RE: Evaluation: iPhone 6 and iOS 8: A Look at Accessibility with the Help of iOS Without the Eye, by Jonathan Mosen - AccessWorldR - October 2014
Tina, there is a very nice side-by-side comparison of the KNFB reader App, and other OCR apps. You can find it by visiting http://www.coolblindtech.com. There is a podcast there that shows you more about the KNFB reader. It seems to work very well. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tina Wilson Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 8:48 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Evaluation: iPhone 6 and iOS 8: A Look at Accessibility with the Help of iOS Without the Eye, by Jonathan Mosen - AccessWorldR - October 2014 Hi Gary and all, I upgraded to the 7.1, and I've had a lot of problems with Siri. It's very frustrating. I would like to eventually get the KNFB reader app, but I'm wondering how everything will work together. That's been my experience. Tina -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary Petraccaro Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 6:22 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Evaluation: iPhone 6 and iOS 8: A Look at Accessibility with the Help of iOS Without the Eye, by Jonathan Mosen - AccessWorldR - October 2014 I'm an iPhone 5 user. I use Siri and Voice Over for most of what I do with a phone--send text messages, make calls. I upgraded to 8 because of an article much like the one in this message which I have just read most if not all of. I'm now using 8.0.2. I have had enough problems with VO and Siri that I re-installed 8.0.2. Some slight improvement after that but not much. The problem I have in particular is the inability to place a call or send a text message reliably. To me, that, and not the bells and whistles, is why I got the phone. Whether my experience is typical I cannot say. Nor can I say whether it's because of my 16-G iPhone 5. But, unless you really need the bells and whistles, I'd be somewhat cautious about the upgrade. Hype is nice, but I've already seen the Jetsons world and I can't use a device because of hype. - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2014 1:13 AM Subject: Evaluation: iPhone 6 and iOS 8: A Look at Accessibility with the Help of iOS Without the Eye, by Jonathan Mosen - AccessWorldR - October 2014 If You're thinking about upgrading to IOS 8, already done the upgrade or just want to find out what all the fuss is about when it comes to the new iPhones as far as audio and accessibility etc goes then I strongly recommend you read this article. http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw151003 ** Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
RE: Evaluation: iPhone 6 and iOS 8: A Look at Accessibility with the Help of iOS Without the Eye, by Jonathan Mosen - AccessWorldR - October 2014
Thanks Michael, Appreciate the info. Tina -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Michael Mote Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:06 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Evaluation: iPhone 6 and iOS 8: A Look at Accessibility with the Help of iOS Without the Eye, by Jonathan Mosen - AccessWorldR - October 2014 Tina, there is a very nice side-by-side comparison of the KNFB reader App, and other OCR apps. You can find it by visiting http://www.coolblindtech.com. There is a podcast there that shows you more about the KNFB reader. It seems to work very well. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tina Wilson Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 8:48 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Evaluation: iPhone 6 and iOS 8: A Look at Accessibility with the Help of iOS Without the Eye, by Jonathan Mosen - AccessWorldR - October 2014 Hi Gary and all, I upgraded to the 7.1, and I've had a lot of problems with Siri. It's very frustrating. I would like to eventually get the KNFB reader app, but I'm wondering how everything will work together. That's been my experience. Tina -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary Petraccaro Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 6:22 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Evaluation: iPhone 6 and iOS 8: A Look at Accessibility with the Help of iOS Without the Eye, by Jonathan Mosen - AccessWorldR - October 2014 I'm an iPhone 5 user. I use Siri and Voice Over for most of what I do with a phone--send text messages, make calls. I upgraded to 8 because of an article much like the one in this message which I have just read most if not all of. I'm now using 8.0.2. I have had enough problems with VO and Siri that I re-installed 8.0.2. Some slight improvement after that but not much. The problem I have in particular is the inability to place a call or send a text message reliably. To me, that, and not the bells and whistles, is why I got the phone. Whether my experience is typical I cannot say. Nor can I say whether it's because of my 16-G iPhone 5. But, unless you really need the bells and whistles, I'd be somewhat cautious about the upgrade. Hype is nice, but I've already seen the Jetsons world and I can't use a device because of hype. - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2014 1:13 AM Subject: Evaluation: iPhone 6 and iOS 8: A Look at Accessibility with the Help of iOS Without the Eye, by Jonathan Mosen - AccessWorldR - October 2014 If You're thinking about upgrading to IOS 8, already done the upgrade or just want to find out what all the fuss is about when it comes to the new iPhones as far as audio and accessibility etc goes then I strongly recommend you read this article. http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw151003 ** Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge
No I did not use a mic. Usually it does it with using a mic. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 9:55 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge Wait, I think you missed a step. Did you use your mike? Or What you hear? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dan Thompson Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 8:53 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: question on streaming audio with SoundForge Hi All, Once I could ghave an audio file or program playing via the internet and record it in progress with soundforge via streaming. Now I can not and belive something got accidently changed on my end. I would genuinely be greatful to someone helping to make this feature return. Here is how I have recorded a streaming file in the past. I am using Windows Seven professional. System Access in my primary screenreading software. However, I do have access to JAWS, Window-eyes and NVDA. 1.Open Soundforge. 2. Press control plus the letter r to start the recording process. 3. Press alt plus r to start the actual recording. 4. Access the internet and locate the sound byte I wish to record. Then start that sound byte playing 5. When the audio is finished, go back to soundforge and press escape twice to stop the recording. 6. Edit out the unwanted material at the beginning of this recording and save the final product. That is how it was done up to about a week ago. Now when trying to record from streaming audio folloing the above steps, nothing records. Thanks again for any help. God, who does not sleep and who awakens us from sleep that we may ask, gives much more graciously. Augustine of Hippo To subscribe to Dan's tips or dedaily devotions, send an email to dthomps...@mchsi.com with either subscribe dan's tips or subscribe daily devotion in the subject. This message has been scanned by Norton 360
RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge
