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I am about to purchase a NAS device to act as a home media server.
So far my short list includes:
Synology Disk Station DS210j
QNAP TS-210 Turbo NAS
Some of them support iTunes server and can stream music to an iPhone. Surely there is a way to do this on the Eris! Is there an iTunes client for Android 1.5 or perhaps a better way to do this?
Any help appreciated!
dont know anything about android, but my nas drive packed in and i got a new one from pc world. i thought it was a nas drive but wasnt it was a network media storage, my ameo couldnt pick it up at all because it wasnt a nas drive, pc seen it fine and could map. hope this is of some help. make sure its nas.
Not sure if your NAS device supports Upnp, but if it does like windowns 7 and can share media as Pictures Music and Videos, I found a program on the market that I could access the files on the computer over my network, the music would work but I couldn't get the videos to play. Search for UPNP on the market, I'll post the program later when the gf brings her phone around. There was a similar program on the Ipod touch, although it was able to play the video files, probably missing a codec in android.
The program was Andromote... if you have windows 7 set up sharing all the media on your nas you would be able to access it.
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It's not exactly graceful, but I use MPD (Music Player Daemon), PMix (an Android client for MPD), and A Online Radio to stream my music collection to my Droid Eris (via Icecast). Unfortunately, the native Droid media player doesn't support the usual streaming protocols, but the above combo works. When I'm outside my home network, I use a web based client for MPD and have my Icecast port forwarded on my router. If the NAS device you pick up supports Linux, you should be able to install MPD and Icecast (both are available in most distros); the Market has both PMix and AOR for free.
The protocol iTunes uses for streaming audio is called DAAP, but I'm unaware of any DAAP clients on the Android platform yet. Searching google for "Android DAAP" led me to a site which offers a client application to control iTunes from Android, but not client. Again, if the NAS system runs Linux but doesn't provide a DAAP server, you can possibly install Firefly Media Server (formerly mt-daap) to mimic the fuctionality. However until there's a client, there is little point.
hello,
I have been looking for an implementation to stream my music collection so it doesn't take space on my phone, it needs to work over 3g or else it would be useless. i have looked but i have not found any app.
i'm trying to stream my music from a NAS so i can turn my computer off and still listen to music.
any suggestions, it doesn't have to be free apps.
I use subsonic. It works perfectly and has a nice interface.
ritalin said:
I use subsonic. It works perfectly and has a nice interface.
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I second this. Make the cache size much bigger too. All the music you play gets saved on your sd card (Until the cache size is reached, then it starts deleting the old stuff). That way you can play it in the stock music player for offline use.
I'll chime in for the triple play. I run the subsonic server portion on an Ubuntu machine in the basement and get seamless 3G streaming when I travel (most of my music is 320k). Running it without a dedicated comp, however, I do not think is possible.
Thanks i will try subsonic as soon as i can
Another vote for Subsonic. In addition to music, I've pointed my subsonic server at my audio books directory and can grab any of my library any time.
Add in MortPlayer Audio Books and configure it to look at Subsonic's audio book cache folders and you've got your audio book library on the go coupled with a great 'books player.
I just found and am using OrbLive client on my Vibrant with Orb Caster server running on a Mac on my Lan accessing the music from a shared disk on an XP machine. The Windows version of the server also works fine but my Mac is mostly idle and has better uptime. The Server is at orb.com and the client is available at the App stores.
The Server is free and the client is $10. Not cheap as apps go but works well on 3G with tolerable response time on selections. Does video, pictures and documents too. Simple to setup and easy to use with a no-nonsense user interface that serves my purposes (listen to my home library on my phone) quite well. Of course I will be suggesting a few improvements but who doesn't.
I'd mostly like to see an equalizer put in either at the server or client end.
BTW, OrbLive also works with the Winamp Remote server as well. Winamp Remote is a rebadged earlier release of Orb Caster.
I have no affiliation with Orb. They don't yet know who I am.
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Only saw one thread on ps3? Server. How are people serving content to their nook? Any good apps that also support ebooks/pdfs, streaming video?
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It's early days for the android version of PLEX, which has been out for iOS things for a while .. it should do the job but documentation is very thin for android right now ...
The nice thing about ebooks is you don't really need to stream them because of the files size. I just use Opera Unite to access my home file server with all my ebooks.
unite.opera.com/overview/
For music, im currently using subsonic which seems to be working pretty good, but I probably wont end up purchasing the license.
