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Posted by lonestar1135 Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 829 days ago

Downloading all my songs now. Amazing idea. However, what happens when I add a new song to my library. It's not going to try and upload all my songs again is it?

 
 
Posted by aguilar66 Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 828 days ago

The uploader will only upload or re-sync playlists and songs that have been added or changed. It will not re-upload the same song again.

 
 
Posted by gafly Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 829 days ago

So how do we get this to work? I'm on the mobile site and it keeps asking me to download a browser plugin. Also, on the "regular" website I tried to test it via the webplayer and it won't load any songs... when I click on one to play it says loading for about a half a second and then says error.

 
 
Posted by aguilar66 Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 828 days ago

The WAP site is only for mobile phones not your PC. It's currently optimized for iPhone and Blackberry. It's behavior changes depending on the phone you access it from. The Blackberry version works as a browser plugin with the skysync WAP site. It is not a standalone app. It works in the background on your BB to sync/cache the music you play from the WAP site. As far as the web player failing could be a corporate firewall issue not sure.

 
 
Posted by rayjr13 Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 829 days ago

Just sounds like another ploy to scour a user's account for downloaded music lol. Upload your music to a cloud. Why can't anyone just produce a app that streams from your computer to a client bb app. simple streaming http/FTP app or something?

 
 
Posted by netposer Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 829 days ago

Yeah, something like slingbox for just your music library. And dump the middle man. I don't want to pay some company just to get data from my pc to my bb.

 
 
Posted by jlb21 Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 828 days ago

Technically, you can do that, if you have a TiVo. I can stream my iTunes to my TiVo, except for the few songs which are DRMed. Thus, if I were to get a Slingbox and connected it to my TiVo, I should be able to stream the music via the TiVo.

 
 
Posted by Manny Fresh 662 Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 829 days ago

I've been running skysync for a lil over a week and it's mediocre at best. I agree if you have a large library you will wait forever and also I have had more songs failed uploading than synched, some songs I get media not supported when attempting to listen even though they synched just fine. Hopefully they can fix whatever it is that's causing this.

 
 
Posted by aguilar66 Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 828 days ago

Sorry for the uploader problems. We are aware of some uploader problems when going over some wi-fi networks and are working on a fix. Please drop us a note at bugs@skysync.fm with your user account and we will work on getting you a fix for the problems you are experiencing. Thanks

 
 
Posted by rlhammon Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 829 days ago

I have well over 200 GB of legal MP3's I've ripped over the years from my CD collection. Is this large... I don't know how big most people's collection is, so hard to understand where the issues begin.

 
 
Posted by uf_gators Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 828 days ago

this damn thing , either doesn't work or takes for ever to load up a song, screw this. I will continue to just listen to my songs off my sd card or pandora...

 
 
Posted by cadzilla74 Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 828 days ago

Sadly, ever since OS 5.0 on my Storm, Orb no longer streqams live TV or videos properly. BB Media Player keeps choking on it.

However, Orb does still work streaming any music on my PC and also viewing pix still works fine.

No uploading necessary. Install Orb 2.5 on PC, create an account, from BB Browser go to mycast.orb.com and login.

I really wish they'd fix the broken bits but for music lovers or those with large picture libraries it is still a viable and relatively secure alternative.

 
 
Posted by boondocker Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 828 days ago

its aamzing!

 
 
Posted by markgruver Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 828 days ago

Not only does this thing take FOREVER to sync your songs, it doesn't even seem to work correctly. This is way too complicated for what it's supposed to do

 
 
Posted by tlo07 Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 827 days ago

I uploaded my iTunes library (only a very small percentage failed, maybe 2-3%)but when trying to stream to my berry I get "Unreliable network. Move to a different area and try again" or some such thing. Now, I can stream Pandora like a mo-fo on my "unreliable network" (aka VZW!)and I even tried going through my wifi. I'm thinking this is more of a software issue than a network issue? Cool idea though, I hope we can get the bugs worked out...