Interesting. Can you record your self with a mike still though? This is very strange. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dan Thompson Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 9:40 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge No I did not use a mic. Usually it does it with using a mic. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 9:55 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge Wait, I think you missed a step. Did you use your mike? Or What you hear? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dan Thompson Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 8:53 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: question on streaming audio with SoundForge Hi All, Once I could ghave an audio file or program playing via the internet and record it in progress with soundforge via streaming. Now I can not and belive something got accidently changed on my end. I would genuinely be greatful to someone helping to make this feature return. Here is how I have recorded a streaming file in the past. I am using Windows Seven professional. System Access in my primary screenreading software. However, I do have access to JAWS, Window-eyes and NVDA. 1.Open Soundforge. 2. Press control plus the letter r to start the recording process. 3. Press alt plus r to start the actual recording. 4. Access the internet and locate the sound byte I wish to record. Then start that sound byte playing 5. When the audio is finished, go back to soundforge and press escape twice to stop the recording. 6. Edit out the unwanted material at the beginning of this recording and save the final product. That is how it was done up to about a week ago. Now when trying to record from streaming audio folloing the above steps, nothing records. Thanks again for any help. God, who does not sleep and who awakens us from sleep that we may ask, gives much more graciously. Augustine of Hippo To subscribe to Dan's tips or dedaily devotions, send an email to dthomps...@mchsi.com with either subscribe dan's tips or subscribe daily devotion in the subject. This message has been scanned by Norton 360
RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge
Yes, I use the mixer I have attached to the computer. But I can also record via the mich jack. Thanks for responding. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 8:58 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge Interesting. Can you record your self with a mike still though? This is very strange. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dan Thompson Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 9:40 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge No I did not use a mic. Usually it does it with using a mic. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 9:55 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge Wait, I think you missed a step. Did you use your mike? Or What you hear? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dan Thompson Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 8:53 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: question on streaming audio with SoundForge Hi All, Once I could ghave an audio file or program playing via the internet and record it in progress with soundforge via streaming. Now I can not and belive something got accidently changed on my end. I would genuinely be greatful to someone helping to make this feature return. Here is how I have recorded a streaming file in the past. I am using Windows Seven professional. System Access in my primary screenreading software. However, I do have access to JAWS, Window-eyes and NVDA. 1.Open Soundforge. 2. Press control plus the letter r to start the recording process. 3. Press alt plus r to start the actual recording. 4. Access the internet and locate the sound byte I wish to record. Then start that sound byte playing 5. When the audio is finished, go back to soundforge and press escape twice to stop the recording. 6. Edit out the unwanted material at the beginning of this recording and save the final product. That is how it was done up to about a week ago. Now when trying to record from streaming audio folloing the above steps, nothing records. Thanks again for any help. God, who does not sleep and who awakens us from sleep that we may ask, gives much more graciously. Augustine of Hippo To subscribe to Dan's tips or dedaily devotions, send an email to dthomps...@mchsi.com with either subscribe dan's tips or subscribe daily devotion in the subject. This message has been scanned by Norton 360
RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge
You're welcome. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dan Thompson Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 10:06 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge Yes, I use the mixer I have attached to the computer. But I can also record via the mich jack. Thanks for responding. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 8:58 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge Interesting. Can you record your self with a mike still though? This is very strange. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dan Thompson Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 9:40 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge No I did not use a mic. Usually it does it with using a mic. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 9:55 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: question on streaming audio with SoundForge Wait, I think you missed a step. Did you use your mike? Or What you hear? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dan Thompson Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 8:53 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: question on streaming audio with SoundForge Hi All, Once I could ghave an audio file or program playing via the internet and record it in progress with soundforge via streaming. Now I can not and belive something got accidently changed on my end. I would genuinely be greatful to someone helping to make this feature return. Here is how I have recorded a streaming file in the past. I am using Windows Seven professional. System Access in my primary screenreading software. However, I do have access to JAWS, Window-eyes and NVDA. 1.Open Soundforge. 2. Press control plus the letter r to start the recording process. 3. Press alt plus r to start the actual recording. 4. Access the internet and locate the sound byte I wish to record. Then start that sound byte playing 5. When the audio is finished, go back to soundforge and press escape twice to stop the recording. 6. Edit out the unwanted material at the beginning of this recording and save the final product. That is how it was done up to about a week ago. Now when trying to record from streaming audio folloing the above steps, nothing records. Thanks again for any help. God, who does not sleep and who awakens us from sleep that we may ask, gives much more graciously. Augustine of Hippo To subscribe to Dan's tips or dedaily devotions, send an email to dthomps...@mchsi.com with either subscribe dan's tips or subscribe daily devotion in the subject. This message has been scanned by Norton 360
Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
