Easiest way to stream music from PC to iPad?

Goose · 15 Jun 2016 at 21:18

I posted this in the Apple Software forum a few days ago and got precising 0 replies so I thought i'd give it a shot here.

I bought an iPad Air 2 recently and it's my first ever iOS device so i'm still getting used to after years of using Android devices.

I have a collection of mp3's, flacs, and mkv's on my home NAS that I would like to be able to play on my iPad but i'm struggling to figure out the best way to do this. I downloaded the VLC app and it detects NAS but wont connect to it for some reason and i've also tried importing my music collection in to iTunes and turning on Home Sharing but nothing shows up in the Music app.

I've done just about everything i can to get Home Sharing to work but my iPad resolutely refuses to show anything I added in iTunes on my PC.

If anyone could help out an iOS noob i'd really appreciate it.

Thanks

silverblack · 15 Jun 2016 at 21:48

Try 8player lite

DIABLO · 15 Jun 2016 at 22:10

Another way is to upload your music to Google Music.

neil_g · 15 Jun 2016 at 22:19

Plex on the PC and then any free DNLA player on the iPad? (is plex client free on iOS? i cant remember)

Timber · 16 Jun 2016 at 00:20

If not Plex, a Subsonic server will do allow you to stream your music from you NAS. I actually use Madsonic from my Ubuntu Server for streaming from my lossless FLAC music files. Also Synology and QNAP have their own music streaming server and apps which allow similar functionality.

Not sure on the answer to the iTunes question becuase I've not used it for a while now since moving back to Android.

Goose · 16 Jun 2016 at 17:28

Downloaded the Synology music app and its surprisingly good. I kinda assumed it would be slow, ugly and generally crap, pleasantly surprised.