Hi, short answer is no. Here's the excerpt from my original message
quoted below.
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.
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On 4/25/2012 5:23 PM, Jesus Garcia wrote:
Afternoon are you required to link through a face book account?
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Raul A. Gallegos
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 07:38
To: [email protected]
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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