Hi! I know I've already replied to this eMail but I thought I'd reply again as I've given the subject under discussion a great deal of thought. You want to transfer your media content such as music and so forth from your iPhone to your Windows PC using a USB cable as though your iPhone were a hard drive right/ Well I'm not so sure that this will be as straight forward as we thought it would be and I'm not surprised to hear that you didn't have any success with those Apps which allow the sharing of data between iPods and computers. As I understand it - someone will correct me if I'm wrong I'm sure smile. - iPod sharing Apps were written in the days of the iPod Nano, Shuffle etc well before the iPhones we're using now came along so - if that's the case - then these sharing Apps probably won't work given the iPhone has a different data distribution system, in effect the iPhone is locked and I think the only way to share your iPhones data openly - say music you've downloaded from the iTunes store or music you've aded to your music collection through iTunes - is to jail break the iPhone. Dane Trethowan's iPhone at +61400494862 has had the privlidge of delivering the above eMail to you. On 13 Oct 2014, at 1:46 pm, Jeremy icu8...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, yeah, I was just reading up on the Camera kit for the IPad, after I sent my last message. Unfortunately, the page I found was from 2010, so not sure how accurate the info would be now. May still be worth checking it out if the kit isn't super expensive, if it still works on the 6 plus and IOS8. It's worth noting here though, that it's apparently necessary to jailbreak, in order to have access to the filesystem of the IPads, but the ability to use USB devices, keyboards, microphones, etc sounds pretty neat if it still works. This brings me to ask another question or two, but I'll begin it in a new subject to keep things organized. Thanks and take care. Blessings. On 10/12/2014 8:26 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Yes, I believe so, its the camera kit though I've never played with it and am not sure which IOS devices are supported with it these days. On 13 Oct 2014, at 1:14 pm, Jeremy icu8...@gmail.com wrote: You mention here an adapter from apple that allows you to move files, I assume media specifically, over to directories on the phone from the computer. Do these adapters require software to go along side them to allow access to the phone's filesystem, software like sharepod, etc, and does this allow you to pull music from the device, even without having to have the files already stored within ITunes on the computer? I understand that installing some sort of file manager on the phone would give partial access to those areas allowed to it, if it were connected to dropbox or a wireless device as you mentioned here, but how well does that work for all types of media other than music, like audio books. Also, does installing a file manager on the phone give complete access to all media on a phone, without you having to jealbreak? I'm mainly curious as one major downfall I have with storing my music and books on my phone is the ability to retrieve them from the phone if I no longer have them in my ITunes library on my computer. There's plenty of software for doing this, but as far as I've been able to figure out, not much of it is accessible. If I could purchase an device to make a connection from the phone to the computer and have the ability to copy my media straight over to the phone, I'd be a happy camper for sure. Thanks. Blessings. On 10/12/2014 7:36 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi! I’ve decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if you’re using say the iPhone’s “Music Player” App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially we’re referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what can’t be done and focus on what can be done so let’s do that with IOS. The first App you’ll need is a Player and there are several good one’s out there but for the sake of simplicity let’s focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names
RE: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! Ive decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if youre using say the iPhones Music Player App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially were referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what cant be done and focus on what can be done so lets do that with IOS. The first App youll need is a Player and there are several good ones out there but for the sake of simplicity lets focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a specific point - computer, Dropbox account etc - right to a folder on your iPhone where you can browse, play and manipulate your files to your hearts content. So this brings us to another possibly challenging topic, iPhones have only so much storage space so what if you have thousands upon thousands of files you wish to access at any one time or supposing your music collection is in a Lossless format that takes up a good deal of space? If this is the case then its time to look at a pocket sized hard drive with a built-in Wi-Fi network, I mentioned my Skyshare drive towards the end of last week and this drive has its own built-in Wi-Fi network which the iPhone can connect to. Once connected the Apps I mentioned earlier - oOplayer and File Browser - have direct access to the drive thus the content youve placed too the drive. The Skyshare drive on the surface looks like any other portable hard drive, it has a USB port on the back for connection to a computer with a USB 3.0 port for the copying and manipulation of content, you can also use the Wi-Fi abilities of the drive for copying/manipulating files though this process is considerably slower when compared to USB 3.0 or even 2.
Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
Hi, I just installed dropbox on my Iphone and Ipad. What you might do, is because dropbox allows you to share files, is: use this to share to another I device, or maby share to a pc. Dropbox will play the files be they mp3 or mp4. I haven't tried this in reverse. That is moveing files from the Iphone to the computer. Just incase I didn't menchion this dropbox must be installed on both machines. Do the computer first., Then the iphone.. -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:58 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! I know I've already replied to this eMail but I thought I'd reply again as I've given the subject under discussion a great deal of thought. You want to transfer your media content such as music and so forth from your iPhone to your Windows PC using a USB cable as though your iPhone were a hard drive right/ Well I'm not so sure that this will be as straight forward as we thought it would be and I'm not surprised to hear that you didn't have any success with those Apps which allow the sharing of data between iPods and computers. As I understand it - someone will correct me if I'm wrong I'm sure smile. - iPod sharing Apps were written in the days of the iPod Nano, Shuffle etc well before the iPhones we're using now came along so - if that's the case - then these sharing Apps probably won't work given the iPhone has a different data distribution system, in effect the iPhone is locked and I think the only way to share your iPhones data openly - say music you've downloaded from the iTunes store or music you've aded to your music collection through iTunes - is to jail break the iPhone. Dane Trethowan's iPhone at +61400494862 has had the privlidge of delivering the above eMail to you. On 13 Oct 2014, at 1:46 pm, Jeremy icu8...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, yeah, I was just reading up on the Camera kit for the IPad, after I sent my last message. Unfortunately, the page I found was from 2010, so not sure how accurate the info would be now. May still be worth checking it out if the kit isn't super expensive, if it still works on the 6 plus and IOS8. It's worth noting here though, that it's apparently necessary to jailbreak, in order to have access to the filesystem of the IPads, but the ability to use USB devices, keyboards, microphones, etc sounds pretty neat if it still works. This brings me to ask another question or two, but I'll begin it in a new subject to keep things organized. Thanks and take care. Blessings. On 10/12/2014 8:26 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Yes, I believe so, its the camera kit though I've never played with it and am not sure which IOS devices are supported with it these days. On 13 Oct 2014, at 1:14 pm, Jeremy icu8...