Thursday, March 13, 2008

Streaming itunes to your devices properly.

The awesome thing about this is that itunes by default creates all the xml files containing the metadata that you nerds desire. Webserver + XML created lists = Nerds Happy.

http://www.codewave.de/products/
http://www.codewave.de/products/mytunesrss/
http://skattertech.com/2006/06/stream-itunes-to-psp-part-2/

Now be warned this will only work on devices that can access a built in Media player & website viewer. Any PC running Linux or windows have integrated players. MAC as well.
I believe that this should work as a network streamer to something like a PDA or PSP.
I'm uncertain of players like the DS and the wii.

If you are using a wii specifically, i think that you will have to purchase the full version.
Quoted from the website:

The full version has the following features in addition to the free version:

**** Flash player for playback directly in your browser
* Unlimited user accounts (free edition: 3 user)
* Unlimited watch folder (free edition: 1 folder)
* Run MyTunesRSS without GUI and configure it via JMX
* Create and use a mytunesrss.com account
* Upload files to the server via the web interface
* Optional download limit per day/week/month for a user
* Set maximum number of files in a ZIP archive per user
* User may (optionally) change his password in the web interface
* Discover other MyTunesRSS server on the local network
* Themes and language packs for the web interface
* External database systems (MySQL and Postgres)
* Configurable welcome message for the web interface
* Transcoder support
* Bandwith limit per user
* Cover thumbnails in the album browser
* Limit user to the tracks of a playlist

It's only $25.05 CAD. Totally worth it and easy to configure.

I have been using the Free one for a couple of days, but since this is going to be valued for my wii, I will have to upgrade to the full version.

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