![]() If you press this the view is replaced by a page of thumbnails, making it much easier to look through and select something. This is where the little icon in the bottom right next to Refresh comes in very handy. As you can see from the screenshot, my photos are not called anything useful so it is difficult to find something specific without scrolling through the whole list. If you want to look at your photos, just choose Photos and you will see a menu offering you All Photos, sorted by date, folder and also playlists again.Ĭhoosing All Photos will list all of your photos in a small thumbnail list with the photo title. This makes it very quick to find something specific that you might want to listen to. The Playlists menu is interesting as it shows you what you have most played, last played, recently added or even highly rated. I would much prefer this than think it will work fine and have the song stopping every few seconds – so well done HP! I was very happy to see that I was given a warning message and the song would not play because I was on a low speed connection. One thing you need to remember is that because you are streaming the songs from your Windows Home Server, over the Internet (if you are listening to it outside of your home network) that bandwidth plays a really important part of the process. If you click on the List Music button on the top right hand corner you will see a view of all the songs on that album. When you have chosen the song you want to listen to it will start playing and you will see information on the song, artist, duration and more. Select the album you want to listen to and you will see a list of song titles and information, plus the ability to shuffle them and listen to them in a random order. So let’s say you want to see all the albums, just press Album to see what you have available. You will then have the choice to display your music by Album, All Tracks, Artist/Album, Folder, Genre/Artist/Album or Playlist. If you want to listen to your music, just press the Music button. So let’s take a look at each of these in turn and see what you can do. ![]() If you press the About button on the Settings page you can see information on the iStream application. If you want to change the settings at any time, just press the icon in the bottom left hand corner and then press Open Settings to return to the settings page, or Go Home to return to the 3 folders page. ![]() The details you enter will then be verified, and if successful you will see the 3 familiar shared folders – Music, Photos and Videos. If you connect to more than one Windows Home Server, you can press the History button to see the servers you have already connected to, making it quick and easy to reconnect. If you only want to stream internally on your home network you can just type in the name of your Windows Home Server, but remember that outside of your network that just isn’t enough information to connect! Then you need to tell it a few details about your server, specifically the server details, the user account name and user account password used to access the shared content.įor server, you will need to type in the full domain, for example (where WHATEVER is the name you used when you configured remote access for your Windows Home Server. Once you have installed iStream via whichever method you choose, just select it from wherever it has been placed on your device. The other way to get iStream is to do a search in the App Store directly from your device. You can also read more about it by clicking on it. You will then see the HP MediaSmart Server iStream application (as shown in the screenshot below).Ĭlick Get App to start the download and then just connect up and sync your device to install it. The first is to launch iTunes on your computer, click on the iTunes Store and do a search for MediaSmart. So, if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch (2nd generation, not the 1st generation model), there are two ways you can get the iStream application. This assumes that you have already installed and configured the HP MediaSmart Server 2.5 update and have enabled remote access and media sharing. So, for those of you who have been following the recent release of the HP MediaSmart Server 2.5 Update, you will be aware of the application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, called iStream, that enables you to connect to your Windows Home Server and stream your digital content.
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