@gmail.com wrote: You mention here an adapter from apple that allows you to move files, I assume media specifically, over to directories on the phone from the computer. Do these adapters require software to go along side them to allow access to the phone's filesystem, software like sharepod, etc, and does this allow you to pull music from the device, even without having to have the files already stored within ITunes on the computer? I understand that installing some sort of file manager on the phone would give partial access to those areas allowed to it, if it were connected to dropbox or a wireless device as you mentioned here, but how well does that work for all types of media other than music, like audio books. Also, does installing a file manager on the phone give complete access to all media on a phone, without you having to jealbreak? I'm mainly curious as one major downfall I have with storing my music and books on my phone is the ability to retrieve them from the phone if I no longer have them in my ITunes library on my computer. There's plenty of software for doing this, but as far as I've been able to figure out, not much of it is accessible. If I could purchase an device to make a connection from the phone to the computer and have the ability to copy my media straight over to the phone, I'd be a happy camper for sure. Thanks. Blessings. On 10/12/2014 7:36 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi! I’ve decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if you’re using say the iPhone’s “Music Player” App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially we’re referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other
Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
Okay a few things here. We did cover the Dropbox thing earlier on in the thread if you'd like to reference it. The point here is that files transferred onto an iPhone using iTunes cannot be accessed on Dropbox or anywhere else - unless you have some means of putting them there in the first place. Now this of course is further complicated by several factors, if you've transferred your files from iTunes on your computer to your iPhone then there's a reasonable chance that you can copy the files across to your Dropbox from there but if you've downloaded to your iPhone directly from the iTunes Store or just haven't downloaded at all and just stream your purchases etc from iTunes then Dropbox doesn't mean all that much smile. On 14/10/2014 3:23 AM, ken reed wrote: Hi, I just installed dropbox on my Iphone and Ipad. What you might do, is because dropbox allows you to share files, is: use this to share to another I device, or maby share to a pc. Dropbox will play the files be they mp3 or mp4. I haven't tried this in reverse. That is moveing files from the Iphone to the computer. Just incase I didn't menchion this dropbox must be installed on both machines. Do the computer first., Then the iphone.. -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:58 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! I know I've already replied to this eMail but I thought I'd reply again as I've given the subject under discussion a great deal of thought. You want to transfer your media content such as music and so forth from your iPhone to your Windows PC using a USB cable as though your iPhone were a hard drive right/ Well I'm not so sure that this will be as straight forward as we thought it would be and I'm not surprised to hear that you didn't have any success with those Apps which allow the sharing of data between iPods and computers. As I understand it - someone will correct me if I'm wrong I'm sure smile. - iPod sharing Apps were written in the days of the iPod Nano, Shuffle etc well before the iPhones we're using now came along so - if that's the case - then these sharing Apps probably won't work given the iPhone has a different data distribution system, in effect the iPhone is locked and I think the only way to share your iPhones data openly - say music you've downloaded from the iTunes store or music you've aded to your music collection through iTunes - is to jail break the iPhone. Dane Trethowan's iPhone at +61400494862 has had the privlidge of delivering the above eMail to you. On 13 Oct 2014, at 1:46 pm, Jeremy icu8...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, yeah, I was just reading up on the Camera kit for the IPad, after I sent my last message. Unfortunately, the page I found was from 2010, so not sure how accurate the info would be now. May still be worth checking it out if the kit isn't super expensive, if it still works on the 6 plus and IOS8. It's worth noting here though, that it's apparently necessary to jailbreak, in order to have access to the filesystem of the IPads, but the ability to use USB devices, keyboards, microphones, etc sounds pretty neat if it still works. This brings me to ask another question or two, but I'll begin it in a new subject to keep things organized. Thanks and take care. Blessings. On 10/12/2014 8:26 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Yes, I believe so, its the camera kit though I've never played with it and am not sure which IOS devices are supported with it these days. On 13 Oct 2014, at 1:14 pm, Jeremy icu8...@gmail.com wrote: You mention here an adapter from apple that allows you to move files, I assume media specifically, over to directories on the phone from the computer. Do these adapters require software to go along side them to allow access to the phone's filesystem, software like sharepod, etc, and does this allow you to pull music from the device, even without having to have the files already stored within ITunes on the computer? I understand that installing some sort of file manager on the phone would give partial access to those areas allowed to it, if it were connected to dropbox or a wireless device as you mentioned here, but how well does that work for all types of media other than music, like audio books. Also, does installing a file manager on the phone give complete access to all media on a phone, without you having to jealbreak? I'm mainly curious as one major downfall I have with storing my music and books on my phone is the ability to retrieve them from the phone if I no longer have them in my ITunes library on my computer. There's plenty of software for doing this, but as far as I've been able to figure out, not much of it is accessible. If I could purchase an device to make a connection from the phone to the computer and have the ability to copy my media straight over to the phone, I'd be a happy camper for sure. Thanks.
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There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! I’ve decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if you’re using say the iPhone’s “Music Player” App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially we’re referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what can’t be done and focus on what can be done so let’s do that with IOS. The first App you’ll need is a Player and there are several good one’s out there but for the sake of simplicity let’s focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a specific point - computer, Dropbox account etc - right to a folder on your iPhone where you can browse, play and manipulate your files to your hearts content. So this brings us to another possibly challenging topic, iPhones have only so much storage space so what if you have thousands upon thousands of files you wish to access at any one time or supposing your music collection is in a Lossless format that takes up a good deal of space? If this is the case then its time to look at a pocket sized hard drive with a built-in Wi-Fi network, I mentioned my Skyshare drive towards the end of last week and this drive has its own built-in Wi-Fi network which the iPhone can connect to. Once connected the Apps I mentioned earlier - oOplayer and File Browser - have direct access to the drive thus the content you’ve placed too the drive. The Skyshare drive on the surface looks like any other portable hard drive, it has a USB port on the back for connection to a computer with a USB 3.0 port for the copying and manipulation of content, you can also use the Wi-Fi abilities of the drive for copying/manipulating files though this process is considerably slower when compared to USB 3.0 or even 2.
