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Stream your music on your iPhone or mobile with the free Audiogalaxy app

By Dennis Guten on February 20, 2011 No Comments

Want to listen to your large library of music without putting the collection on your mobile device? I was looking at some apps for my iPhone 4 in the iTunes App Store using the Genius tab, which suggests apps based on apps you already have and came across this cool free one.

It’s called Audiogalaxy and lets you stream your music library from your computer to your iOS or Android device. It works over WiFi or 3G service.

When you sign up, you download a small helper file to the computer where your music is, in my case my iTunes music library with almost 7000 songs on my iMac at home. That’s where my master music collection resides. It works on both PC and Mac.

Once you have your free account, you can login to Audiogalaxy in your browser (works on most browsers) and it will start scanning your music in. Go have a cup of coffee and surf the web as this will take a while.

After the music is scanned in, the fun begins. You can play your music from the browser on any computer that you have logged into Audiogalaxy with. You can now also stream your music from your mobile device using the free Audiogalaxy app you download. Your computer with the music must be on and not in sleep mode for it to work.

I tried this at my job at UT Dallas, where they have a robust firewall and it worked great all over campus switching from 3G to WiFi as I went on my daily walk across campus with my headphones on. I never lost the streaming signal.

When you open the iPhone app, you get lots of choices of how to view your library. As you scroll through your collection it streams the little album icons if there was one (fast). Here you see it bringing in the last two in this page of albums.

The only thing I see missing is a view by song name, which would be helpful like I get in my iPod app on the phone. You can also save playlists of songs you have listened to in the app.

The Audiogalaxy web site gives all the details of what the service can do better than I can here, so go take a look. SeeĀ Audiogalaxy in the Apple iTunes App Store and Audiogalaxy in the Android Market.

Yes, Audiogalaxy was a file sharing service back in the early 2000’s, which was shut down. It has been resurrected by three UT Austin former students, two of whom, worked on the original file sharing site.

Is there a reason not to download and try out this free app? I can’t think of one.

Categories : Apple, Cloud Software, Internet, iPhone, UT Dallas
Tags : App, Apple, Free, iPhone 4, Music, Streaming

Visiting David in College Station (Texas A&M) and working

By Dennis Guten on October 15, 2008 No Comments

On Monday Ruthie, my brother-in-law Jack Antebi and Ruthie’s co-worker, Regaynel Poplion came down to College Station, Texas for a continuing education session that was being put on at A&M University. the Texas Transportation Institute is hosting the sessions and Jack works for them.

A&M

I got to come along because “have Apple Powerbook and WiFi – will travel” applies in my business as a freelance web designer.

I just set up my little portable office in the motel and plug away at my work.

We got 2 bonuses on this trip.

1 – We got to have dinner twice with our son David, who attends A&M. his girlfriend Amy even got away from her studies to meet us for one dinner.

2 – Regaynel Poplion happens to be Amber Poplion’s mom. The fact that she was able to come with us means that Amber is doing great and Regaynel can get away for a few days for work. I think she is due to finally leave the rehab facility and go home very soon. She did get to go home for a few hours last week and today is supposed to go the Texas State Fair!

Categories : Apple, Family Stuff, Freelance, Ruthie, Web Design
Tags : A&M, Apple, Freelance, Ruthie

Leopard installed on laptop

By Dennis Guten on February 1, 2008 No Comments

On Tuesday night I installed Mac OS X Leopard on my Powerbook G4 laptop.

I wish I could say it went 100% without casualties, but nope, not true.

The installation went just fine from the upgrade dvd that came with mom’s new Mac Mini.

A few minor shareware apps stopped working, but the main casualties I have are Fireworks MX and Flash MX. I don’t do a lot of work in Flash, but I work daily in Fireworks.

I have other programs with feature sets similar to Fireworks, but nothing that will open the already created .png graphics files I have with the original layers intact.

This is a problem since I have tons of those, for work and personal use.

I’m currently trying the 30-day trial of the Fireworks CS3 program and may have to break down and buy the program! Oy.

Categories : Apple, Flash, Software
Tags : Apple, Fireworks, Leopard, Mac, Upgrade
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