MP3Tunes Introduces MP3Beamer

Filed in archive Audio on February 28, 2005

MP3Tunes has released a new MP3 server called the MP3Beamer. For $399, the MP3Beamer comes with an 80GB hard drive, the Linspire OS, and several pieces of software that make using the MP3 beamer pretty simple. According to MP3Beamer's website:

MP3beamer acts as a digital music recorder (DMR). Just as a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) stores your video and allows you to play it back on TVs, a DMR stores your music collection and makes your music library instantly accessible from just about anywhere using any software or any device - including Windows, iPods/iTunes, web browsers, PDAs, and home stereos.

Once you've set it up, MP3beamer makes organizing your music simple. Not only can you save your entire CD collection on MP3beamer, the MP3beamer sends songs you've saved in your iTunes, Lsongs, or other online music libraries and sends them to your chosen device to play. Different people can access MP3beamer at the same time from different machines.

When you add music to MP3beamer, it will automatically copy it to all your computers through an action called "syncing." If the sync feature is on, then songs added to MP3beamer are auto-copied to iTunes or Lsongs and vice versa. MP3beamer can stream music to virtually any MP3 software including Windows Media, MusicMatch and Winamp.


If you're the serious tech type, you might be able to build a MP3Beamer type machine for a little less but for the non-do-it-yourself types, the MP3Beamer looks like a pretty sweet deal.


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