Remote Streaming from iTunes to iPhone/iPod Touch

by Jody Mitoma on April 27, 2008 at 11:57 pm

A Mac® is required to use Remote Buddy and its AJAX Remote. Windows® is NOT supported.

Remote Buddy has been updated, releasing new features, and a brand new interface, which looks fantastic! One of the new tools added is the ability to playback complete playlists and albums automatically.

A remote control
Control more than 95 applications, system parameters and Remote Buddy itself - just like with any other supported remote.

A presenter trackpad - touch your presentations!
Touch the live updating mini version of your desktop to reposition your mouse cursor on screen. Access multiple screens, toggle Mousespot, perform mouse clicks or navigate your presentation.

A keyboard
Type text on your Mac® through your iPhone’s browser.

Browsing Remote Buddy’s menu
Access the fully configurable, powerful menu that has made Remote Buddy so popular - animated, AJAX-based, right on your iPhone™!

An iTunes® remote & media playback device
Livesearch, music library browsing, editing playlists, switching AirTunes™ speakers, playback of compatible iTunes® media directly on your device (”streaming”), rating songs, viewing covers, setting volume, repeat, playback position and shuffle - there’s hardly an aspect of iTunes®, that you could not control through Remote Buddy’s AJAX Remote.

Launching VIDEO_TS folders on your Mac®
Interfacing with Remote Buddy’s Movie Library, the Movies section is showing any covers it can find, and starts playback of your selections in DVD Player or VLC.

Zap in EyeTV and start playback of its recordings
Browse your channels and recordings and see your Mac® switch to them as you touch them.

Here’s how you would set up Remote Buddy:

Download the application and launch it, then select File > Preferences from the menubar.
Click on Hardware then, on the left, choose Virtual Receiver
Click the checkbox next to AJAX Remote to make it active
AJAX Remote will appear on the left, with an iPhone icon. Select it.
If a password is desired, click Require password and enter one.
If you want to be able to view your Desktop on your iPhone, make sure that Allow viewing the desktop via the browser is checked
Under Interfaces and URLs you can use to access AJAX Remote, you’ll find the URLs you can use to access your Mac via your iPhone. In our case, two entries appeared and the second (en1) allowed a proper connection. To make sure it works, click one and press the Open in browser button.

You can get the free 30 day trial to test out the product, and if you’re satisfied with what you’ve got, pay $19.99 for the full license.

This looks fairly neat, and I’d give it a try myself, if only I had a Mac. Please let us know how it is via comments if you get a chance to try it out. Thanks!

Read more about the product by checking out the source link provided below.

(Source: IO Spirit)