Description
IMPORTANT: this is the page for the original Simplify application. A new, "pro" version called Simplify Music 2 is now available with search, seek, resume, favorites, playlist creation on-the-fly and the ability to send and receive invitations using your iPhone or iPod touch.
The iTunes URL for the new version is:
http://itunes.com/apps/SimplifyMusic
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"It's hard to overstate how useful this is. Simplify Media shares your library so that you can access your music remotely, via iTunes or their fantastic iPhone client. You can also access friends' libraries directly through iTunes, as if they were connected to your LAN. Downloading isn't enabled, but Simplify more than makes up for that with dead-easy setup and reliable streaming." - John Herman, Gizmodo, March 2009
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Access your home computer’s digital music library on your iPhone or iPod Touch, anytime and anywhere with Simplify Media. This app will also enable you to stream music from up to 30 of your friends’ music collections, while viewing artists bios too.
In three easy steps, Simplify Media connects people directly with their content.
1. Download the application from the App Store.
2. Create an account using Simplify Media on a Mac, PC or Linux
3. On your computer, remote music appears right within iTunes
Features:
- Works over WiFi and EDGE/3G
- Easy setup; no router configuration
- View artist bios
- Navigate by artist, album and genre
- Scrobble songs played to your last.fm profile
- Supports MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, FLAC and WMA files
- Now with Compilations and Repeat
Limitations:
- iTunes-purchased DRM tracks can’t be played remotely
- LyricWiki lyrics are no longer available. we are researching alternatives
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- Gizmodo’s 20 Essential iPhone Apps
- TechCrunch’s Top 10 Apps
- PCMag’s 21 Cool iPhone Apps
- Blender’s “The Best List 2008”
- PC Magazine’s 4 star review
- MacWorld: “Best music-streaming app” and one of “Our Favorite iPhone Apps”
“The biggest advantage of Simplify Media is that it lives up to its name: the program is straight forward and easy, doing precisely what it sets out to do. …it delivers on the promise that it makes: that no matter where you go, there your music library is.” – MacWorld
“…tested it out while riding on a computer train in New Jersey – and songs stored in California and New York City streamed in loud and clear.” – Fortune Magazine
What's New in Version 1.2.7
Minor bug fixes
Customer Reviews
Best App sor far!
This is the best app so far it works great over EDGE and Wifi. For those of you who have itunes protected songs that you can't listen to burn those songs to a CD then re-import that CD into itunes and you now have a version of the song that is not protected. Enjoy this App is great!
Excellent!
This is a great application! This is the best solution to have access to all your music when on the road. I've been using the desktop app for months and have been anxiously awaiting this version.
Great job, it seems to be working very well over wifi. Let's hope 3g performance is good too!
Great app, needs some kinks worked out
This is the app I've been waiting for. I've been playing with it for an hour or so on using edge, 3G and Wifi on the iPhone. iTunes DB downloads quickly in all cases, with album artwork, biographies and lyrics not far behind. The UI can be a little shaky, especially the volume slider which gets stuck at 100% and cannot be decreased.
The main issue is actually streaming the music. Perhaps it's because Gizmodo featured the app again the day I was testing and Simplfy's servers were spiking with traffic, but it was very difficult to get any media to play at all. When it did play, it worked well. I was able to switch between albums, artists, etc with reasonably low latency. However, 80% of the time, I'm stuck in buffering mode with my fully charged battery draining quickly!
I will wait until performance improves before inviting friends to share their libraries.
I've been waiting for this app to hit the store. Best of luck getting the kinks worked out!
- Category: Music
- Updated Sep 27, 2009
- Current Version: 1.2.7
- 1.2.7 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 2.8 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: Simplify Media, Inc.
- © 2009 Simplify Media, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.
