Itunes Library Streaming From DropBox

The conversion shouldn't be too hard -- any batch converter worth its salt will convert and put the new file in the same location as the old one. The playlists, though...that's a different story. You might find some help in http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts06.php. What I ended up doing, however, was creating my own batch script (I did it in Linux, but presumably you should be able to execute it from the terminal on a Mac or the Windows command line) to simple find and replace bits of text in all my actual playlist files. Here's a Stack Overflowhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/9645848/find-and-replace-a-string-in-multiple-files-using-batch-script you, *and* the command is "fart") to find/replace in multiple files. Good luck. It always seemed like this kind of thing should be easy, but it's not ever easy when iTunes is involved, in my experience.

"It always seemed like this kind of thing should be easy, but it's not ever easy when iTunes is involved" Amen. I always feel like I'm the only one who ever wants to do a given thing....even when the thing is the most obvious thing in the world (like stream my music to my iphone via dropbox)! And Doug's is great, but most of his stuff is pretty old, and won't work with recent versions of iTunes, alas. Thanks for the script stuff. Helpful!

Phil, great to have your input. Thanks. I'd guess it'd make most sense for you as well as future readers-along to answer questions here rather than via email. So..... I haven't done that so far, mostly because lossless files are big enough that streaming performance is likely to be pretty terrible Good to know. That means my plan to use 256 AAC files (which are quite large, too) might be doomed, as well. What format would you suggest, given that I'd stream in some areas with sketchy reception? (shouldn't all this be in a FAQ somewhere?). But, now that I've added an offline mode to Tunebox, it might make sense to add support for lossless audio. You could save albums while you're on WiFi and play them later. Not to be thick-headed, but what's the advantage of my using offline Tunebox as opposed to keeping music files local on the device via iTunes/Music?

Also, in the prefs, what does "enable wireless download" mean? Again, a FAQ somewhere would sure help!

So, even fairly high bitrate AAC audio should be several times smaller than ALAC or other lossless audio. Most of my audio is AAC at around 192kbps, but I'd recommend whatever bitrate you're comfortable with listening to. The idea behind "offline mode" is that if you're going to be offline, in sketchy cell service, or whatever, you can pre-download songs/albums so they'll be available. Tap the download button next to a song to grab it. There's a button at the bottom of each album to get the whole album. This is pretty similar to the functionality that iTunes Match provides, so if you have all your music in iTunes and you've paid for iTunes Match, that might be a good option. Advantages to Tunebox are that you don't need to do any syncing ahead of time, you can use any music that's in your Dropbox (might be easier to add to on the go) and you can stream or download for later playback as you prefer. The "enable wireless download" setting just changes whether or not downloading songs for offline play can happen on a wireless/cell connection (vs. WiFi). If you turn it off, Tunebox will still stream audio over a cell connection, but will wait until you're on WiFi to download tracks you've asked it to get for offline play. That's there because you can really chew through a ton of wireless data if you pull down a bunch of albums -- way more than you would streaming. There's also an "offline mode" button. Tap that and Tunebox will pretend it has no network connection, and won't use any data at all. Might be helpful if you're roaming and data is pricy. There should be a FAQ for all of this, I agree. I'll try to make that happen soon.