Listen to your home iTunes library from almost anywhere
I’ve got gigs and gigs of music on my home desktop. I’ve got some podcasts and a few choice albums on my office desktop. If only I could listen to the music on my home PC at work. Or, better yet, on my laptop while on the road. What would be totally amazing is the ability to listen to anything from the libraries of up to 30 of my friends. Wait. What? You mean Simplify Media has software that will let you do all these things? No F’in way! I gotta get me some of that!
My username is “travelinlibrarian” for those wanting to share. I’ll add anyone right now but when I hit the limit I’ll need to start cutting people so you’d better have some interesting music. Me, I’ve got more than a full week worth of Bowie for your listening pleasure. Also, you can not copy files between accounts so I think that’s how they’re “legal”. I’m still wondering how long it’ll be before someone sues them…
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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I’ve got gigs and gigs of music on my home desktop. I’ve got some podcasts and a few choice albums on my office desktop. If only I could listen to the music on my home PC at work. Or, better yet, on my laptop while on the road. What would be totally amazing is the ability to listen to anything from the libraries of up to 30 of my friends. Wait. What? You mean Simplify Media has software that will let you do all these things? No F’in way! I gotta get me some of that!
