Hi!
The Skyshare HD connects directly to your Wi-Fi of your iPhone so let's
run a scenario past the list so as better to explain how it all works.
You're sitting on a park bench with iPhone and Skyshare drive in tow.
You wish to listen to some music so you reach for your Skyshare and
press the power button, hold for a second or so to make sure Drive is
switched on, you'll feel the drive power up.
Return the drive to your bag, pocket or whatever.
Next unlock your iPhone and proceed to settings, go to Wi-Fi and select
the Skyshare Wi-Fi network, enter a password where applicable and
double-tap on join.
Note that if you've previously joined your Skyshare drive's Wi-Fi,
entered the Password and have Join Networks Automatically enabled under
the Wi-Fi Settings of your iPhone then your iPhone will automatically
join Skyshare as soon as it detects the Drive can be accessed.
Next from your iPhone launch your favourite Player App, find Skyshare
and open the Music folder, browse to the songs you want or use the
buttons to select the songs you want and double-tap the selection, music
starts playing in order that you may enjoy the outdoors in the sun, the
wind, the rain or whatever <smile>.
That's a very basic rundown of how the whoe setup works.
As far as charging the drive? Yes, it takes about 2 hours to charge with
the supplied AC adapter, it can be used whilst charging.
When the drive is connected directly via its USB 3.0 connection to a
computer no charging takes place.
Hope this helps, I'll be happy to anser any further questions on this
drive etc if required.
On 14/10/2014 10:35 AM, Jeremy wrote:
I'd probably normally not like having to always be attached to a
wireless device, in order to stream my media from it, but the ability
to have that wireless device run from a battery is pretty sweet. Is it
possible to make a wireless connection to the hd directly, or does it
require a router? Also, how about running/charging this little monster
from a car's cigarette plug for power?
Take care.
On 10/13/2014 4:44 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active
all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you
don't?
On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer <al.gruena...@gmx.de>
wrote:
Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more
complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from
that,
you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you
have to
set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for
example.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get
rather complex as you've said.
I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes
library of
Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so
any IOS
or
device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may
enjoy
my collection at any time, so far so good.
As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party
solution as I
detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the
Skyshare Drive
and
started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at
least
have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes.
On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote:
Hi Dane,
I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you
said is
very interesting and of course true.
The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files
with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more
knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player
or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer
and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus
having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone.
So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music
with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to
accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an
app here and a hard drive there.
I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music
to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I
usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which
involves other ways of compromising. Smiles
Take care
Alexandra
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Dane Trethowan
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
Hi!
I’ve decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of
reasons,
the
main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth
says that its impossible! to play third party content such as
different audio
file
formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices.
This is - to a major extent - true if you’re using say the iPhone’s
“Music Player” App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as
every operating system with its built-in features does have its
limitations, you cannot -
as far
as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example
unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially we’re referring
to the same type
of
problem but with different operating systems.
The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter
available
from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer
over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your
choosing
but
again, there are ways around that snag.
Okay so its best not to focus on what can’t be done and focus on
what
can
be
done so let’s do that with IOS.
The first App you’ll need is a Player and there are several good
one’s out there but for the sake of simplicity let’s focus on two,
oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest.
With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account,
computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on,
when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or
view.
Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and
want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the
aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a
specific point - computer, Dropbox account etc - right to a
folder on
your iPhone where you can browse, play and manipulate your files to
your hearts content.
So this brings us to another possibly challenging topic, iPhones
have
only
so
much storage space so what if you have thousands upon thousands of
files you wish to access at any one time or supposing your music
collection is
in a
Lossless format that takes up a good deal of space?
If this is the case then its time to look at a pocket sized hard
drive
with a
built-in Wi-Fi network, I mentioned my Skyshare drive towards the
end
of last week and this drive has its own built-in Wi-Fi network which
the
iPhone
can connect to.
Once connected the Apps I mentioned earlier - oOplayer and File
Browser - have direct access to the drive thus the content you’ve
placed too the
drive.
The Skyshare drive on the surface looks like any other portable hard
drive, it
has a USB port on the back for connection to a computer with a USB
3.0
port
for the copying and manipulation of content, you can also use the
Wi-Fi abilities of the drive for copying/manipulating files though
this process
is
considerably slower when compared to USB 3.0 or even 2.
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