SimplifyMedia is an iPhone app that lets you play iTunes music and other media files from your home computer anywhere you have an Internet connection with your iPhone. It works over EDGE and 3G as well as WiFi, although the time it takes to stream a song or video will depend on connection speed.
It also lets you access the iTunes libraries of up to 30 friends. It won’t stream DRM-protected music, so any music purchased from iTunes most likely won’t work (unless it comes from iTunes Plus), only DRM-less formats like mp3s will stream.
It works on a PC, Mac, or Linux, and requires you to create a free account with SimplifyMedia on your home computer. It requires no router configuration.
SimplifyMedia is free for the first 100,000 downloads but will cost $3.99 afterwards.
Video demo:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8DaD1Dtyl8
- Name: SimplifyMedia
- Developer: Simplify Media, Inc.
- Cost: Free (for the first 100,000 downloads)
- iTunes Download: Click here
#1 by Tom on August 20th, 2008
Quote
This thing truly sucks. First, sound quality is very, very bad – XM or FM quality at best, and actually worse. I’m picky about sound, but my wife is not, and she doesn’t mind the compressed sound of XM, but she noticed the awful sound of Simplify immediately. Second, it doesn’t want to stream entire songs, and that’s only when it feels like displaying my entire collection. And then it will randomly NOT show parts of the collection that were just there a moment ago, but if you close out, go back in, let it reload, things will be there that were not there (and vice versa.) Very sloppy app, very disappointing performance and sound quality. Pass on this one.
#2 by Jasmine Hopkins on April 27th, 2010
Quote
I have been perusing a few of your posts and have enjoyed it. Keep it up