Hey guys,
tried to find some other thread about this topic but didn't find anything related. i have also googled it and nothing came up, or at least useful.
thing is: considering that today many computer media players such as itunes, winamp and even ms's windows media player itself have builtin media sharing capabilities for videogame consoles (wii, psp, ps3, xbox) and nokia mobile phones (NSeries)... is this really possible that there's no application for windows mobile capable of doing the same?
if so, please post their names, i'm sure some other folks might be after this too. otherwise, guys give me a hand with creativity to work around efficiently. to get that the user should be able to access library, play and skip tracks as long as they are in the same wi-fi network.
lol is it that too much?
Not too much to ask really, and it has been answered if you did a little search. Depends on what ROM you use, what file explorer you use etc .. but if you follow this post you should be fine. Works for me!
If ya use Resco Explorer as file manager, network shares can be viewed from WLAN.
gomax said:
If ya use Resco Explorer as file manager, network shares can be viewed from WLAN.
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Totally!! Same here man!!
Yep, you can also install the Network Plugin, map the drives and add the files into your media player.
You can also run videos from the network without problems, just make sure you have the codecs.
you see... that's what i'm talking about, accessing files on a shared folder is easy, i could even install IIS on my computer and then access files via HTTP on a home network but this is not worth.
media sharing is the answer cause the library updates itself automatically cause that's all it's need. on a tap you have all your songs, videos and pictures just as if they were there. and the best of all, just one single application.
working with shared folders is always a pain and you have to open various applications to get the things done...
a media player that would automatically scan shared folders could be an option...
Yeah, it is possible.
If you run Network Plugin, find the shared folder with your music and map it.
You can go to (in my case, Pocket Music), go to options then Load, and there you can specify what folder(s) will be the ones that will come up as a playlist, in this case, your shared folder with music.
So everytime you open Pocket Music, the files that are stored on your pc's music folder, will display on your media player.
And you will play them without problem.
SlakerBoi said:
you see... that's what i'm talking about, accessing files on a shared folder is easy, i could even install IIS on my computer and then access files via HTTP on a home network but this is not worth.
media sharing is the answer cause the library updates itself automatically cause that's all it's need. on a tap you have all your songs, videos and pictures just as if they were there. and the best of all, just one single application.
working with shared folders is always a pain and you have to open various applications to get the things done...
a media player that would automatically scan shared folders could be an option...
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I know what you mean about running a media server. I do this with media player 11, and access it from my xbox and roku soundbridge. I don't know of any ppc software which will access the media server though.
I should imagine that an audio player which scanned shared folders to build a library would take some time to scan my 18000 tracks on my pc.
jez83uk said:
I know what you mean about running a media server. I do this with media player 11, and access it from my xbox and roku soundbridge. I don't know of any ppc software which will access the media server though.
I should imagine that an audio player which scanned shared folders to build a library would take some time to scan my 18000 tracks on my pc.
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that's exactly what i think. i have an xbox original converted in media centre that takes ages to scan my entire library, i wonder what would be using a shared folder in my phone and i have just over 3000 tracks.
i'm waiting to get a wireless router to start playing with it, the tests i tried to run using an ad-hoc connection were all a pain in the butt...
well, let's see... still open for ideas.
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I don't need it because I know a way to use the wifi network to share your media libraries and stream the media to your phone. It's way better. I also can do it through Bluetooth.
So it can access the files anywhere? Cause this would be awesome to use with my Epic. I got alot of videos and music on my laptop. So if I was on my 3G network, I can wirless stream my music and videos?
No, wifi and Bluetooth only.
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So it can access the files anywhere? Cause this would be awesome to use with my Epic. I got alot of videos and music on my laptop. So if I was on my 3G network, I can wirless stream my music and videos?
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yes that is correct you can access the files from anywhere that you have data service or wifi! and yes wireless stream of them all
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No, wifi and Bluetooth only.
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incorrect, you can use over 3G and 4G as well with this
Oh I thought you were talking to me......awkward
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and forgot to mention in the desktop dversion of pogoplug you can check an option to have your ps3 and your xbox 360 discover the music and videos and whatever else you may have on your external/s
How exactly does it work? Is there a server?
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It works as a virtual drive. I have one and it is very useful in the house since I dont have to connect my hardrive to anything in order to access it. another useful thing i do with is transfer files...my brother has the password to it so he downloaded the desktop plugin. Now whenever we want to show each other a movie or song...we just copy and paste the file onto the virtual drive like we would a folder on our computer and we have full access to the newly uploaded content...
the only draw back is in playback of your movies and music when not on the same network...it takes a while to load, and you have to deal with constant buffering.