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Hi, I'm sory for my sugestion, I thautht I could help. I'll keep my mouth shut. -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 12:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! I’ve decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if you’re using say the iPhone’s “Music Player” App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially we’re referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what can’t be done and focus on what can be done so let’s do that with IOS. The first App you’ll need is a Player and there are several good one’s out there but for the sake of simplicity let’s focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a specific point - computer, Dropbox account etc - right to a folder on your iPhone where you can browse, play and manipulate your files to your hearts content. So this brings us to another possibly challenging topic, iPhones have only so much storage space so what if you have thousands upon thousands of files you wish to access at any one time or supposing your music collection is in a Lossless format that takes up a good deal of space? If this is the case then its time to look at a pocket sized hard drive with a built-in Wi-Fi network, I mentioned my Skyshare drive towards the end of last week and this drive has its own built-in Wi-Fi network which the iPhone can connect to. Once connected the Apps I mentioned earlier - oOplayer and File Browser - have direct access to the drive thus the content you’ve placed too the drive. The Skyshare drive on the surface looks like any other portable hard drive, it has a USB port on the back for connection to a computer with a USB 3.0 port for the copying and
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Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! Ive decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if youre using say the iPhones Music Player App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially were referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what cant be done and focus on what can be done so lets do that with IOS. The first App youll need is a Player and there are several good ones out there but for the sake of simplicity lets focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a specific point - computer, Dropbox account etc - right to a folder on your iPhone where you can browse, play and manipulate your files to your hearts content. So this brings us to another possibly challenging topic, iPhones have only so much storage space so what if you have thousands upon thousands of files you wish to access at any one time or supposing your music collection is in a Lossless format that takes up a good deal of space? If this is the case then its time to look at a pocket sized hard drive with a built-in Wi-Fi network, I mentioned my Skyshare drive towards the end of last week and
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Don't be sorry for any type of suggestion, as it just adds more content for the list. That's my thinking at least. Either way, as has been stated here, those of us using any of the IOS devices do have to jump through a few more hoops than other types of phone/tablets, but, luckily for me, once I get my stuff on the phone I don't tend to change it a lot. I normally don't even mind using ITunes to manage my media, but as I said before, it does have a few downfalls. I may take a look at this wireless portable hd though, that looks pretty awesome. Take care and blessings. On 10/13/2014 12:01 PM, ken reed wrote: Hi, I'm sory for my sugestion, I thautht I could help. I'll keep my mouth shut. -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 12:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! I’ve decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if you’re using say the iPhone’s “Music Player” App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially we’re referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what can’t be done and focus on what can be done so let’s do that with IOS. The first App you’ll need is a Player and there are several good one’s out there but for the sake of simplicity let’s focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a specific point - computer, Dropbox account etc - right to a folder on your iPhone where you can browse, play and manipulate your files to your hearts content. So this brings us to another possibly challenging topic, iPhones have only so much storage space so what if you have thousands upon thousands of files you wish to access at any one time or supposing your music collection is in a Lossless
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No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! I’ve decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if you’re using say the iPhone’s “Music Player” App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially we’re referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what can’t be done and focus on what can be done so let’s do that with IOS. The first App you’ll need is a Player and there are several good one’s out there but for the sake of simplicity let’s focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a specific point - computer, Dropbox account etc - right to a folder on your iPhone where you can browse, play and manipulate your files to your hearts content. So this brings us to another possibly challenging topic, iPhones have only so much storage space so what if you have thousands upon thousands of files you wish to access at any one time or supposing your music collection is in a Lossless format that takes up a good deal of space? If this is the
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I'd probably normally not like having to always be attached to a wireless device, in order to stream my media from it, but the ability to have that wireless device run from a battery is pretty sweet. Is it possible to make a wireless connection to the hd directly, or does it require a router? Also, how about running/charging this little monster from a car's cigarette plug for power? Take care. On 10/13/2014 4:44 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! I’ve decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if you’re using say the iPhone’s “Music Player” App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially we’re referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what can’t be done and focus on what can be done so let’s do that with IOS. The first App you’ll need is a Player and there are several good one’s out there but for the sake of simplicity let’s focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a specific point - computer, Dropbox account etc - right to a folder on your iPhone where you can browse,
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Hi! The Skyshare HD connects directly to your Wi-Fi of your iPhone so let's run a scenario past the list so as better to explain how it all works. You're sitting on a park bench with iPhone and Skyshare drive in tow. You wish to listen to some music so you reach for your Skyshare and press the power button, hold for a second or so to make sure Drive is switched on, you'll feel the drive power up. Return the drive to your bag, pocket or whatever. Next unlock your iPhone and proceed to settings, go to Wi-Fi and select the Skyshare Wi-Fi network, enter a password where applicable and double-tap on join. Note that if you've previously joined your Skyshare drive's Wi-Fi, entered the Password and have Join Networks Automatically enabled under the Wi-Fi Settings of your iPhone then your iPhone will automatically join Skyshare as soon as it detects the Drive can be accessed. Next from your iPhone launch your favourite Player App, find Skyshare and open the Music folder, browse to the songs you want or use the buttons to select the songs you want and double-tap the selection, music starts playing in order that you may enjoy the outdoors in the sun, the wind, the rain or whatever smile. That's a very basic rundown of how the whoe setup works. As far as charging the drive? Yes, it takes about 2 hours to charge with the supplied AC adapter, it can be used whilst charging. When the drive is connected directly via its USB 3.0 connection to a computer no charging takes place. Hope this helps, I'll be happy to anser any further questions on this drive etc if required. On 14/10/2014 10:35 AM, Jeremy wrote: I'd probably normally not like having to always be attached to a wireless device, in order to stream my media from it, but the ability to have that wireless device run from a battery is pretty sweet. Is it possible to make a wireless connection to the hd directly, or does it require a router? Also, how about running/charging this little monster from a car's cigarette plug for power? Take care. On 10/13/2014 4:44 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! I’ve decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth
Mac Mini Arrived
Okay, I have my new Mac Mini. I won't go into the machine in huge detail as this is an audio list and not a tech type list smile so just the uadio highlights and associated stuff. I guess I should explain why I want a Mac Mini machine? Well actually this is my second Mac Mini machine, the first one I bought - at 5 years old - is now showing its age so time to buy a second. The Newer Mac Mini machine is even smaller than the first, a little thicker than a single CD case and about the same size otherwise,. The machine offers plenty of room for expansion, 4 USB 3.0 ports, Firewire, SD Card Slot, Bluetooth 4.0, Full Wi-Fi Capabilities and so on but the really great advance for me - apart from the outstanding Tech Specs sheet - is the HDMI output so the Mac Mini will connect straight into my Denon AVR2113 AV Receiver and associated TV. Yep, I plan to use the Mac Mini as a Media hub, most other things will be able to access the machine over my Network and this includes my TV/Video Tuner box which can be used by everything from Windows Media Center on my PC'S to my iPhone etc. So to say that the next few days will be a busy few would amount to the understated remark of the year, Flat-Out would be a better term.
