MarkelSoft iPlayAnywhere for iTunes - securely access and play your iTunes Music Library from anywhere using any web browser. Support includes the popular Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera browsers. It’s as easy as starting iPlayAnywhere on your PC, sending an email invitation to yourself or someone else, then clicking a link in the email to access and play remotely. The built-in audio and video players can play individual songs or your playlists.

New features include shrink mode, signout from web page or PC user manager, optional auto rebuild on restart, security, User Manager and invite by playlist.
Shrink mode shrinks the display to a small icon displayed in the lower-right hand corner ofyour desktop. The -silent mode now runs iPlayAnywhere in shrink mode silently which is useful for running iPlayAnywhere in the background when Windows starts up.

Special considerations for use with a Router/Firewall.

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 iPlayAnywhere to run in th background when Windows starts up.

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.

For Windows Vista and Windows XP.

When security is enabled, the user must first login to gain secure access to the associated iTunes Music Library. Secure access sign in window.
If security is not enabled, no username and password is required to access the full library or playlist.

The initial default display is the tab "My Music Home Page" which displays all of your playlists. To see all the tracks in selected playlist, select Playlist Details.
The "My iTunes Music Library" tab displays all the tracks in your Music Library. This display is also useful in that it allows you to download any track (in a ZIP file).
The "Audio" tab displays only songs.
The "Video" tab displays only videos such as TV Shows and movies.
The "Artwork" tab display any track artwork found. Note: if including artwork is turned off, nothing is displayed here.
The "Invite User" tab is used to send an invitation for viewing and playing your full music library to another user. For more specific
invitations use the PC client which can send invitations for everything or a specific playlist as well as keeping track of all the users
and groups..


iPlayAnywhere Home Page:



Sign Out:

Sign out the logged in user (in this case guest)

Playlist Details:

Displays playlist entries for the selected playlist. Selecting an individual entry plays that playlist entry. Playing a playlist will automatically play the full playlist. Displaying playlist details allows for playing specific playlist entries.

How It Works:

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 iPlayAnywhere for iTunes home page can be used to send email invitations. Use the home page to send invitations from anywhere using your web browser.

Any web browser can be used to access and play your iTunes Music Library. Click the link in the email invitation or use iPlayAnwhwhere.com if your Web Server is published to go to the iPlayWhere for iTunes Home Page. Single songs, podcasts, TV shows, movies or playlists can be played.

How to access your iPlayAnywhere 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

To add your Web Server to the MarkelSoft public web database follow these steps:

• Run iPlayAnywhere for iTunes
• Go to the Help->iPlayAnywhere.com password... menu to acquire your iPlayAnywhere.com password. do not give this password out as it is your personal password for accessing iPlayAnywhere.com
  Go to the Help->Publish Server for iPlayAnywhere.com... menu to add or manage your Web Server.
  Use iPlayAnywhere anytime to find your Web Server.

(If you prefer to keep your Web Server private, you can still use the normal email method of sending an email invitation to yourself or others)

Application Toolbar:

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

Test Web Access - used to test the web access to your library.

Refresh - refreshes the song list. This option reprocessing all the iTunes Music Library songs, podcasts, TV shows, movies and playlists.

Refresh Playlists - refresh the playlists only. This option only reprocesses playlists not actual iTunes Music Library entries.

Expand - expands/collapses window to show/hide song list.Song list is hidden by default.

iTunes - display the iTunes application.

Include Artwork - indicates whether or not to include artwork. Not including the artwork makes the program processing go much faster since the artwork image files are not created on disk.

Arrow - changes to shrinked mode.

To exit shrink mode, click on the shrinked window icon.

The stop light is green if iPlayAnywhere is ready or red if processing has not completed.

Application Status Area:

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 full IP address of the iPlayAnywhere Home Page. This is the IP Address sent with the invitation.

Clicking the status area displays the iPlayAnywhere 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 Tabs:

My Music Home Page - initial web page shown containing all of your playlists. Select a playlist to play. Once a playlist is selected, click Playlist Details to display a separate window showing all of the songs in the playlist. Select a specific song to play that song.

Your iTunes Music Library - display the main page containing your iTunes Music Library files.

Audio - displays only audio files.

Video - displays only video files.

Artwork - displays an artwork viewer for browsing through all the artwork images.

Invite User - send an email invitation to access your iTunes Music Library remotely. Email contains web address of iPlayAnywhere for iTunes Home Page.

Home Page Actions:

Clicking a heading already selected toggles the sort (ascending/descending)

Clicking another heading sorts on that heading
Click the play icon to play the song or video. An embedded version of the Windows Media Player is used as the player. Audio and Video Player

Click the saveAs icon to save the song in zip format

Selecting a playlist entry, plays all the songs in that playlist

Select a skin changes the display look ‘n feel.

If the file is a supported audio format the iPlayAnywhere for iTunes embedded player is displayed.

If the file is a supported video format, the iPlayAnywhere for iTunes embedded player is displayed.

If the file is not a supported format, a window is display to try to get the browser to handle playing the file.If the browser can not handle the file, you will seee garbage in the window.In this can it is recommended to us the SaveAs functionality to download a .zip file containing the song/video, unzip and then play with another available media player.

Features:

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. Browser example.

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