Is there any app that exists that would allow me to stream music (or video) from a laptop or NAS to my phone? I know that droids definitely have the capability, so I was wondering if there is a WP equivalent. If one doesn't exist, does anyone know if there is one in development?
You can try Qloud Media. It can stream video, music and pictures to your Windows Phone from your PC . It need install proper server software on your PC.
Also looking for the same thing, my NAS has a static IP adress on my network and has its own power supply, I am looking to stream music and video over my wireless network to my Lumia 710.
I'm really interested in this too, honestly here I have never seen an iOS app that did it without jailbreaking and going down the XBMC route, which allowed me to stream from a USB NAS drive hooked up via my Airport Extreme Router directly to my iPhone / iPad without a PC acting as a server.
Since updating to a newer iPad I switched to Airvideo, which sadly meant I needed the PC left on to act as a server, but at least it wasn't as clunky as WMC... I still shudder to remember the pain caused by trying to sync my 360 as an Extender... :mad:
If there's an XBMC style app for WP7.5 I will be incredibly happy, if not then Airvideo style would also be ace... If I have to actually convert and load the videos over though... I think I'll stick to the iPad
As others have mentioned, I use HTC's Connected Media to stream from my NAS to my phone (HTC Mozart WP7.5).
Whilst it does a fairly good job of connecting to my Netgear ReadyNAS and playing media the app could do with some improving to make it easier to find the media you are after on the NAS, such as using the same alphabetic quick jump you get when finding a contact etc as I have loads of media and have to scroll down through loads of artists or folders each time to find what I am after.
The app also has a nice feature which allows you to push media from your phone to other DLNA devices such as Smart TV's and PC's. Very cool for showing off your pictures on the widescreen TV!
I haven't seen any other apps for WP offering this sort of functionality so if anyone knows of any then I would be interested to hear more. :)
Last edited by MangoTastic; 06-13-2012 at 02:19 PM.