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Sounds like flat out bragging to me! Why don't you ever show people how to use this stuff instead of bragging about it? That's not flaming, Dane, it is a valid question, because you always tell us about all of the great toys that you have and never, ever, to my limited knowledge, teach anyone how to use this stuff. If this gets me kicked off of the list, so be it, but, you have some answering to do, don't you? Mac -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:29 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Mac Mini Arrived Okay, I have my new Mac Mini. I won't go into the machine in huge detail as this is an audio list and not a tech type list smile so just the uadio highlights and associated stuff. I guess I should explain why I want a Mac Mini machine? Well actually this is my second Mac Mini machine, the first one I bought - at 5 years old - is now showing its age so time to buy a second. The Newer Mac Mini machine is even smaller than the first, a little thicker than a single CD case and about the same size otherwise,. The machine offers plenty of room for expansion, 4 USB 3.0 ports, Firewire, SD Card Slot, Bluetooth 4.0, Full Wi-Fi Capabilities and so on but the really great advance for me - apart from the outstanding Tech Specs sheet - is the HDMI output so the Mac Mini will connect straight into my Denon AVR2113 AV Receiver and associated TV. Yep, I plan to use the Mac Mini as a Media hub, most other things will be able to access the machine over my Network and this includes my TV/Video Tuner box which can be used by everything from Windows Media Center on my PC'S to my iPhone etc. So to say that the next few days will be a busy few would amount to the understated remark of the year, Flat-Out would be a better term.
RE: Mac Mini Arrived
Super epic Dain! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 9:29 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Mac Mini Arrived Okay, I have my new Mac Mini. I won't go into the machine in huge detail as this is an audio list and not a tech type list smile so just the uadio highlights and associated stuff. I guess I should explain why I want a Mac Mini machine? Well actually this is my second Mac Mini machine, the first one I bought - at 5 years old - is now showing its age so time to buy a second. The Newer Mac Mini machine is even smaller than the first, a little thicker than a single CD case and about the same size otherwise,. The machine offers plenty of room for expansion, 4 USB 3.0 ports, Firewire, SD Card Slot, Bluetooth 4.0, Full Wi-Fi Capabilities and so on but the really great advance for me - apart from the outstanding Tech Specs sheet - is the HDMI output so the Mac Mini will connect straight into my Denon AVR2113 AV Receiver and associated TV. Yep, I plan to use the Mac Mini as a Media hub, most other things will be able to access the machine over my Network and this includes my TV/Video Tuner box which can be used by everything from Windows Media Center on my PC'S to my iPhone etc. So to say that the next few days will be a busy few would amount to the understated remark of the year, Flat-Out would be a better term.
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Don't say that until I've got everything up and running smile, I'm well on the way though. I'm going to install the latest version of Windows and run it alongside OSX using Vmware Fusion, the machine has 16GB of memory so there's more than enough to go round. On 14/10/2014 2:01 PM, Hamit Campos wrote: Super epic Dain! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 9:29 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Mac Mini Arrived Okay, I have my new Mac Mini. I won't go into the machine in huge detail as this is an audio list and not a tech type list smile so just the uadio highlights and associated stuff. I guess I should explain why I want a Mac Mini machine? Well actually this is my second Mac Mini machine, the first one I bought - at 5 years old - is now showing its age so time to buy a second. The Newer Mac Mini machine is even smaller than the first, a little thicker than a single CD case and about the same size otherwise,. The machine offers plenty of room for expansion, 4 USB 3.0 ports, Firewire, SD Card Slot, Bluetooth 4.0, Full Wi-Fi Capabilities and so on but the really great advance for me - apart from the outstanding Tech Specs sheet - is the HDMI output so the Mac Mini will connect straight into my Denon AVR2113 AV Receiver and associated TV. Yep, I plan to use the Mac Mini as a Media hub, most other things will be able to access the machine over my Network and this includes my TV/Video Tuner box which can be used by everything from Windows Media Center on my PC'S to my iPhone etc. So to say that the next few days will be a busy few would amount to the understated remark of the year, Flat-Out would be a better term.
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No answering whatever particularly for those who don't need it. On 14/10/2014 1:59 PM, Mac Norins wrote: Sounds like flat out bragging to me! Why don't you ever show people how to use this stuff instead of bragging about it? That's not flaming, Dane, it is a valid question, because you always tell us about all of the great toys that you have and never, ever, to my limited knowledge, teach anyone how to use this stuff. If this gets me kicked off of the list, so be it, but, you have some answering to do, don't you? Mac -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:29 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Mac Mini Arrived Okay, I have my new Mac Mini. I won't go into the machine in huge detail as this is an audio list and not a tech type list smile so just the uadio highlights and associated stuff. I guess I should explain why I want a Mac Mini machine? Well actually this is my second Mac Mini machine, the first one I bought - at 5 years old - is now showing its age so time to buy a second. The Newer Mac Mini machine is even smaller than the first, a little thicker than a single CD case and about the same size otherwise,. The machine offers plenty of room for expansion, 4 USB 3.0 ports, Firewire, SD Card Slot, Bluetooth 4.0, Full Wi-Fi Capabilities and so on but the really great advance for me - apart from the outstanding Tech Specs sheet - is the HDMI output so the Mac Mini will connect straight into my Denon AVR2113 AV Receiver and associated TV. Yep, I plan to use the Mac Mini as a Media hub, most other things will be able to access the machine over my Network and this includes my TV/Video Tuner box which can be used by everything from Windows Media Center on my PC'S to my iPhone etc. So to say that the next few days will be a busy few would amount to the understated remark of the year, Flat-Out would be a better term.
