DOT.TUNES brings wifi streaming to iPhone and iPod Touch

Hey diego,

Jeff here from DOT.TUNES

I absolutely swear on my children that DOT.TUNES has never ever sent a spam email - not once, ever. Nor have we ever sold, rented or otherwise made our client info available to a 3rd party.

I assure you it would have been a coincidence. I hate spam with a passion and we value and respect our clients much more than to abuse their trust.

To prove this to you - a challenge anyone to simply create a new gmail account or a special email account with any provider and don't use the account for any other purpose than to register DOT.TUNES - then watch and see if you receive any email in that account.

I hope that helps reassure you that we would never and will never be involved in email spam. EVER!!!

Zisho, you can certainly use DOT.TUNES to control and play tracks via iTunes as well - and it's free and requires no plugins.

Cheers


Jeff

i've used it on Edge too works fine... i use it when walking the dog, Edge is really strong in my neighborhood tho. also Tyler I have watched larger than 150MB files on it a few times, they were mp4 if that helps.

I tried dot.tunes for Wii streaming and I swore that I had an influx of junk mail for a period after that. Usually my spam filter catches them, but I ended up not using it to stream anything.

i've used dot.tunes on edge - it definitely works. it's a great little program for now.

Justin--just do what you originally planned, except instead of mounting the home filesystem with your iPhone, mount it with the laptop, then share out the music from that. Clunky? Sure. But if you're on the go and really want to hear "Hazy Shade of Winter"... :-)

brian--looks neat, except anything that requires a web server (or computer) isn't going to work in my case. I usually have my laptop on me and the drive with all my music is plugged into the network at home.

*holds out for filesystem mounting*

Justin--I've got the next best thing. (Hope no one minds if I plug the system I developed.) Since the iPhone can't mount filesystems, it's browser-based.

http://pixelcity.com/iphone-streaming-music/

It's pretty simple--just a couple files that works with the Apache web server that comes with OS X. Right now you browse by artist, then album, then song (all it does, really, is serve out the files as they exist in your ~/Music folder) but I'm working on search, playlists, etc. It should be pretty fully-featured in November. (1.0 right now, 1.1 next week.)

Pros: Free, works over EDGE (if coverage/speed is fast enough; sometimes it
is; also depends on the bitrate the music is encoded at; plus of course you must have an Internet connection with a high enough upstream connection to stream.)

Cons: Setup involves more than double-clicking an icon (but it's still pretty simple.)

Give it a shot, at least. You can always pay for DOT.TUNES later if it doesn't work out. :-)

if you're music is stored on a windoze xp system, try orb from orb.com...its free...

I've had this program for more than a month, and the most recently released update is the first that ALMOST works as advertised. Video files longer than 15 mins or larger than 150 Mbs still don't work, though...

How about streaming the music from the iPhone to my Airport Express?