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From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:37 PM
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.
.
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Raul A. Gallegos
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