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Ah, excellent. Only other thing I can think of is would it be possible to charge/power the drive outside of your home, either from a cars cigarette adapter or something similar? Thinking mostly of the 6 or so hour charge time you mentioned before, thinking it'd be pretty neat to take this on some of our longer road trips. Not sure if you've been able to explore that far with it though. Thank you, and take care. Blessings. On 10/13/2014 8:02 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi! The Skyshare HD connects directly to your Wi-Fi of your iPhone so let's run a scenario past the list so as better to explain how it all works. You're sitting on a park bench with iPhone and Skyshare drive in tow. You wish to listen to some music so you reach for your Skyshare and press the power button, hold for a second or so to make sure Drive is switched on, you'll feel the drive power up. Return the drive to your bag, pocket or whatever. Next unlock your iPhone and proceed to settings, go to Wi-Fi and select the Skyshare Wi-Fi network, enter a password where applicable and double-tap on join. Note that if you've previously joined your Skyshare drive's Wi-Fi, entered the Password and have Join Networks Automatically enabled under the Wi-Fi Settings of your iPhone then your iPhone will automatically join Skyshare as soon as it detects the Drive can be accessed. Next from your iPhone launch your favourite Player App, find Skyshare and open the Music folder, browse to the songs you want or use the buttons to select the songs you want and double-tap the selection, music starts playing in order that you may enjoy the outdoors in the sun, the wind, the rain or whatever smile. That's a very basic rundown of how the whoe setup works. As far as charging the drive? Yes, it takes about 2 hours to charge with the supplied AC adapter, it can be used whilst charging. When the drive is connected directly via its USB 3.0 connection to a computer no charging takes place. Hope this helps, I'll be happy to anser any further questions on this drive etc if required. On 14/10/2014 10:35 AM, Jeremy wrote: I'd probably normally not like having to always be attached to a wireless device, in order to stream my media from it, but the ability to have that wireless device run from a battery is pretty sweet. Is it possible to make a wireless connection to the hd directly, or does it require a router? Also, how about running/charging this little monster from a car's cigarette plug for power? Take care. On 10/13/2014 4:44 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and
RE: Mac Mini Arrived
Ah you are tway too funny man. So what you are going to put Win 8.1 on it or are you going to go on the edge and try Win 10? Though I don't think Win 10 has WMC. Not what's out at least. I hope they don't kill WMC it was super epic. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:12 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Mac Mini Arrived Don't say that until I've got everything up and running smile, I'm well on the way though. I'm going to install the latest version of Windows and run it alongside OSX using Vmware Fusion, the machine has 16GB of memory so there's more than enough to go round. On 14/10/2014 2:01 PM, Hamit Campos wrote: Super epic Dain! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 9:29 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Mac Mini Arrived Okay, I have my new Mac Mini. I won't go into the machine in huge detail as this is an audio list and not a tech type list smile so just the uadio highlights and associated stuff. I guess I should explain why I want a Mac Mini machine? Well actually this is my second Mac Mini machine, the first one I bought - at 5 years old - is now showing its age so time to buy a second. The Newer Mac Mini machine is even smaller than the first, a little thicker than a single CD case and about the same size otherwise,. The machine offers plenty of room for expansion, 4 USB 3.0 ports, Firewire, SD Card Slot, Bluetooth 4.0, Full Wi-Fi Capabilities and so on but the really great advance for me - apart from the outstanding Tech Specs sheet - is the HDMI output so the Mac Mini will connect straight into my Denon AVR2113 AV Receiver and associated TV. Yep, I plan to use the Mac Mini as a Media hub, most other things will be able to access the machine over my Network and this includes my TV/Video Tuner box which can be used by everything from Windows Media Center on my PC'S to my iPhone etc. So to say that the next few days will be a busy few would amount to the understated remark of the year, Flat-Out would be a better term.
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Pretty vague answer. I just called you on your USA number. Maybe we should talk, so that you can make some time for helping out those of us who ' need it ' ? -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 8:13 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Mac Mini Arrived No answering whatever particularly for those who don't need it. On 14/10/2014 1:59 PM, Mac Norins wrote: Sounds like flat out bragging to me! Why don't you ever show people how to use this stuff instead of bragging about it? That's not flaming, Dane, it is a valid question, because you always tell us about all of the great toys that you have and never, ever, to my limited knowledge, teach anyone how to use this stuff. If this gets me kicked off of the list, so be it, but, you have some answering to do, don't you? Mac
Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
You could do that certainly, you'll need a cigarette lighter to USB adapter, a lead then goes from that into the power socket of the drive. On 14/10/2014 3:19 PM, Jeremy wrote: Ah, excellent. Only other thing I can think of is would it be possible to charge/power the drive outside of your home, either from a cars cigarette adapter or something similar? Thinking mostly of the 6 or so hour charge time you mentioned before, thinking it'd be pretty neat to take this on some of our longer road trips. Not sure if you've been able to explore that far with it though. Thank you, and take care. Blessings. On 10/13/2014 8:02 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi! The Skyshare HD connects directly to your Wi-Fi of your iPhone so let's run a scenario past the list so as better to explain how it all works. You're sitting on a park bench with iPhone and Skyshare drive in tow. You wish to listen to some music so you reach for your Skyshare and press the power button, hold for a second or so to make sure Drive is switched on, you'll feel the drive power up. Return the drive to your bag, pocket or whatever. Next unlock your iPhone and proceed to settings, go to Wi-Fi and select the Skyshare Wi-Fi network, enter a password where applicable and double-tap on join. Note that if you've previously joined your Skyshare drive's Wi-Fi, entered the Password and have Join Networks Automatically enabled under the Wi-Fi Settings of your iPhone then your iPhone will automatically join Skyshare as soon as it detects the Drive can be accessed. Next from your iPhone launch your favourite Player App, find Skyshare and open the Music folder, browse to the songs you want or use the buttons to select the songs you want and double-tap the selection, music starts playing in order that you may enjoy the outdoors in the sun, the wind, the rain or whatever smile. That's a very basic rundown of how the whoe setup works. As far as charging the drive? Yes, it takes about 2 hours to charge with the supplied AC adapter, it can be used whilst charging. When the drive is connected directly via its USB 3.0 connection to a computer no charging takes place. Hope this helps, I'll be happy to anser any further questions on this drive etc if required. On 14/10/2014 10:35 AM, Jeremy wrote: I'd probably normally not like having to always be attached to a wireless device, in order to stream my media from it, but the ability to have that wireless device run from a battery is pretty sweet. Is it possible to make a wireless connection to the hd directly, or does it require a router? Also, how about running/charging this little monster from a car's cigarette plug for power? Take care. On 10/13/2014 4:44 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app
RE: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
True, but what I meant was that you are dependent on them and they aren't as reliable as say a flash card or a cable connection. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:44 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! Ive decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if youre using say the iPhones Music Player App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially were referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what cant be done and focus on what can be done so lets do that with IOS. The first App youll need is a Player and there are several good ones out there but for the sake of simplicity lets focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a
