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Ways to securely remotely access your iTunes Music Library or a specific playlist

1. Mobile using iPad, Phone or iPod Touch - using the FREEStreamTunes mobile app. Use the Setup iPhone -> iPhone App setup information provided by StreamTunes for iTunes, running on your PC, to configure the app.
2. Facebook - using FREE facebook app: http://apps.facebook.com/streamtunes/
3. Any web browser - such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari or Opera
• Use Invite to send the user an email containing information on accessing your iTunes Music Library. This includes a link to access the library and user credentials if a silent login is not being done.
• Using Security to require secure credentials (username and password) for logging in.
• For invitations using Invite, silently logging allows for automatically passing the users credentials and silently logging in for the user.
• You can also turn off the security if you do not want to require your users to login.

Screen snapshots for StreamTunes for iTunes, browser and iPhone user interface.

New features

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) for MPEG (M4V, MP4 etc...) videos. Real-time conversion and segmentation. See info at Apple.com
Fully redesigned user interface for web browsers to more closely match iPhone user interface.Fully redesigned user interface for web browsers to more closely match iPhone user interface.
Support for radio streams in playlists. Can now copy and add iTunes radio stream links to a playlist and have them played in StreamTunes for iTunes and StreamTunes for the iPhone.

Special considerations

Use with a Router/Firewall - Use Router Setup, see below, first then look here for things to know if you are using a Router and/or Firewall and how to make sure you have Internet access to the StreamTunes web server.

Security and the User Manager for managing user names and groups for secure sign in access. Also lists signed in users which can be selectively signed off from the PC. User can signout from the web pages.

Email Manager for managing invitation email addresses. Also the email addresses can be used by the Security Manager as user names.

Special options for program startup. The user is now prompted on program startup asking whether to re-scan the iTunes Music Library or not. A new -noinit
option has also been added to turn off automatic re-scanning. A -silent option is used when scheduling StreamTunes to run in th background when Windows starts up.

Select a playlist and the page below is displayed showing all the playlist tracks. Then select the t rack to play.

The Application runs on your PC and works with iTunes to acquire the list of all your songs, podcasts, TV shows, movies, and playlists in your iTunes Music Library.

The application is used to send an email invitation containing information on accessing your iTunes Music Library using a web browser. The application itself or the StreamTunes for iTunes home page can be used to send email invitations. Use the home page to send invitations from anywhere using your web browser.

A iPhone or any web browser can be used to access and play your iTunes Music Library. Click the link in the email invitation.

How to access your StreamTunes web server behind a router/firewall. Also: special considerations.

For any Firefox browser player problems see: Firefox Windows Media Player plug-in issues (such as music playing but no player visible in the window or no music player at all)

For other player issues see: General Windows Media Player plug-in issues

Refresh - refreshes the song list. This option reprocessing all the iTunes Music Library songs, podcasts, TV shows, movies and playlists.
Test Media Server Access - used to test the web access to your library using the StreamTunes.tv portal. In order to do this you must be registered.

Invite User - used to send an email invitation allowing remote access

Setup iPhone - displays information to setup your iPhone StreamTunes application, if purchased.
Setup Router - use to easily setup your Router's port forwarding which is required by StreamTunes. The Simple Port Forwarding program is pre-configured for the correct port 8090. Make sure the IP address used by Simple Port Forwarding is current.
Register - register your media server with the streamTunes.tv portal using an email and password as credentials. These credentials are used for logging in using https://www.streamtunes.tv and by the mobile iOS StreamTunes app.

For Simple Port Forwarding you just need to select your Router then click Update Router. You will be prompted for your Router username and password.

Enable Security - turn security on enabling username/password authentication.
Include Album Artwork - turn on adding album artwork. Currently used in iPad StreamTunes mobile app.
Right arrow - changes to shrinked mode.
Also Add - when selected indicates to add any files in the My Pictures, My Documents, My Web Documents and Other Stuff folders and make them available via StreamTunes.
These will show up at the end of the StreamTunes main web page, iPhone Safari web page or iPhone StreamTunes application main window.
(n) on the button, e.g. My Pictures (52), indicates the number of files in the folder.

My Pictures - this folder contains any pictures you want available. Click My Pictures to open the folder then drag n drop pictures to the folder.

My Documents - this folder contains any pictures you want available. Click My Documents to open the folder then drag n drop documents to the folder.

My Web Documents - this folder contains any pictures you want available. Click My Web Documents to open the folder then drag n drop web documents (Internet web page links) to the folder.

NO users - this area indicates the number of logged in users. Users are defined using the User Manager and are used for secure access when Security is enabled.

To exit shrink mode, click on the shrinked window icon.
The stop light is green if StreamTunes is ready or red if processing has not completed.

Stop light: has two states green for web server ready or red for web server not ready.

A Web Server not ready or ready status text is displayed along with the registered email address.

Clicking the status area displays the StreamTunes Home Page as does clicking the Test Web Access toolbar button.

The last part of the status area indicates how many iTunes Music Library songs (songs, podcast, TV shows and movies) were found and their total size.

Application runs on your PC (web server) and is accessible via any web browser (client).

Gets song list from iTunes and makes available via a built-in web server. All artwork thumbnails are clickable which when clicked will show the full-size artwork image.

Remotely access and play your iTunes Music Library using any browser.

Send invitations for accessing your iTunes Music Library via email to yourself or your friends.

Sort by clicking on the web page heading. Clicking the same heading again toggles the sort.The default sort is ascending by song name.

Very easy to setup.

Standards support: iTunes interface