DOT.iPhone for Mac2.0

Simple Media is free and it works, but this has more features and is simply the best!

Very cool, but for 20$ it is more of a hassle with the long load times when your service is not full. Overall great, but not worth the waits, get a 16 gig iphone.

After update, it still reads v1.0.0.

Have it, love it, no complaints. Does exactly what it says, plus the interface rocks! Great work DOT.TUNES! BTW, customer support is very responsive.

I've been using the iPhone plug-in for a few days, and my experience has been exceptional. I have an Airport wireless network in my house, and I've been able to watch movies, videos and stream music without having to wait or any delays. Outside of an initial load delay (which was seconds at the most), I have been able to listen to music, which uploaded and streamed completely end-to-end without interruption. I have watched videos and movies (again over wifi) from 4:30 minutes through 20 minutes (got bored), but again without any choppiness or loading issues whatsoever. Going from playlist to playlist, or from song to song, and back-and-forth between pages also has not resulted in any significant delays in either the loading of pages or the loading of the content behind those pages (although I suspect that a feature which allows you to turn off artwork would definitely increase the speed that pages load regardless). Over the edge network, things are definitely different. Depending upon where you are on the network, you may get inconsistent results. In some places, I've been able to stream music and my songs loaded fairly quickly, but in others, it took a while. That said, this application is best when over wifi, but passable (location dependent of course), over Edge. All in all, I think that the iPhone plug-in is well worth the price of admission. Moreover, the DOT.TUNES application itself is a great deal especially since even without the iPhone plug-in, you can get at your music from wherever you are. If the developer is reading any of these comments, I would suggest a feature which allows you to stream one song after another, and the ability to turn off artwork. Get those down, and I'd buy it again!

First and foremost, it is SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! Even when accessing the local LAN network via Airport Ex n, the time to actually get to listen to a single song can take a couple of minutes. Then it takes time to actually cache the song; otherwise, it will pause the song in play until it can get ahead on the download; often the song will time out and you have to start over again. If you take the external route (WAN), it takes upwards of 2-4 minutes to go to each level (Playlists, Artists, etc.) and play a song. The interface is clean and straightforward, much like the iPod's UI. But there are a few bugs like the activation area for playing a song is minute to the actual area shown for the song (album cover, song title, song length area), calling songs "movies" when selecting to play (because QuickTime is the plugin that plays the song). "Buttons" for Add to Favorites/Delete from Favorites are distorted and indistinguishable. There is no playing of playlists meaning once you select a song in a playlist, Dot.iPhone only plays that song, not continuing to play other tunes in the list. There are no settings available w/in Dot.iPhone such as an option to turn off artwork (which would greatly speed up listings & selections), no equalizer option, no Shuffle, or Ratings. Still, at the end of the day, it does deliver your iTunes library to your iPhone w/out having to fill up the memory. It's just that at this stage Dot.iPhone is only a good start...it has a good ways to go before it becomes the blockbuster app that every iPhone user will want.

I really do "heart" my iPhone now that I have Dot Tunes on it!!!

WOW!!! The coolest thing ever! Makes the purchase of the iPhone incredibly worth it!!

Gosh! I never heard of this service before, and I think I love it before I even tried it! This sounds like something I could really sink my teeth into! Thanks for the contest and thanks for the program, too!

how well does this perform over EDGE?

Does anyone know if buying the promo would also qualify you to receive the offer on Dot.Tunes website where you'd then receive the Dot.Artwork plugin for free?

As someone who does music for a living, this is the most invaluable tool for accessing literally everything you've ever worked on. It's great for showing clients what you've been up to in pretty much any circumstance!!

I didn't realize that you could play internet audio from safari on the iPhone - I assume that's how this works... that's pretty huge

I tried out the demo, and it did seem pretty slick. I've got the new version of dot.tunes, but this seems to be the killer app for the iPhone...

SOLD! will buy!

Looks sweet! Looking forward to trying this one out for sure.

While opening the demo on my iPhone random thoughts of an unknown but not-so-scarry-radically-different future online experience flew by. This app is one step closer.

How is this better than MyTunesRSS? I am a registered user of that, and it is great. Not knocking this app, just asking questions... This sounds good too, just curious how it stacks up?

This is a fantastic concept and I look forward to having my entire library available from my iPhone without the hassle of picking and choosing a limited number of songs and movies to live on the phone.

This app appears to be one of the very best in its class (iTunes servers). I've tried a few others that were hard to install or too expensive. The main server is free, the fancy iPhone (or Wii!!!) interface is nice but not needed for Desktop/laptop use.

wonder if this will stream videos?

Sweet, this will be so cool on my iPhone

That is one long-ass finger in that photo!!

OMG, I thought the iPhone experience couldn't get any better! This little app rocks and the price can't be beat. AWESOME!

Someone suggested this would work with my Treo, but the demo url just gives me an "Unknown error."

I use Dot.Tunes whenever I'm on a business trip. I can enjoy my entire media collection of movies and music without having to bring my desktop with me! I tried the demo of this plugin on a friend's iphone and I'm totally sold. Now I just have to get the iphone...