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It works as a virtual drive. I have one and it is very useful in the house since I dont have to connect my hardrive to anything in order to access it. another useful thing i do with is transfer files...my brother has the password to it so he downloaded the desktop plugin. Now whenever we want to show each other a movie or song...we just copy and paste the file onto the virtual drive like we would a folder on our computer and we have full access to the newly uploaded content...
the only draw back is in playback of your movies and music when not on the same network...it takes a while to load, and you have to deal with constant buffering.
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i dont have any troubles with buffering personally, i watch stuff at work from my hard drive at home without any troubles.
Hi,
Does anyone have a work around to get MTP to work with the Epic? It really sucks how I can easily sync my drm music from the zune marketplace on my old touchpro and not the EPIC. I know it's been disabled by sprint and works on all the other galaxy phones. I'm wondering how difficult this is to reenable?
Thanks....
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I'm replying to bump this back up. I too would like to find a way to easily sync my phone. Specifically with WMP. Seems from what I've read that if MTP was available, it would work fairly easily. Anyone have any ideas?
I'm not sure what you guys are trying to do, but when connected, the phone will show up similar to a media player or flashdrive in WMP. From there, you can add anything you want to the list, press sync, and watch as WMP loads your music onto your SD card, under a folder called Music, within their respective Artist and album folders complete with album art and info.
That's all I do.
RandomKing said:
I'm not sure what you guys are trying to do, but when connected, the phone will show up similar to a media player or flashdrive in WMP. From there, you can add anything you want to the list, press sync, and watch as WMP loads your music onto your SD card, under a folder called Music, within their respective Artist and album folders complete with album art and info.
That's all I do.
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My phone doesn't show up. Do you have an Epic 4G on Sprint? MTP was stripped out or disabled (in the stock ROM anyway) and our phones are not media devices that can sync with WMP.
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My phone doesn't show up. Do you have an Epic 4G on Sprint? MTP was stripped out or disabled (in the stock ROM anyway) and our phones are not media devices that can sync with WMP.
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It shows up like a flashdrive in my WMP on Windows 7 x32 and x64. However, I have no idea if this is a good enough method for DRM music, as I have made it a point to avoid any and all DRM files.
Obviously I'm on Sprint. And this worked for me before, and after I was stock. Although all it's really doing is copying files, which I could just as easily do manually, albeit, without being able to easily just sync playlists.
Just set this up again after trying it out about a year ago. It's AWESOME!
Requires a donation for the server after a month trial, but it's well worth it.
I can stream my ENTIRE multimedia library (which is stored on my home Windows 7 machine) to my phone. Flawlessly.
Music AND video files!
All the work is done server side, so it'll transcode (on the fly) files into whatever bitrate mp3 you specify.
For video, I have it set up to transcode into flash video, which works FLAWLESSLY on the Epic Touch!
The Android app can be set to cache ahead so if you lose a data signal your music is still there.
This combined with WoL magic packets means I can remotely turn on my home PC and have instant access to gigabytes - nay, terabytes - of media.
Take THAT iCrap! (Actually, there's iOS clients too, though they'd have trouble with the flash video....)
one of my favorite apps.
love the app, but why? dd-wrt router, vpn setup, network shares... my phone sees it as if i got 1TB sdcard
frifox said:
love the app, but why? dd-wrt router, vpn setup, network shares... my phone sees it as if i got 1TB sdcard
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cool, i bet you'd rather me have access to your subsonic server than your network shares.
there's 25 or so of my friends that have access to my Subsonic with bitrate settings etc, its incomparable.
i have an apple & an orange if you want to debate their similarities.
Yeah, a network share is cool and has it's advantages, but this is something completely different.
On the fly transcoding and cache ahead are huge - especially for drives through the mountains where data is slow / non-existent.
I really like being able to give anyone access too.
Drdrewdon, do you know if it's possible to set up user-level access control? Ex. User a can see all folders but user b can only see one folder?
There arn't user rights yet, but its a common request from what I see.
You can also get gap-less playback on your droid by creating a new transcoder for ogg with a single step 'oggenc --quiet --quality=9 -o - %s'. Then set the player for your doid to use only that transcoder. Now you are streaming ogg instead of mp3.
Cant get this app to connect for some reason. Anyone have any setup instructions?
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Cant get this app to connect for some reason. Anyone have any setup instructions?
