Comments on: Orb MyCasting: iTunes + Wii = Hotness

By: 吴迈

吴迈 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:15:18 +0000

I originally saw a “game” that was supposed to allow me to turn my Wii and T.V. into a media center. Upon trying to search online for that “game” I came across Orb and tried it out. I originally loved the program but realized that it was not working for all files. As an iTunes user, I noticed that any content I had purchased or ripped would not play on the Wii. I set out to fix the problem and here is what I came up with:

1. In iTunes, change change your import settings to MP3 (default is AAC encoding). Click Edit, click Preferences, Click General and click the Import Settings button. Change to “Import Using: MP3 Encoder”.

2. In iTunes, Right-Click the horizontal bar right above the song list and Click “Kind”. This displays what kind of file each song is, along with “Artist” and “Title”.

3. In iTunes, search for “AAC audio”. Select all those files and Right-Click one. Click “Convert Selection to MP3″. Allow your iTunes to convert these songs (it takes time!)

4. Once iTunes has converted you can delete the “AAC audio” list and send the files to the Recycling Bin. I first made a back up of my purchased content in another folder. What iTunes has done is convert your AAC encoded songs into MP3s, placed them in their source folder, and added them to iTunes. There is no need to organize the files into folders or add them to iTunes!

5. Once everything is no longer encoded in AAC, it should work on the Wii!

By: asksource

asksource — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:22:01 +0000

I've been using the new Avvenu iTunes service for the past couple of weeks. It's really integrated into iTunes and much less complicated than Orb. It doesn't get around the Apple "Fairplay" DRM, but most of my songs I've ripped from CDs, and the rest I just burned to CD then ripped it back onto iTunes in MP3 format, so it doesn't really matter.

By: ian at orb

ian at orb — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:06:22 +0000

????

um, yes, very, and no, not at all, in that order.

what i guess i didn’t make clear enough is that you aren’t uploading stuff to some Orb server: your PC is doing the streaming.

your stuff stays where it belongs: on your PC. but you can PLAY it wherever you have a Web browser.

and actually, music bought through the iTunes Music Store is pretty much the one type of content that you CAN’T mycast to yourself or your friends, anyway, since “FairPlay” DRM doesn’t have a licensing program. let’s hear it for the Apple Walled Garden!

By: BIGGOS

BIGGOS — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:19:46 +0000

So is this secure? Is Orb getting access to everyone’s Itunes account?

By: ian at orb

ian at orb — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:10:51 +0000

right!

(tho’ i guess it’s unsurprising that i should agree with you here ;)

and that also means that if i can invite you and a couple friends into my living room to listen to my tunes through my TV’s killer soundsystem, i should be able to do so in cyberspace as well (nod to the retro with that “cyberspace” there)

for example: we just today launched an updated version of that Wii interface (and a PS3 version too!) and lots new sharing features so i’m blaring my traditional launch tune around the office. and now i can blare it from my PC to a few of YOU at a time as well:

http://myspace.orb.com/orb/html/permalink.html?l=mycastmusiclive&playlistId=OYIIxQ8D

and now i’m going to put it on my myspace

there’s already an outstanding solution out there for BROADCASTING my home PC’s music to a few thousand folks at a time: SHOUTcast, with the broadcast capability juiced by AOL servers

but that’s broadcast. Orb is personal radio. Orb sharing is my own PC mycasting my home tunes to the handful of friends that can jam into my cyber living room at a time.