Didiom just let me know about a free new application they have released for BlackBerry. It lets you placeshift your music. Or in layman terms stream your music from your PC to your BlackBerry. They also incorporated a music store into the software letting you buy DRM free music but that seems to be a secondary feature. They even have a funky algorithm where you can bid for the price you are willing to pay for music and it will accept or reject your bid. Kind of like Priceline for music. It seems to be available for the 8300 & 8800 series now but they are showing pictures on their site of it running on a Bold.
Check it out at www.didiom.com and let us know what you think in the comments!
Features include:
- Placeshifting technology – Didiom lets you stream your entire digital music library – including your iTunes library and WMA tracks (excluding DRM music) – from your home computer to your mobile phone, wherever you are. No more tedious synching or out of memory errors, no searching for a WiFi network. Access your entire music collection, wherever you go.
- Free to download – The Didiom application is available for over 200 different handsets (including Blackberry and Windows Mobile phones), is cross-carrier, and – starting today – is FREE to download from www.didiom.com.
- Huge music catalog – there are over 1.5 million DRM-free tracks available to buy in the Didiom Marketplace, including the catalog of CD Baby, the world’s largest online retailer of independent music. Music can be purchased solely for your phone, your PC, or both. Our fixed prices start from 89ยข for a single track, $9.99 for an album. But you can also…
- Name your own price – our “adaptive bargaining” technology lets you bid for music at the price you want to pay. A constantly changing, behind-the-scenes algorithm dynamically accepts or rejects the bid, and immediately lets you know if you secured your music track.
- Try before you buy – Free 30 second samples of all tracks are can be streamed wirelessly. What’s more, you can share your favorites with friends (via email), and with other mobile Didiom users (mobile-to-mobile).
- DRM-Free – did we say that before? All tracks available via the Didiom marketplace are DRM-free.
- Innovative and easy-to-use – both Didiom’s handheld application and web site have won awards from organizations such as The One Show and the Horizon Interactive Awards
coffman42 ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 3
Posted: October 17, 2008 at 2:10 AM EST
The program looks clean and promising. Pulls up my music on my computer and try to play it. To no avail it does not work.
hopefully some updates will make it work in no time.
Nikolaus Not Registered
Posted: October 17, 2008 at 11:02 AM EST
Linux desktop version please?
Nikolaus Not Registered
Posted: October 17, 2008 at 1:48 PM EST
Website seem to be down, or very slow. Is there an OTA install link? I could only find the .alx and .cod files to download and if I use BB Desktop Manager to install these to my BB then Desktop Manager has the nasty habit to downgrade/uninstall several of my apps against my wishes.
Scott Not Registered
Posted: October 17, 2008 at 2:33 PM EST
Does this only work for US phones..
I tried to install on my telus 8330 with no luck..
Stephen Not Registered
Posted: October 17, 2008 at 2:37 PM EST
I downloaded this on my Alltel 8330, but I can’t seem to get it to work. Everytime I try to search for my music it says it can’t find any.
malsadig ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 7
Posted: October 17, 2008 at 3:41 PM EST
I got the same msg on my 8830, so i went ahead and disabled the fire wall and i was able to pull my music just fine, i hope that helps.
Stephen Not Registered
Posted: October 17, 2008 at 6:12 PM EST
well, my fire wall on my berry was already disabled, and I think i was able to disable the on eon my computer, but still no luck. thanks anyway!
Raphael Not Registered
Posted: October 17, 2008 at 6:31 PM EST
I tried this on my laptop with vista to no avail (Even after disabling firewall). Tried it on my old desktop with XP and its working. Anyone else have the same results?
Sarah Not Registered
Posted: October 18, 2008 at 12:42 PM EST
I got it to work right away, 8320 T-Mobile, 4.5, XP. But the sound quality is VERY low, I think I’ll just stick with my sd card for now.
joetheplumber ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 2
Posted: October 19, 2008 at 12:36 PM EST
it works great on my 8300/at&t. no complains about the sounds quality. i changed the bitrate from 32 to 64kbps on the app.
t-mobile isn’t even 3g. is it?
Johnson Not Registered
Posted: October 19, 2008 at 3:47 PM EST
UPDATE TO EVERYONE.
Their customer service just contacted me saying that their previous version of the desktop application did have some difficulties with Vista, and the new version is available for download which has the problem fixed. I downloaded and reinstall the new package and everything goes well now.
Btw, the sound quality is not bad afterall, all you need to do is set the bitrate in the MORE->OPTIONS.
Stephen Not Registered
Posted: October 19, 2008 at 3:51 PM EST
Johnson,
thanks, can’t wait to try it out when I get back home. Hopefully it will work, program sounds awsome!
Curtis Not Registered
Posted: October 22, 2008 at 8:00 PM EST
not working for me… port forwarding setup on router, no Windows firewall. I can see my files and playlists but when I try to play something I notice ffmpeg.exe goes to 100% cpu then dies off and doesnt play. Any ideas?
Chris Not Registered
Posted: October 26, 2008 at 3:46 AM EST
Well, it seems you are having some trouble with your OS. Ffmpeg.exe is a standard media format converter.
Curtis Not Registered
Posted: October 26, 2008 at 10:50 AM EST
I doubt there is a problem with my OS. I have had no problems with any other streaming software. Didiom installs ffmpeg.exe as part of the desktop install.
Chris Not Registered
Posted: October 28, 2008 at 3:33 PM EST
100% cpu usage for ffmpeg.exe is a good thing and something to be expected. The reason it stops working could be codec pack, corrupted media files, cpu overheating, or many others. Maybe the other streaming softwares work well because they don’t use ffmpeg. If you cannot figure out the problem, it might be a good idea to contact their customer service.
Brent Not Registered
Posted: October 30, 2008 at 11:03 PM EST
I have not had any success with this on my AT&T 8300 running OS 4.5…my laptop is running Vista…and whenever I try to “stream music from my PC”, it just keeps saying “Your search did not match any music”…the firewall is disabled on my ‘berry…but nothing seems to be working…
Suggestions, anyone?
paul Not Registered
Posted: November 6, 2008 at 10:31 PM EST
Hi Brent,
If your Windows is 64bit, you need to uninstall, re-download and re-install their PC application again. I had the similar problem and contacted Didiom. They told me they have just fixed a problem with 64bit OS.
lou Not Registered
Posted: November 8, 2008 at 8:25 PM EST
i downloaded yesterday ..nov 7…my windows is 64 bit vista…i get the same message of cant find music….have the correct folders of all music on the list and the most recent version of itunes….its my blackberry…any help?
lou Not Registered
Posted: November 8, 2008 at 8:41 PM EST
just reloaded it all …save message
lou Not Registered
Posted: November 8, 2008 at 8:42 PM EST
same message….sorry
joetheplumber ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 2
Posted: November 9, 2008 at 9:35 AM EST
Lou, can you browse their music store and preview songs? If not, maybe you just need to change your APN settings.
http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com/f24/tcp_apn_wap_gateway_and_port_carrier_settings-360/
lou Not Registered
Posted: November 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM EST
tks…how do i figure out how to change the settings…thats not my expertise or close to it! i have verizon but thats all i know….any thoughts? tks
Chris Not Registered
Posted: November 9, 2008 at 2:12 PM EST
Lou,
Are your music files protected by itune drm? If so it cannot be accessed by Didiom appllication as well as the other third party software.
andrea Not Registered
Posted: December 9, 2008 at 11:54 AM EST
it says service unavailable? i have a 8320 tmobile. and idk how to tell if its a 64bit? and mine computer is xp.