Is there a way to wirelessly play music to my iPhone?

murt1987

I got a strange question. I don't know if there's such a thing but I swear I saw it somewhere and now I can't remember where.

Basically, I have too much music on my iPhone and I would like to be able to delete it all and make room for more stuff. I primarily play my music in the car from my phone to my bluetooth radio. That's fine.

I just want to know if there's a small device out there that can store music which my iphone can recognize(wirelessly or bluetooth) - so I can choose the music from my iPhone when it's connected to my bluetooth radio. I don't mind having an extra small device to carry with with me if it means I can gain 5 or 6 gigs

Thanks

degsie

There are some wifi media devices out there that allow you to connect a hdd or thumbdrive. You connect wirelessly to the device to play music, video etc.

As an example..
http://www.verbatim.com/prod/accessories/wireless-streaming/mediashare-wireless/

Sad Professor

iTunes Home Sharing

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT201779

murt1987

Yes, something like that alright. The San Disk wireless flash drives seem good. Anybody got any experience with them?

Zcott

Sounds like a lot of hassle. Have a look at iTunes Match - all your music stored in the cloud, which you can play on demand. It's about €25 a year.

jester77

Some music services allow you to upload your own music to their servers and then you can stream it from there. This is what I do, and then just use the services app and connect over bluetooth to the car stereo. The apps are pretty good and pre-cache music so you don't have to worry about lack of phone signal if you are passing through an area with poor signal.

degsie

Zcott wrote: »

Sounds like a lot of hassle. Have a look at iTunes Match - all your music stored in the cloud, which you can play on demand. It's about €25 a year.

Good solution provided you are in a good coverage area and don't have a crappy download cap.

murt1987

Yea, that would kind of be the issue for me especially when I'll be using it when driving.

Armonline

Similar to iTunes Match you can use Google Music to store all your Music online for free. If you have any data on your mobile plan you would be mad not to go with online streaming. It will cache all your recent albums and will not find much coverage issues

Zcott

degsie wrote: »

Good solution provided you are in a good coverage area and don't have a crappy download cap.

Download album in advance of driving? These third party hard drives aren't a great solution.

degsie

Zcott wrote: »

Download album in advance of driving? These third party hard drives aren't a great solution.

Only useful if you have enough storage capacity on your phone. I use a wifi connected hdd regularly and it works fine. Also can be shared by several users.

Senecio

Jump on-line and get yourself an older generation iPod Touch with more capacity. I have a work supplied iPhone so it only 16GB but my 6yr old Touch is still going strong and is always in the car.

cnocbui

Get a cheap Android/Windows phone that takes micro SD cards and has bluetooth and use it without a SIM as a media player.

Allyall

Raspberry Pi and Portable Hard Drive - That is one example, I'd imagine there are hundreds.

http://www.techradar.com/how-to/computing/how-to-build-the-best-raspberry-pi-2-media-server-1298503






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degsie

Again, streaming solutions would be great if we all lived in a world where there is uninterrupted coverage and limitless download capacity. We aint there just yet...