Upload tens of thousands of tracks to Psonar with ease

31/08/2010

I thought it was worth quickly blogging about how easy it is to upload tens of thousands of the tracks you own to Psonar so that you can listen to them for free at any time, anywhere on any internet-connected device.

The Psonar SongShifter

The Psonar SongShifter

Unlike web browser-based uploaders, where you need to manually select each track or folder to upload and additionally leave the browser open for the entire time uploading is in progress, with Psonar, this process is taken care of with the SongShifter, the downloadable app which we’ve created to both upload and download tracks from your PC, MP3 player, phone or other storage device.

Using the Psonar SongShifter is as simple as this:

  1. Download & install it
  2. Step through the simple wizard to tell it where your music is located
  3. Forget about it!

The SongShifter runs whenever you log in, scans the configured folders and uploads any new music it finds without any intervention from you. You really can just set it and forget it.

Additionally, every time you plug in an external storage device, the SongShifter will also scan it for your music. So you can seamlessly upload and download directly from your iPhone, MP3 player, memory card or other USB device… and configuring these devices is even easier!

We’ve also developed an alpha version of the SongShifter for both Mac and Linux users. If you’d like to get your hands on it, please email support@psonar.com.

Lastly, if you haven’t already signed up for Psonar, you can do so here and if you need any convincing, here’s a video to explain why you should right now.

Happy listening!

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Posted by Richard Urwin

Easy Sailing Using Psonar

09/11/2009

Who saw that recent documentary about Mike Perham, the 15-year-old who sailed round the world on his own?

Poor bloke got dumped by his girlfriend halfway round and by Panama he looked really bored and was probably missing his Xbox and Hollyoaks an awful lot. What a monumental achievement though.

Anyway, this got us thinking about situations when psonar.com would be really useful and travelling in general and sailing both seem like scenarios when the service could really come into its own.

For example, if you use a netbook when on the move (say you own a nice yacht or cruiser and like disappearing for long weekends up the coast) but you store your music library on an external drive or full-size PC, then using Psonar would enable you to sail off into the sunset, free of anything bar your netbook, and still access your entire music library whenever you have an internet connection.

Many modern marinas also now have wi-fi (there’s always a dongle or mobile option if not) and, once connected, you could stream all your music without using the extra space and power required for a larger computer or external device.

Think how useful that would be if you’re off on a long voyage, like a round-the-world trip.

The same goes for any laptop or PC, but everyone and their dog seems to have a netbook these days and the one thing they lack is a hard-drive to store vast amounts of data, like a music collection. Using psonar.com as a mobile music hard-drive solves this problem instantly.

Backpackers and travellers could also find the service incredibly useful. Not only would you be backing up your iPod (or similar device) into the Psonar Cloud thus insuring against the theft of your music collection whilst hanging out in the less desirable parts of whatever far-flung destination you find yourself in, but you could also access all your tunes from any internet connection in the world simply by logging in and hitting play on psonar.com.

Just think how many hostel parties that could get started. Our livers shudder to think.

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Posted by benherveymurray

Iceland’s in the Stream!

27/10/2009

I was lucky enough to be in Iceland for the recent Airwaves music festival. It rocked.

But whilst I was there I was away from my beloved laptop and iPod for a lot of the time. So no portable music library for me, or that would’ve been the case had psonar.com not launched their streaming service a few days ago.

You can now listen to your own music collection from anywhere in the world, regardless of the location of your own music playing devices and we think that’s pretty neat, even if we did make it happen ourselves. Well, I say we, but it was entirely the work of our very clever technical team of Rich, Tim and Ben.

Just how useful this was bought home on two occasions last week. The first came when I was enjoying a few drinks at a party on my first night in Reykjavik. The music being played was dreadful so I took custody of the laptop, logged onto my psonar.com account and started streaming some of my own music collection straight away.

Some might argue that this offered scant improvement on the quality of music but at least there was now a choice of several thousand tracks, rather than whatever can be dug up (and is licensed for listening in Iceland) on Youtube, Last FM, Myspace etc. My friends had a good laugh at my extensive classic rock collection and eventually settled on some FM Belfast, an enthralling Icelandic band who were performing at that weekend’s festival.

The second occasion was when we received an email from a lady who’d read about psonar.com and wanted to know if we could help back-up and retrieve her iPod music library. Her laptop had been stolen by some NEDs and she was left with just a device full of music that she didn’t want to lose (it wouldn’t download the collection onto a new laptop due to rights issues).

Thankfully, we could help: she installed the SongShifter app – downloaded from psonar.com – and it indentified the music on her iPod and then uploaded the whole lot to our cloud servers. She can now do what she likes with her music, including populating her new laptop with her own rescued music library.

So there you go, we’re there; you can have your music, your way, anytime. It works in any country in the world, even when you’re only a glacier or two away from the Arctic Circle, and it thwarts thieving hoodies.

Beat that Spotify.

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Posted by benherveymurray

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