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How To: Stream Music From The iPhone In Ubuntu w/ Rhythmbox

fsckin.com — >>>>>>>> This is the Best Damn Guide EVER written to stream media from your iPhone to your Ubuntu PC using Rythmbox.

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  • Waterrat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Just try it.
    • willynilly, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Uh, NO. Why in hell would anyone bother to stream music FROM an iPhone?
      • jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yea, seriously - the music should already be available on your main computer - either directly on the disk within on over the network.
      • Disease, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Because you can
      • ucg1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Personally, I'd like to stream music from an iPod touch to an airport express. So that the iPod touch is kind of a music remote. There are other ways of achieving the same thing, of course, but the iPhone/iTouch + Airport Express would be an elegant option. Or just some sort of Bluetooth receiver would do the trick.

        This article is labeled incorrectly. It should have been titled "how to mount your iPhone's filesystem over SSH." You're not really "streaming" music here.
  • SeaOtter, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Also, the latest 1.1.1 firmware has just been jailbroken, so I'm sure updates to this will follow.
  • estaticd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4When I update to 1.1.1, I will update this guide. :)
  • stmiller, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Cool nice write up.
  • daradib, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Don't have an iPhone, but this does look interesting. Take a look at OpenMoko, however, as well.
  • schotty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I have a iPod Touch, will this work for sure with that? Or even the unlocking guide? I would love to get some more useful applications on the darn thing. Anything to expand beyond Apple's little cpnstrained world.....
  • estaticd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2schotty - http://www.touchdev.net/wiki/Jailbreak_Guide
    I want to say "wait" on this, but the guide should work once you have third party applications (eg ssh) installed on it.
  • jrattner1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1How do you find the iPhone and linux playing along? Can you transfer your calendar and such from iPhone to linux?
  • sirhomer, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4Please, oh please, AVOID purchasing the iPhone. Stuff like this is BAD because it assumes jailbreaking your iPhone is a normal, OK, thing to do. Tell that to all the people who had their iPhone BRICKED last time by Apple for doing this. The solution if you want a phone with any level of decent functionality and freedom is to AVOID the iPhone.
    • cypherz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Oh good grief. What kind of hardware hacking sentiment is that? Who cares if someone bricks their [insert device being hacked here]? It's part of the hacker nature to do risky things with devices. Hey! It's fun! You should buy an iPhone or iPod Touch and try it!
  • inv1ctus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15ubuntu and iphone in the same title? Have you no shame?
  • Tyr7BE, on 10/13/2007, -2/+14Yes, but why would you want to? The iPhone is a portable player, and Rhythmbox is a fixed player. If anything, you should be able to stream from Rhythmbox to the iPhone.
  • tanveer, on 10/13/2007, -1/+6I want to able to do the opposite: To be able to stream all my iTunes library (songs/video) to iPhone over wireless network/WiFi in my home and be able to browse album cover, by artist, album etc...just like you'd if it were to be inside your iPhone. Can't someone make a either a 3rd native app or even ajax app that can do that? A simple thin client for all my music repository sitting in my computer and make the 8GB storage in my iPhone irrelevant!

    Imagine, taking all your music w/ you all the time where ever there is WiFi! Now that's an app I'm willing to pay for (i.e soon to come iTunes apps for iPhone store, I'm looking at you)
    • nullfame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Tanveer, I have just the thing for you. A completely free, open source solution that does exactly what you want:
      http://digg.com/apple/How_to_stream_from_your_home ...
      Right now, it only sorts by artist, then album, then song, but updates will come soon and you'll be able to browse by any of those 3 fields or search. (Though showing covers would be quite a bit of work--but possible, in the future.) But I think you'll like it as it is, at least for a start. Sadly, only 19 diggs so far. Tell your friends! ;-)
  • SourceClosed, on 10/13/2007, -9/+1This is a simple two step process with Windows Media Player. Takes less than a minute.

    With Linux you have seven lengthy steps that require plenty of command line interaction. And they say Linux is ready as a serious alternative to Windows Vista Ultimate on the desktop? Get real please.
    • tgoose, on 10/13/2007, -0/+3And if Apple opened the source to the iPhone, then it would be two steps on any operating system.

      Is the fact that proprietary software makes it harder to use open source software really a good reason to use proprietary software? You're only shooting yourself in the foot a decade down the line when you've paid for god knows how many upgrades to your closed source software and Microsoft or Apple (or any other company) decides not to support yesteryear's file formats and hardware.
    • EbilPhish, on 10/13/2007, -0/+2I attach this to his posts "Do not encourage the Troll, checking his profile shows "William Gates" and a whole load of MS/antiLinux propaganda

      Unless he really is Gates I don't know why anyone would bother unless its some kind of paid astroturfing or just boredom."
  • estaticd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1@jrattner1 Oh - Getting an iPhone and Linux to play along is not a cakewalk by any sense - getting this far actually took several days of hack and slashing. I haven't tried syncing calendar, contacts, etc. The only thing I know doesn't work right now is album art, and that is being worked on.
  • kretik, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Buried for blogspam and lame "look at me!!" ASCII art.
  • iheartjebus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1How does a story involving the iPhone and Ubuntu only have 152 diggs??? Not enough Ron Paul in there?
  • mahela, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Cool nice write up.
  • tgoose, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Dugg for Linux or buried for iPhone? Tough choice.
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