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Accessing shared files on PC wirelessly. Possible?

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.

Home music library on EVO to go?

Is there anyway to have access to the music on your computer hdd with your EVO using 3G or WIFI? 8-32 GB is not enough to store a real music library IMO, and it's an inconvenience to have to constantly swap music in and out. It would be cool if a program would allow you to navigate through your computer's music in a similar way to if it were directly on the MicroSD and if playback to the EVO could be achieved with little or no quality loss.
Does anyone know if this is something that can be currently done or is this even possible at all?

if you have good upload bandwidth at home, you could use orb (not free).
if you happen to have a netgear readynas, there is a new addon that can transcode (audio/video) on the fly and stream directly from your nas.
Personally I just use last.fm to stream (or pandora depending on my mood).

try googling online media library or something. I am sure there is an app that is built for something to that effect. Or depending on how frisky you are, you could build a simple file sharing website w/ password protection.

google bought simplify media awhile back, hopefully they will re-release under 'google media' or something similar for android media streaming.

I have been using g-mote on my EVO and it works pretty well. You have to know your outside IP address and need to forward the ports for g-mote server to your internal IP. It is in beta and it crashes every once in a while but seems to work well for me.
Edit: If you search for gmote on the market, it is called Gmote 2.0 made my Marc Stogaitis & Mimi Sun. It is also a cool way to use your phone to control music and movies on your computer and use your phone as a touchpad for your computer.

I use Orb Live, works great for Audio. I read bad reviews about video streaming but, I don't do that so I don't know.
There's a mac and windows server.

Wow...Orb Live is much better that gmote, just installed. $9.99 on the Market and worth every penny. Is taking a long time to index my 85,000+ songs though.

[APP] Subsonic

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?

dabezt1 said:
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.

App that syncs MP3 from a network share through Wi-fi?

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

[Q] App to remotely access my home server (media)

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.

Tw4T said:
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 .....