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can't connect to your own subsonic server? explain what you've done so far
I Figured it out, I had to change some of the settings on my router. The app is great but Im liking Audio galaxy a little bit better, besides the fact there is no options to add users.
I know I'm asking for a lot here, but do you know of any android apps that could do the following...
At home I have a server that is always on, that connects to the router and hold all sorts of media files, including 24,000 MP3 files. I have a Samsung Galaxy S2, with 16GB of internal space and 64GB on a MicroSD card. I would like to have an app on the phone that, at a certain time every day (or week), connects via Wi-fi to the network share on the server, and syncs my MP3s. I have a few other file types mixed in with them too, such as AVI, VOB, TXT, that I don't want to be synced. I want it to compare the two locations and only copy what's new. Also, since the last sync, if I've modified any folder on the network share (i.e. changed file name or ID3 tag), then I want these changes to be reflected on the phone.
Now, the above is quite complicated, but I'm going to throw another spanner in the works now. The MP3s on the network share are mostly 256Kbps or 320Kbps. I don't really need this on the phone, and it woulkd mean I couldn't get all the music on there. But if it was 128Kbps I might. So I would like a program that would check the bitrate of the file and convert it if it is bigger than 128.
I realise it would take probably weeks to go through copying and converting 24,000 MP3, but if it does it all automatically I don't mind.
Is there anything out there that comes close to fulfilling these requirements?
Thanks.
meirionwyllt said:
I know I'm asking for a lot here, but do you know of any android apps that could do the following...
At home I have a server that is always on, that connects to the router and hold all sorts of media files, including 24,000 MP3 files. I have a Samsung Galaxy S2, with 16GB of internal space and 64GB on a MicroSD card. I would like to have an app on the phone that, at a certain time every day (or week), connects via Wi-fi to the network share on the server, and syncs my MP3s. I have a few other file types mixed in with them too, such as AVI, VOB, TXT, that I don't want to be synced. I want it to compare the two locations and only copy what's new. Also, since the last sync, if I've modified any folder on the network share (i.e. changed file name or ID3 tag), then I want these changes to be reflected on the phone.
Now, the above is quite complicated, but I'm going to throw another spanner in the works now. The MP3s on the network share are mostly 256Kbps or 320Kbps. I don't really need this on the phone, and it woulkd mean I couldn't get all the music on there. But if it was 128Kbps I might. So I would like a program that would check the bitrate of the file and convert it if it is bigger than 128.
I realise it would take probably weeks to go through copying and converting 24,000 MP3, but if it does it all automatically I don't mind.
Is there anything out there that comes close to fulfilling these requirements?
Thanks.
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well,you really ask for alot but try using kies air for samsung.
Hi, thanks for your reply, but a problem that instantly springs to mind is that with Kies Air one doesn't connect to the router, but directly to the PC. The PC in question doesn't have wifi (connects to the router via ethernet). Also, because of this direct wifi connection i would need to enable Internet Connection Sharing on the server, which i'd rather avoid.
Any other suggesions.
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FolderSync works nice for me. Check this.
If you mean like a media server then use imediashare or if you want to send files through wifi search wondershare mobilego there the best things
Hi, I have a Home Server setup that feeds all my media (.avi .mkv .mp3 etc) to all my enabled devices around my home. Now I have a shiny new HoX I am looking for an App that will allow me to remotely connect (while I am away from home) to my server and play what ever media I want. Is there an app that will do this, or a combination of apps ? Thanks in advance
For music subsonic is by far the best solution that I have found. I have heard people have had success with plex as well, so you might want to look into that as well because it supports both music AND videos. Subsonic claims to support movies but I as of yet have not been able to figure out how to get a video to play on the Android client.
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Hi, I have a Home Server setup that feeds all my media (.avi .mkv .mp3 etc) to all my enabled devices around my home. Now I have a shiny new HoX I am looking for an App that will allow me to remotely connect (while I am away from home) to my server and play what ever media I want. Is there an app that will do this, or a combination of apps ? Thanks in advance
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Plex. It's the greatest app in the world. Not only can you stream via your home network it allows you to stream over a 2-3MB HSPA connection remotely. To get the most out of it you'll probably have to do some file renaming on the server but it's worth it once you see how your media displays with cover art and descriptions. I use it on my phone, tablet, and all my Google TV's. PlayOn also allows you to access your own media but it's not as sleek as Plex.
Thanks, Ill look into it. If i remember right, my old samsung bluray player had plex in it .....