iPhone + Network Hard Drive

killawattz · Jun 14, 2007

If I have a hard drive that is hooked up to a wireless network, do you think that they will develop a way for me to listen to music from that hard drive on the network? If so, then I'll be opting for the lesser priced 4gb version, and just stream all of my music to my phone, since my campus has wireless access everywhere

kaidomac · Jun 14, 2007

killawattz said:
If I have a hard drive that is hooked up to a wireless network, do you think that they will develop a way for me to listen to music from that hard drive on the network? If so, then I'll be opting for the lesser priced 4gb version, and just stream all of my music to my phone, since my campus has wireless access everywhere

You can do that yourself pretty easily. All you need is a streaming server with a website client. The server streams music to your device via a web page, which you browse with your iPhone. Here's some links to get you started:

The Most Powerful & Flexible Video Platform | JW Player

Icecast

edna -- an MP3 server

http://www.plaino.com/flash-mp3-server/mp3-server.html

comthre3 · Jun 14, 2007

I thought that the iPhone has no flash support.

killawattz · Jun 14, 2007

sweet, i just gotta read up on exactly how i can do this...
hopefully there's a way i can do it without having my computer hooked up to the network

kaidomac · Jun 14, 2007

comthre3 said:
I thought that the iPhone has no flash support.

You can do streaming without Flash.

kaidomac · Jun 14, 2007

killawattz said:
sweet, i just gotta read up on exactly how i can do this...
hopefully there's a way i can do it without having my computer hooked up to the network

If you setup a spare computer as a server, you can stream from there. Alternatively, you can load your files on a web server. There's a great multimedia service called MediaMax that stores your multimedia, it shouldn't be too hard to access on an iPhone:

http://www.mediamax.com/

PowerBookG4 · Jun 15, 2007

comthre3 said:
I thought that the iPhone has no flash support.

do you mean, flash on websites or flash cards? I don't think there are flash cards, but I dont' think anybody knows yet if there will be flash on websites yet because apple has not said that it wouldn't, but does say that it has full safari on it, so you would think that safari plug-ins would work too?