http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/ Engadget Comments for QNAP's QMobile app enables multimedia NAS streaming to Android and iOS http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Does anyone have this? This looks promising]]>Aug 8th 2010 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
Dont see the point in this though. Saving data in a remote location and accessing it is not practical for a regular use basis. Is it?]]>Aug 8th 2010 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
>implying the internet is not useful]]>Aug 8th 2010 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/''im waiting to be imphresed'' aka connery]]>Aug 8th 2010 3:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
This ought to be the ugliest image of any article on this site.]]>Aug 8th 2010 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
I am starting to like QNAP products a lot!]]>Aug 8th 2010 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/And pay for it ?
YAY ! What a great strategy !

Or have a NaS or a PC already and just use it to do this.
It's not like it's new.
FreeNas offers this, win7 offers this...]]>Aug 8th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
What is subsonic? And why would you need it with dropbox?]]>Aug 8th 2010 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/NetPortal & FileBrowser from Stratospherix (http://www.stratospherix.com) allow you to connect to Macs, Windows PCs, Linux and many different types of NAS from your iPhone or iPad over WiFi, 3G and GPRS. You can view photos or stream audio/video if you've got a fast enough connection and also view docs and other kinds of file.]]>Aug 8th 2010 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
Just use ES File Manager, free, easy - If you want an app on Android.]]>Aug 8th 2010 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/"YOU CAN PLAY TB'S OF DATA"
and
"YOU CAN PAY A FEW THOUSAND TO AT&T"]]>Aug 8th 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
me2, I have done this on my synology for some time, but you have to admit an app can make it easier if you have the need]]>Aug 8th 2010 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/That would be amazing. ]]>Aug 8th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
Well there goes all the porn.]]>Aug 8th 2010 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/I'm 12, what's porn?

Aah crap my picture 0.o and the worst part is I can't change the picture xD. It's like being a real offender and I'm obligated to tell people.

I must use the force to cleanse my name.]]>Aug 8th 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 1:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
Before you do this you should back up (seems reasonable).

So I plug in my eSATA drive which has my previous QNAP data backups on it.

And when I click backup it says the volume can't be backed up to, it isn't ready. It says go to device management. I click that and it crashes the administrator program and makes me log in again. It does this every time.

So are there even backups on there at all? What good are they if I can't access them? Good thing I didn't need those backups.

This is the problem with QNAP. When you have a NAS, you are putting all your eggs in that basket, all my personal data, etc. And you need to be able to trust that basket. And I just can't, not when it screws up like this all the time.]]>Aug 8th 2010 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 1:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 3:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
Huh? That's the first I've heard of those issues. I'm an all Apple household, and as far as AFP being broken - well, it works for me. And the opportunities I've had to use SMB (friends, etc.), it's worked well enough.

As a comparison, my ReadyNAS was unstable, I was told to replace drives every time it would lock up, and one month out of warranty it died completely. It was a $700 brick, and I'll never buy ReadyNAS again. My QNAP (TS-509) is rock solid going on 14 months. I'd buy it again in a heartbeat.]]>Aug 8th 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
They added a feature to auto-delete these lock files that would appear on volumes and keep AFP from working.

- [AFP] Fixed AFP connection issue when AppleDB is broken (recover DB automatically)

And this is my main problem with QNAP. They don't really own their own software, they just mostly pile on other people's (and open source) software. So if it doesn't work, they just shrug, as they did with multiple releases with Twonky working worse and worse.

As to the permissions on SMB, try making a folder which some groups (but not everyone) can read and other groups can read and write. This is permissible under SMB, but I can't get it to work. Heck, the permissions work so poorly I ended up just making different volumes for different groups.

And somehow you missed that under the 3.2.X releases the "on disk" file sizes were messed up? Every file appears to be at least 528K in size on my machine (your figure was probably different), you had to copy it off to find the real size.

It just doesn't feel like a cohesive product.]]>Aug 8th 2010 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Have you used it? It really sucks. I only tried the free ver. and it randomly picks 3 files you can play (kidda stupid), but I can get them to stream and the quallity is so bad is not even worth it. All pixilated and choppy.
On my iPhone I used to have AirVideo. Now that is a GOOD streaming app!]]>Aug 8th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 6:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
No MKV, xvid, DVD ISO? They blew it. AirVideo at least transcodes on the fly (and at $1.98 is a great deal)]]>Aug 8th 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
- D]]>Aug 8th 2010 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
I've streamed 1080p mkv over 3G via AirVideo. Of course it transcodes down to iPhone resolution so the full file size isn't sent over the air.]]>Aug 8th 2010 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
A lot of articles on Engadget don't pertain specifically to my needs, but they're there to read and see what's new in gadget news.

Just because you use something else to do the same task doesn't instantly mean you have to hate on everything else.

As for the app itself, I'll have to give it a go and test it out. Having something that directly links into the NAS would be handy, if I recall Apple's Remote software only works if you're on the same wifi network as the iTunes you're accessing.

As for Dropbox, it's storage capacities are way to small for my needs, my audio and video collections are between 150-750GB, not easily uploaded to Dropbox :).

As for the QNAP itself, of course you can use FreeNAS, I did for 6 years before getting a Qnap. The problems with FreeNAS is that it's meant to be run on an old computer you have lieing around that may or may not be bulky and noisy. The qnap is tiny and is the best use of space to still have access to 6 drives at once (for me anyways).

To each their own and all that.

In other news, that stuff you like? It sucks :\

- D]]>Aug 8th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/
Now, get this working on Sprint's 4g WiMax that's uncapped and we'll talk.]]>Aug 8th 2010 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/]]>Aug 8th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/qnaps-qmobile-app-enables-multimedia-nas-streaming-to-android-a/Aug 8th 2010 9:19PM