I was ready for this to be a home run. Simplify Media loads on your computer and on your iPhone/iPod Touch. On the computer, the application serves up media files stored on that computer, such as your iTunes library. On the iPhone/iPod, the client application surfs your music collection and streams music from your computer to the device. Cool! You can apparently share your music with multiple friends too, but I didn't try that. I misread the FAQ. At first, I thought I could stream music purchased on iTunes to my iPhone. I looked more closely when I couldn't seem to find that new Third Day album on my iPhone since I forgot to sync before I left the office. It wasn't there. I re-read the FAQ again and thought I should be able to. Then, it hit me. Simplify will stream iTunes songs to other "computers" logged in to the host computer (so long as the client computer is authorized by iTunes to play that song), but it won't stream DRM-protected tunes to your iPhone. Bummer!
Simplify Media is still a great download if you unprotect all your music, but I wanted so much for it to work with my iTunes music. I'm a really lazy syncer.
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