- #QCAST MUSIC ALTERNATIVE MAC OS#
- #QCAST MUSIC ALTERNATIVE MOVIE#
- #QCAST MUSIC ALTERNATIVE FULL#
- #QCAST MUSIC ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE#
I didn't want to do this for all my MP3s, but I had an easier solution: I wrote a small Perl script to create symlinks to my MP3 artist directories in other directories beginning with the first letter of the artist and I share that directory of directories of symlinks instead. Select the files you want to play in the interface, and save the playlist, which is stored on the server. To make it easier to find what you want to play, you can make playlists.
#QCAST MUSIC ALTERNATIVE MOVIE#
And you can't scan forward or backward in a song or movie (which is often the case with streaming software), you can only pause, play, stop, and skip to another file.
#QCAST MUSIC ALTERNATIVE FULL#
You cannot get the time remaining of a song, and the UI doesn't show the full track name - or track number - if it is too large for the available space (it has trouble even with track "1/10", though "1/9" fits). And if you leave the playing screens (which makes the music stop, so you can't manage playlists while playing music) and come back, those options get reset. To get the ID3 tags to show up, you have to hit L1 again, and select that option (along with the shuffle and repeat options). You cannot play songs from these lists, either you need to add them to the playlist, then hit L1 to switch to the playlist, and then play from there. To go up a directory, you select the "." directory, which is something that Unix geeks know, but most PS2 users would expect to use the triangle button or something. The user interface, apart from not handling long lists well, has several usability problems.
I have 293 directories in this directory, and there is no good way to skip to the bottom of the list you can go one screen at a time, but that takes a little while. I tried music first, where I had shared my iTunes directory, which has one directory per artist (except for compilations, which are in a separate directory).
#QCAST MUSIC ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE#
The software on the PowerBook updated and configured the PS2 software, and restarted it, and I was ready to go.įrom the main screen you can elect to view pictures, or play music and video. It didn't take much to set it up, same as with the initial setup: I manually entered my IP address, router address, etc. Then I remembered I had this QCast Tuner thing, and I installed it on my PowerBook G3/500, where I keep my images, my MP3s, and my EyeTV recordings. I scored a touchdown on a tight end slant on the first play, then got one more play at the end of the half (a 30-yard reception to Troy Brown), and then didn't take another snap. Then I played a game of Madden 2003 online. I got the PS2 Network Adapter installed first, popped it onto the back of the machine, and ran the setup disk to configure it. mpg, as it filters by name), it seems to hang. And if you try to open a file it can't read (I changed some. But it doesn't handle the majority of my movie file archive, which are QuickTime, and that's a shame. But it also handles DivX, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, Ogg Vorbis, and PNG, and can be updated to handle other formats. It can handle many media formats to me, the most important are MPEG-1, MP3, and JPEG. It's all written in Java, which means the UI stinks, but it seems to work well. Then a separate program launches the server, which serves up the files and playlists. There's a configuration utility to set up what you will share, and to what users/IP addresses.
#QCAST MUSIC ALTERNATIVE MAC OS#
There are two pieces to the software, the PS2 DVD and the computer software (on a separate CD), for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
QCast Tuner is software that plays audio, video, and image files from your computer to your network adapter-equipped PS2. So I looked into something I saw a few months ago on ThinkGeek: QCast Tuner for PlayStation 2. TiVo's solution is not an option for me, because I don't have a Series2, and even if I did, the TiVo solution doesn't work with DirecTV units (for now, anyway). With TiVo's release of the much anticipated Home Media Option (anticipated by me, anyway), I renewed my quest to find a way to integrate my computer's media files with my TV.
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