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Back when I had a morning commute, I would often pop in someearbuds before hopping on the bus and rock out to one of the manytunes on my iPhone as we rode through Chinatown. The problem, ofcourse, came when I reached my desk mid-song: Did I pause and tryand find the song on my Mac s iTunes library? Or did I continue tolisten through my iPhone, only to look up hours later and realizeI d drained my phone s battery when I should have switched to mydesktop? Luckily, there was Seamless ( Mac App Store link ), a little app actually, a pair of apps, a free one for the Macand a $2 app for the iPhone to rescue me from this daunting first-world problem. Seamless allows you to easily transition a song, podcast, oraudiobook mid-play from your Mac to an iOS device, and vice versa.The Mac and iOS apps even coordinate fades on each device, bringingthe volume of Don t Stop Believin down on your Mac as itcranks up the volume on your iPhone. Both devices need to be on thesame Wi-Fi network at the time of the transition, and, of course,each must have access to the same audio file to pull this off, butfulfill those two criteria and you ve got yourself a magic trick. It s actually surprising how well this works in practice. Seamlesseven recognizes iTunes Match tracks, and will start downloading acloud-hosted song to your iPhone on its transition from your Mac.(I ve used this trick on more than one occasion to add a fewtracks to my iPhone s offline library for a flight or a roadtrip.) To see Seamless in action, you can check out thedeveloper s demo video . Though the Seamless apps perform the Mac-to-iOS-to-Mac transitions,they query and play tracks through iTunes on your Mac and the Musicapp on iOS. This means that once your transitioned song finishesplaying, the respective music app will automatically shuffle orplay the next song. If you re playing a song within a playlist onyour Mac, and you also have that playlist on your iOS device,Seamless will even drop you off inside that playlist, ready to playthe next song in the lineup. (Sadly, this doesn t work whentransitioning from an iOS device to a Mac, but it s still prettynifty.) Even though my morning commute has now been shortened one bus ride,Seamless is still a fantastic little gem, and one I m glad exists.I do wish there was a way to transition music from one iOS deviceto another say, iPhone to iPad but that s about as far as mycomplaints go. Now, if you ll excuse me, I m going to transitionCake s I Feel Free over to my iPhone and go out for somelunch. [Serenity Caldwell is an associate editor for Macworld.]. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as China Protocol Converters , Industrial Ethernet Switches, and more. For more , please visit Fiber to Serial Converter today!
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