Lobster Tunes MP3 Music Grabber

If you are weary of lugging around an MP3 player and transferring tunes from your desktop to a storage card or to your device, let Lobster Tunes come to the rescue. Lobster Tunes offers all the features of an MP3 player such as shuffle and replay. It also offers Quickmix that prepares a random playlist. Or, you can construct your own playlist on the fly.

The crowning glory of Lobster is that it grabs music right off your desktop PC (or wherever your music files are stored) over an Internet connection whether Wi-Fi or 3G for play on a Windows Mobile device. With Lobster, you can quickly display, navigate, and play all the tunes stored on your remote computer.

A clever caching system prevents play gaps. You can also grab and save album covers by simply tapping on the space allotted for album covers on the play screen. You can also seek information about the current selection by tapping the Biography option.

Lobster supports MP3, WMA, and WAV formats. This delectable crustacean also functions as an Internet radio tuner. Version 1.2+ comes with some preloaded US, UK, French, and German stations. You can get more from the Lobster Tunes Website, or you can add your own complete with station logo, if you wish.

When you install the program, it will check to see if you have a properly configured UPnP media server such as Windows Media Player 11. A wizard checks to see if the settings are correct, and if not it guides you. LobsterTunes communicates with several other UPnP media servers such as TwondkyMedia, Orb, Yahoo Music Jukebox, Allegro, and TVersity.

It is best to install the program on a memory card because it requires about 10 Megs. Make certain that you install it from the machine you want to access remotely where your music files are stored.

There’s no point in drawing this out any further. Lobster Tunes is a brilliant piece of work that will eliminate the need for cumbersome tune transfers to storage cards and devices. It simply allows you to access your entire music collection anytime anywhere using a Windows Mobile device and an Internet connection.

My recommendation is to go for it. You can try it free for seven days. After that, it’s yours for only $19.95, and there are no usage fees. Of course, there may be substantial phone charges depending on your data plan. It may be better to use this application with a Wi-Fi connection to avoid possible charges and for a faster connection.

Check it out at www.lobstertunes.com.