If this really works as well as the demo it will truly be a killer app. It just goes to show what the iphone is capable of; imagine if apple actually supported this sort of development.

My iPhone is only about 2 weeks old, but the most frustrating part has been the 8gb limit, this is awesome!

I don't own an iPhone yet, but this plug-in , if I were to win it, would convince me to buy one.

This is actually a very cool application. I've used DOT.TUNES in teh past, but in teh end found that I wasn't using it. If I could easily browse my library from my phone though, I could be convinced to give it another go.

I'll definitely have to try this one. Sonds to cool... .

I'm massively impressed by this software. At first, I thought it would just stream your music over Wifi. That's cool, but it does so much more. You can actually stream both your music AND videos. And not just over your local Wifi network, but over the EDGE network (which is what you use to get the internet on your iPhone). Music streams great using the EDGE network. Video is a little choppy. Also, the developers made DOT.TUNES free. It used to cost $30, but since it's required to connect the streaming of your iTunes library, they made it free. Killer cool! Lastly, you can actually send other people the link to your music and THEY can listen to your iTunes library collections if you want.

I'm listening to the demo server, and it's just as abysmal as you'd expect over EDGE (the music keeps stopping), but over my wifi, it's fine. So you can't stream your music from just anywhere, but if you found yourself at a wifi hotspot sans laptop, this would be useful.

Never heard of this program before - nice! I wish though that the offer had been for our choice of plug-ins up to a $20 value. I'm not planning to purchase an iPhone any time in the foreseeable future. But I'm definitely going to give it a try!

Man, I wished I had an iPhone, this sounds like a great app.

This is a great idea, if it works as advertised. It also would allow users to save $100 by buying the 4G iPhone becasue storage capacity would be less of a problem.

You can already do this for free (streaming music and videos) with the Telekinesis iPhone remote app.

chilp82, don't be upset. DOT.TUNES isn't just for iPhone users. The application is for anyone who uses iTunes to store and access their music, movies, videos, podcasts, etc. Even if you don't have an iPhone, you can use it. I had the Treo 650 and 680 before and I was rocking DOT.TUNES on my Treos. And their website has plug-ins for different devices, like the Wii and the PSP. So don't be discuoraged, just download the app and see what its all about for yourself.

I will definitely have to check this out.

i dont have iphone but i can see they have a plugin for Wii too, ill give a try.

I hope this offer appears again when the iPhone debuts in Europe... I cannot try it at the moment

Yes, indeed, us Treo folks are not going to go tuneless....

This sounds awesome, I feel like I must have it!!

Excellent idea !!! This is really cool stuff... Now I'm definitely getting an iPhone...

It's absolutely the perfect tool for what I need to do on the iPhone and my music. very good idea!

Even though I don't have an iPhone, this has introduced me to DOT.TUNES which I CAN use on my Treo (until I GET my iPhone!). This is an AWESOME idea!!!!

This is what VIRTUAL really means in Mobile Communications. It proves up what the iPhone is really all about. The ability to have what you want to see, do and have right there with you anywhere... Virtually. It is truly the Mobile Internet at work. What with 8 gb on my iPhone (and less after I put other things on it) there's not enough room for all my music and movies... until now! Enter DOT.iPhone

Hmmm, I might buy this if MU does not give it to me. ;-)

Heh. Connected to the DOT.iPhone service demo and watched the DOT.iPhone service demo on the iPhone.. on the iPhone. =p This is wicked, an excellent (and successful) attempt to overcome the iPhone's limitations. Very cool.

This is not something that really interests me as I'm in Australia and can't even get an iPhone. Having iPhone specific software really excludes us.

WAAA... I'm from Germany, there are no iPhones...

This would be great a tool. Too bad I don't have an iPhone. I'll recommend it to my brother.

Great price and worth a try.

I'm trying this one out for my iPhone right now.

This one is absolutely great. The iPhone has a few limitations and this certainly helps address one of them.

It's absolutely perfect for what I need to do on the iPhone.

I'm giving this a try for sure. Love my iPhone!!

I'm getting this for my iPhone friend!

I got a sneak preview of this a while back. I can honestly say that I fell in love with my iPhone all over again. Its sooooooo nice to have ALL my songs on my iPhone. Even at full price ($20) its well worth it. Added bonus, DOT.TUNES tech support rocks.

This is definately worth the $10

I got the iPhone plug-in before this promo started, so I'm talking from experience...this application is wicked! Once I got the plug-in from the Plug-in Manager within DOT.TUNES, I was rocking my whole iTunes library from my iPhone. I was watching MOVIES from my iPhone. i was playing my music, listening to podcasts, right in the palm of my hand. Its great over wifi, and not too shabby over Edge. Depending upon how large the file being served actually is, the load times may be slightly longer (and its a wash if you're trying to watch a movie or video over Edge), but overall, its great. If you DO have an iPhone, this is the singular application to have because it totally lets you get at your stash with no problems. It simply works.

If this works as advertised, it will make my life so much better ;) I find that I am still toting around my 80GB iPod alongside my iPhone because it's too much trouble to sot through my library in order to decide which playlists I want on my iPhone. Looking forward to trying this one.

Kinda makes me wish I had an iPhone. :-)