UPnPlay + Rockplayer in NC and PS3 media server in desktop - combo works great for music and video streaming. I haven't tried ebooks yet.
While e books don't really need "serving" due to size I for instance have the entire Project Gutenberg library and sorting though it to see what I want to read on the NC can be a hassle. To that end I use calibre server installed on my hp475 Home Server to push out any book and the stock WHS for any song/movie/image/sw/apk/etc. via browser on WAN and es file manager or mount mgr/CIFS on home LAN. If you don't have a home server then calibre will run from any workstation and you can use ddns for WAN access.
Like aklyz, I use Calibre. Handles my entire library, allows me to find cover art easily and can be set up as a catalog in Aldiko.
It can do a lot more than that, but it only does ebooks.
check out AudioGalaxy for music.
i just got it yesterday and it is AWESOME, if you are trying to stream your music from your computer. used it on my droid eris at the gym today. all my music (30+ gb) no space required on droid. and its FREE!!!
I set up VLC convert and stream last night and it works great for music/video. Nice thing is that it will transcode all of your video to h.264 so that it works on the Nook, no need to convert the video. Most other servers need you to convert the video to an NC compatible format. It worked with every video I tried: mpg, avi, wmv. It also allows you to use the Nook as a remote for your computer, which is pretty sweet. The free version will transcode up to 480 width - pro version allows 640 width and picture support as well. I may end up purchasing it as it's nice not to have to copy anything to the NC. If I can get it to support recorded TV shows from media center, it'll be perfect (I think it will, just need to change the extension).
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Like aklyz, I use Calibre. Handles my entire library, allows me to find cover art easily and can be set up as a catalog in Aldiko.
It can do a lot more than that, but it only does ebooks.
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Yeah Cailbre is awesome. I like how it auto finds covers if you put in the ISBN
eBook server access
Hi,
Calibre (open source) (http: // calibre - ebook . com) is great for organizing
the eBooks on PC end, getting covers, reviews, tagging them etc.
You can download and manage eBooks on the device mounted as a drive
directly from Calibre, or upload them to Dropbox for later download on the device.
There is also a paid app on the Android end "Calibre Library" that works with
Calibre to pull books to the Android device. Still under development, but very
usable. It can search library, sort by author, title etc.
Peter
I setup my calibre library folder as folder within Dropbox. Every book I have is now easily accessible from all of my devices. My calibre library is only about 500 megs ...
pmilford said:
Hi,
Calibre (open source) (http: // calibre - ebook . com) is great for organizing
the eBooks on PC end, getting covers, reviews, tagging them etc.
You can download and manage eBooks on the device mounted as a drive
directly from Calibre, or upload them to Dropbox for later download on the device.
There is also a paid app on the Android end "Calibre Library" that works with
Calibre to pull books to the Android device. Still under development, but very
usable. It can search library, sort by author, title etc.
Peter
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I have just got a Motorola Milestone 2 and have used MotoCast to transfer my iTunes music over.
That's been no problem, but I listen to a lot of radio plays in mp3 format on my iPad and Mac, as well as my Android phone. If I tell iTunes that the plays are Audiobooks and to remember the position that's no problem, they can pick up where I left off across the iPad and Mac, but I can't seem to do this in Android.
I use Poweramp on Android to listen to the plays and have experimented but can't seem to get it to sync where I last played.
Does anyone know if this is possible? I've searched here and the web.
We have an app called "iSyncr" which can sync iTunes to your Android device. When combined with another app of ours, "Rocket Player", it will sync the listening position of podcasts back and forth from iTunes to Android.
That may not work for your MP3's, but should help with any podcasts.
Cheers!
Justin
I need a programmer to make mobile application ( not reskin) for audio books .. Which will includes sign in page (acess page =registration page) then home page which will contains audio books classification & recent editions.... etc.
Under each classification all the books which belongs to such classifiction will appear....then when you choose a book..you will enter the audio book page which will contain...
a summary about the book story, writer name, book reader name, audio file volume, audio file record time, all of the above will appear below the book cover photo &A audio file player.... (the book may be recorded on several audio files... if so.... all the audio files should be sorted after each other in successive way
The audio books is continously updated so we will need a control board, beside some other options like ; notifications for application users, rating for audio books, something like stop watch so that the user can come back to the audio from the stop point........etc.......etc.......etc