How do I stream my music from iTunes to my iPhone?

June 27, 2010 7:11 PM

How to stream from iTunes to iPhone (now that Simplify Media is shutting down)?

I was a big fan of Simplify - until they shut down. What are good alternatives? I know of SubSonic and ooTunes already, but I'd prefer something integrated better into iTunes and not very expensive.

posted by aberrant to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Neither the fantastic iphone / web interface of soma.fm nor the application fstream are quite what you're after, but they are something to tide you over until you see what google does with simplify.
posted by eccnineten at 10:07 PM on June 27, 2010

Google's announced what they're doing with Simplify. They're building a system to stream your music collection to your Android phone. I'd say wait and see what Apple does with LaLa instead, they're probably moving in the same direction, ultimately.
posted by Oktober at 10:28 PM on June 27, 2010

I've been using the StreamToMe/ServeToMe combo. It is way better than Simplify. It will even transcode videos on the fly. I don't use it a lot, but when I do, it's like magic.
posted by adamrice at 7:26 AM on June 28, 2010

Mac or Windows?

If Mac, check out Remote Buddy. Also, Dot.Tunes is a possible solution (requires an extra client on your Mac besides iTunes but it integrates with your library).

A more rudimentary and techy way here, here, or here.

There are plenty of services that let you upload your library to their servers for a monthly fee and then play it back on your iPhone (mSpot, etc), but that's not ideal.
posted by sprocket87 at 1:47 PM on June 28, 2010

Also, previously.
posted by sprocket87 at 1:50 PM on June 28, 2010