![]() Playback is smooth and the application responds quickly. In practice I’ve found the streaming to work extremely well on video formatted for the iPhone. The app will also access video content from iTunes meaning all video located on your Mac Mini will be accessible on your iPhone, no matter what size phone you have. Once the server app is installed you can add local video sources which can then be accessed from the iPhone. Similar to last.fm, you can build up playlists and it has a pretty comprehensive library.ĪirVideo is an app for the iphone that will display streamed video from your Mac or PC. Grooveshark is a more US centric streaming site which is Flash based and free as long as you don’t mind adverts. More well know for music scrobbling and keeping stat’s on what you and your friends listen to, you can also setup a custom radio station and stream music for free, or stream what your friends are listening to. Bliss.Īnother streaming option is last.fm. When that day comes I can switch off the TV and the front end of Spotify and use the iPhone to control my music. I look forward to the day that Remoteless, an iPhone app that offers full control of Spotify from the iphone, supports a Mac helper app as it’s Windows only at the moment. There is a premium option available that improves the audio quality and removes the adverts…which aren’t too obtrusive although the client has got very busy with the random adverts that appear on it. Download the client and over 6 million tracks are available for free. There are many streaming music options now available online. Either app will act as a great recorder for radio so you can’t really go wrong but despite Snowtape being a slightly stronger app I’d choose Radioshift for it’s greater guide. Also, Snowtape includes a built in editor unlike Radioshift. Snowtape uses an online directory to make radio shows available although I’ve found it to be less complete than the guide in Radioshift. This is a very similar application to Radioshift but with a slightly slicker front end. You can also export audio into iTunes making it easy to listen to recordings on your iPod or iPhone.Īnother option for radio is Snowtape. There is no built in audio editor but Radioshift can hand off editing to any installed editor. Playback is simple via the application which will also install any missing plugins to maximise the amount of stations it can support. You also get to see what is popular now and filter stations by genre, location or by full text search. The guide is impressive and had a lot of UK content although some of the local stations didn’t have a show list. Radioshift will record multiple shows at the same time and even wake the Mac form sleep so it never misses a show. You can use Radioshift to subscribe to a show and listen to it live but more impressive is that the application can record the show just like Sky+ does for TV. The big plus is seeing individual radio shows. Using the guide you can search for stations or individual shows and subscribe to them in the application. At the heart of the application is the Radio Guide. Radioshift can be thought of as a PVR for radio. If you are serious about your radio there are two options that really stand out However searching is limited, the streams don’t contain many popular stations and it feels like a tacked on option. ![]() The most obvious is via iTunes which comes preloaded with hundred’s of stations. There are many way to listen to radio via the Mac. ![]() While this is my main reason for buying a Mini there is a lot more you can do with it – listen to radio, stream audio and video and play games. Our last few posts on using a Mac Mini as a Media Centre device have focussed on using Media Centre software like Plex and Boxee to playback locally stored content.
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