RE: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
Sorry, if I've missed this, but how large is it in sice? Is it an ssd drive or a - whatever the old spinning discs are called? How much storage space has it got? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 3:02 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! The Skyshare HD connects directly to your Wi-Fi of your iPhone so let's run a scenario past the list so as better to explain how it all works. You're sitting on a park bench with iPhone and Skyshare drive in tow. You wish to listen to some music so you reach for your Skyshare and press the power button, hold for a second or so to make sure Drive is switched on, you'll feel the drive power up. Return the drive to your bag, pocket or whatever. Next unlock your iPhone and proceed to settings, go to Wi-Fi and select the Skyshare Wi-Fi network, enter a password where applicable and double-tap on join. Note that if you've previously joined your Skyshare drive's Wi-Fi, entered the Password and have Join Networks Automatically enabled under the Wi- Fi Settings of your iPhone then your iPhone will automatically join Skyshare as soon as it detects the Drive can be accessed. Next from your iPhone launch your favourite Player App, find Skyshare and open the Music folder, browse to the songs you want or use the buttons to select the songs you want and double-tap the selection, music starts playing in order that you may enjoy the outdoors in the sun, the wind, the rain or whatever smile. That's a very basic rundown of how the whoe setup works. As far as charging the drive? Yes, it takes about 2 hours to charge with the supplied AC adapter, it can be used whilst charging. When the drive is connected directly via its USB 3.0 connection to a computer no charging takes place. Hope this helps, I'll be happy to anser any further questions on this drive etc if required. On 14/10/2014 10:35 AM, Jeremy wrote: I'd probably normally not like having to always be attached to a wireless device, in order to stream my media from it, but the ability to have that wireless device run from a battery is pretty sweet. Is it possible to make a wireless connection to the hd directly, or does it require a router? Also, how about running/charging this little monster from a car's cigarette plug for power? Take care. On 10/13/2014 4:44 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the
Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
I have a 1TB version and there's a 500GB version, think there's a 2TB version. On 14/10/2014 3:20 PM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Sorry, if I've missed this, but how large is it in sice? Is it an ssd drive or a - whatever the old spinning discs are called? How much storage space has it got? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 3:02 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! The Skyshare HD connects directly to your Wi-Fi of your iPhone so let's run a scenario past the list so as better to explain how it all works. You're sitting on a park bench with iPhone and Skyshare drive in tow. You wish to listen to some music so you reach for your Skyshare and press the power button, hold for a second or so to make sure Drive is switched on, you'll feel the drive power up. Return the drive to your bag, pocket or whatever. Next unlock your iPhone and proceed to settings, go to Wi-Fi and select the Skyshare Wi-Fi network, enter a password where applicable and double-tap on join. Note that if you've previously joined your Skyshare drive's Wi-Fi, entered the Password and have Join Networks Automatically enabled under the Wi- Fi Settings of your iPhone then your iPhone will automatically join Skyshare as soon as it detects the Drive can be accessed. Next from your iPhone launch your favourite Player App, find Skyshare and open the Music folder, browse to the songs you want or use the buttons to select the songs you want and double-tap the selection, music starts playing in order that you may enjoy the outdoors in the sun, the wind, the rain or whatever smile. That's a very basic rundown of how the whoe setup works. As far as charging the drive? Yes, it takes about 2 hours to charge with the supplied AC adapter, it can be used whilst charging. When the drive is connected directly via its USB 3.0 connection to a computer no charging takes place. Hope this helps, I'll be happy to anser any further questions on this drive etc if required. On 14/10/2014 10:35 AM, Jeremy wrote: I'd probably normally not like having to always be attached to a wireless device, in order to stream my media from it, but the ability to have that wireless device run from a battery is pretty sweet. Is it possible to make a wireless connection to the hd directly, or does it require a router? Also, how about running/charging this little monster from a car's cigarette plug for power? Take care. On 10/13/2014 4:44 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I
Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
No pleasing some people smile. On 14/10/2014 3:20 PM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: True, but what I meant was that you are dependent on them and they aren't as reliable as say a flash card or a cable connection. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:44 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! I’ve decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if you’re using say the iPhone’s “Music Player” App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially we’re referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what can’t be done and focus on what can be done so let’s do that with IOS. The first App you’ll need is a Player and there are several good one’s out there but for the sake of simplicity let’s focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a specific point - computer, Dropbox account etc - right to a folder on your iPhone where you can browse, play
Alarm Sound on my IPhone 4s working unreliably
Hope this isn't OT, but has to do with audio: I sometimes have the problem that my IPhone alarm doesn't go off, especially when it's charging. The swich for sound is turned on and the alarm is on, telling me when I check that it is turned to slumber. Does anyone know why this is happening? It is pretty annoying since I like the alarm, but find it unreliable. Any help would be appreciated a lot. Alexandra
RE: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
Got me there, but only when it comes to discussing IPhones. smiles back. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 6:38 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device No pleasing some people smile. On 14/10/2014 3:20 PM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: True, but what I meant was that you are dependent on them and they aren't as reliable as say a flash card or a cable connection. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:44 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! Ive decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if youre using say the iPhones Music Player App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially were referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what cant be done and focus on what can be done so lets do that with IOS. The first App youll need is a Player and there are several good ones out there but for the sake of simplicity lets focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both
Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
Yeah okay well I'm not quite sure what you mean by patchy Wireless? If you're talkign about celll coverage then you're one up on me and when I spoke about Wireless I was referring to Wi-Fi meaning the phone's Wi-Fi connectivity being able to connect to the Skyshare Hard Drive, nothing whatever to do with cell networks smile On 14/10/2014 3:51 PM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Got me there, but only when it comes to discussing IPhones. smiles back. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 6:38 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device No pleasing some people smile. On 14/10/2014 3:20 PM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: True, but what I meant was that you are dependent on them and they aren't as reliable as say a flash card or a cable connection. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:44 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! I’ve decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if you’re using say the iPhone’s “Music Player” App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially we’re referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what can’t be done and focus on what can be done so let’s do that with IOS. The first App you’ll need is a Player
