. Once it's up and going you can use the dlna app mentioned earlier or if you are lucky enough to have a SGS like me, you can use Samsung All Share to stream. I have used this since I got my phone and it's working like a charm!

bobofosho123 said:
Let me put it this way, is there anything as stupid simple as audiogalaxy for android that will do the same thing for music?
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I assume you mean video since audiogalaxy is for music? And to put it bluntly, no there isn't anything as simple as that for video yet.

Is there a media app that let you play music directly from your computer?

is there a media player app that can play music directly from your computer over network?

gMote 2.0 has this feature though it is very buggy and a pain to use sometimes.

audiogalaxy
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.audiogalaxy

Depending on your device and what software is already installed on your computer, "UPnPlay" will add universal plug and play to your phone if not present, allowing you to connect to many different UPNP devices over wi-fi. This allows my Droid to connect to Windows Media player to play just about anything (audio/video) in my library. Should have been included in all 2.2 builds in my opinion.

kantbstopped519 said:
audiogalaxy
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.audiogalaxy
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Audiogalaxy for sure. Its amazing.

thanks, audio galaxy is just what i needed.

Plex is pretty good for video streaming
Audiogalaxy does audio well but is less perfect from the video streaming point of view

DLNA
I'm using J. River Media Center with the Android Gizmo app to stream media (it's free on the Market). So I can use my Desire HD as the server or client and send media anywhere in my home over wifi. Solid app but takes a bit of setting up to start.. and the Windows client is not free.

Winamp has such a feature as long as you install winamp on your system and setup it's network player it should be really easy.

hieubui25 said:
is there a media player app that can play music directly from your computer over network?
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I've tried them all. I gave up my zune since I didn't want to update it or delete music for new stuff. I'd rather have access to my music anywhere.
Audiogalaxy- first thing I tried. It didn't pick up all my music regardless of how many times I redid the library. The audio quality was ok but it was a really basic app and website.
Homepipe- useless since it only streams if the app is active. Hit home and you're sitting in silence.
Subsonic- didn't try it too long. Another basic app.
Jukefly- still using this. Love it. It installed on my htpc no problem and the app is nice outside of having to manually force close the service. Quality is adjustable by network type. It picks up my music, and adds new stuff without having to refresh the library. The Internet app is great foo. If your server is off it will still display your library but stream the audio from youtube. I highly recommend it.
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I usually just mount my music network share with cifs manager, then any app can access the files on the share.

I see that the thread is relatively old, but maybe some of the people still have their setups working.
Did you do something special to the setup on Windows, because I would like to do more or less the same, but neither my computer sees my phone nor the other way around.
I have another UPNP-server in my Wifi which can be used by my phone as well as my computer, but what I would love to do is tell my computer to play what's on the server using my phone as remote. It worked nicely with mpd and mpDroid, but I would love to have this setup also work with Win7...
Any hints?

iTunes

Anyone know the best way to sync my nexus with iTunes? I've tried double twist and I don't like it as much.

I don't use iTunes, but I hear iSyncr is pretty good.

How dare you mention that program here jus kiddin' ... i dunno never tried it

Winamp should do the trick.

On your PC:
Get the Google Music Manager program (.exe) from Google
Install it to your Windows PC
Set it up and select the option that allows Google Music to sync automatically from itunes.
On your phone:
Download Google Music app and select your gmail account.
After initial sync is finished everything in your itunes will be in the Google Music app.
They will stay synced after that.

I use iTunes agent. It does the trick.

If I use google music I won't have any issues with some of my songs not being on my phone or not being able to play if I'm not in a good data spot will I? I did some research it looks like its a good way to go about I don't have a good media library I didn't wanna sacrific all my phones memory to all music but if I had to I am willing to.

I use isyncr and it works really well it cost a few dollars but good investment and the wifi plugin is a big plus

Just saying Amazon is usually cheaper than the for-mentioned excel spreadsheet music store
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If you are on a mac try this one Easy Phone Tunes
Just create a playlist with the music you want to sync, open app, sync DONE

I use iSyncr, tried a few others and once in a while album pictures or info didn't come out the same way they were on iTunes. Gets the job done for me.

Open itunes. Copy all music and drop in music folder on phone.
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Does isyncr refresh playlists and remove songs that are not in iTunes library. I hav dragged and dropped in all honesty I like having the playlists from iTunes to I think I'm stuck between Winamp or isyncr.

Nexus.S said:
Does isyncr refresh playlists and remove songs that are not in iTunes library. I hav dragged and dropped in all honesty I like having the playlists from iTunes to I think I'm stuck between Winamp or isyncr.
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yea you can set it to delete songs not in the playlist and the playlists do refresh

Right on theres what I've been looking for then. I was excited about google music but it was taking forever to upload my library of only 1535 songs and it'd probably take longer to be on my phone. And I was thinking since its cloud where I don't hav data or lose data the music won't play or it will buffer. That's just what I think anyway

oops double post my bad

try double twist, I use google music and just sync mine to the cloud using Itunes but if you are really apposed to Itunes thats a really good alternative

Im having a same trouble, but my problem is with all the syn with itunes.
The window says its syncronized but if i look in the phone i dont have nothing :S.
Sorry for my bad english.

Use google music. It' s hastle free. You have access to your library, as long as, you have a signal, or you can make songs available off line.
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