14 DAY TRIAL // CasaTunes, a company dealing with multi-room music solutions, has announced support for Apple’s iTunes in the Cloud beta.
The company’s solution is said to be able to automatically detect any new songs or other audio file as it is being added to the iTunes in the Cloud account.
From there, it enables those tracks to be accessed and played via CasaTunes anywhere in the home, the company said.
“With CasaTunes support for iTunes in the Cloud, our customers can add a song to their iPhone while on-the-go, or download a track from the iTunes Store while at work and these songs will be immediately available in their CasaTunes library to play when they get home, without having to manually synchronize music libraries and devices,” said David Krinker, CEO for CasaTunes.
“It’s a great new feature for our users – the time-savings and convenience is what makes the difference,” added Krinker.
Of course, this is what Apple is going to do with iCloud. Whether or not customers will instead flock for CasaTunes remains to be seen.
The only problem, however, is that iCloud and its music matching function (which costs $25 a year) will launch in fall but will only be available for use next year.
CasaTunes says it will support iTunes Match when it is released this fall.
The company has existing solutions for Apple customers, of which they mention support for controlling CasaTunes from Macs; synchronizing iTunes music from multiple PCs and Macs; playing music from one or more iPod devices attached to a CasaTunes Music Server; and for native CasaTunes apps for iDevices.
Thanks to their latest update, CasaTunes 2.9, iTunes in the Cloud support is now enabled for NuVo, Russound and Channel Vision multi-room systems, the developers said.
Version 2.9 of CasaTunes is a free upgrade for existing customers.
The updated solution will launch next month. CasaTunes Music Servers have the software included.