This sounds very cool, no need to fill up your phone with music if you can stream it through itunes, right???
Fred Olver ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:37 AM Subject: Streaming all your music to your iPhone or iPod using Audio Galaxy > Hi all. I just want to share my experiences with this app. If you have > heard of iTunes Match or Google Music, they are services where you can > listen to your music from your iPhone or iPod anywhere you have online > access. I won't get into all the details of iTunes Match or Google Music, > but I will tell you about Audio Galaxy. First off, it's free. Second, it > doesn't have a 25,000 song limit like iTunes Match does. Third, if your > audio is comprised of many different formats such as mp3, wma, ogg, wav, > ETC, it's all playable with Audio Galaxy because it re-encodes your music > when it streams it to your device. > > First the iTunes link to download the app. > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audiogalaxy-mobile/id373357030?mt=8 > > Next the Audio Galaxy web site. > http://www.audiogalaxy.com > > You have to sign up with Audio Galaxy and create an account. You can make > a stand alone account or you can link your Facebook account with it and > that creates your account. Once you do that, from your mac or windows pc, > you download the Audio Galaxy helper. This is a small program which runs > all the time from your machine. This means that your computer must be > online and logged in so that you can stream your audio from anywhere. Once > the helper is downloaded and installed it will by default add the user > account music folder to the list so that everything you have there is > available. If you want to add additional folders, you need to right-click > the helper from the system tray, and choose the manage folders link. This > opens a list of all your folders in the standard Windows open dialog. > Sorry Mac users, I don't know how to do this from the Mac. Unfortunately > for windows users, arrowing through the folders doesn't give you keyboard > access on checking and unchecking the folders you want to select. However, > at least with Window-Eyes users, if you know how to use the mouse pointer, > you can do this. If you are using another screen reader, I don't know how > to tell you the following. Reading the steps for Window-Eyes users might > help you do the equivalent in your preferred screen reader though. > > Assuming you are using the default layout of Window-Eyes, when the folder > selection dialog opens, use your regular arrows to navigate this tree. > Window-Eyes will tell you if the folder is checked, unchecked, or > partially checked. If it is partially checked, it means you can right > arrow the folder to see subfolders and one or more of those is checked. > Now to check or uncheck a folder to be excluded or included in Audio > Galaxy's folder list, do the following. > > 1. Arrow to the folder you want to add or remove. > > 2. Route the mouse pointer to the focus by pressing Insert-Numpad-Plus. > > 3. Press Numpad-5 to read the current line under the mouse to make sure it > reads out the folder you want to add or remove. > > 4. If it doesn't, use Numpad-8 or Numpad-2 to move the mouse up or down a > line at a time so you can reach the folder you want. > > 5. Once the mouse pointer is on the folder you want, press Numpad-4 or > Numpad-6 to move left or right by characters until you reach the first > character of the folder name. For example if the folder I want to add is > called "Music Hits 2012" I would place the mouse pointer on the M of > Music. > > 6. Here's the slightly tricky part. You have to move the mouse pointer to > the left a little to place it on the check box to toggle whether this > folder is included or not. If it's unchecked, it will be checked and vice > versa. To do this, press Control-Shift-Numpad-4 a total of 5 times. This > might vary depending on your screen resolution, but 5 times seems to be > enough in the situations I've tried.. > > 7. Once the mouse pointer is on the check box, press the left-click > button, Numpad-slash to toggle the check box. The slash key is located > directly above the Numpad-8. > > If there are other folders visible on the screen which you want to toggle > to checked or unchecked, you can repeat steps 4 through 8 as needed. > However if the folder you want to work with next isn't visible on the > screen, you will have to navigate to it starting with step 1. > > Once you have your folders set, you don't really have to mess with them. > If you add any new music or remove old music, and this new or old music is > inside a subfolder of an already selected folder, Audio Galaxy will > automatically update the database. So for example if you just have the > Music folder added, the default one, you can add or remove artist-titled > subfolders inside it and you don't have to update anything as far as Audio > Galaxy is concerned. > > Now, the mobile app. This is an app which runs on the iPhone and iPod, and > probably the iPad. It is very Voice Over friendly and if you are looking > at playing music you search for, or music at random, it is easy to > navigate. There are other features such as tagging certain songs, or > making your own playlists, but I haven't messed with that much. I read on > the site that the current versions of the app allow you to create an > account so you don't have to use the Audio Galaxy web site, but since I've > had my account for 2 years now, I can't confirm this. Just so you know, > Audio Galaxy isn't just for listening to your music and audio from an iOS > device. You can fire up your second computer and login to the Audio Galaxy > web site, log in, and see your music there for streaming. However since > the web site isn't the most screen reader friendly, I haven't used it like > this. Besides which, my main reason for using this service is to stream to > my iPhone when I'm doing chores in the house, or when I'm on a road trip > or visiting family in another city. > > I think I pretty much covered it all, at least the basics. I really don't > know much more about this app other than what I've written here. > > Happy listening. > . > -- > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com > Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 > Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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