Connect360 2.82 review

Your Xbox 360 is capable of playing back your music and viewing your digital photos.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 5426K Developer: Nullriver Software Buy Now Price: $20.00 Updated: 15 Nov 2006

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Your Xbox 360 is capable of playing back your music and viewing your digital photos. With Connect360, your Mac's ready to share.

Connect360 is a program that automatically indexes your iTunes and iPhoto libraries and shares them to your Xbox 360. You can then use the Xbox 360 Dashboard to browse and play your media, organized in the exact same way that it is on your Mac.

iTunes smart

You can browse and play your iTunes music by song, artist, album, genre or playlist. As you add and remove content to/from your iTunes library, Connect360 keeps your Xbox 360 up to date.

You can even listen to your iTunes songs while playing a game on your Xbox 360! Now that's entertainment.

Further, Connect360 can automatically update your iTunes play count and play date for songs played on your Xbox 360.

Shoutcast streaming

Connect360 now supports streaming of live Internet radio broadcasts to your Xbox360! Simply add any station to a playlist and enjoy the live tunes from your Xbox!

iPhoto in big

With Connect360, you can view your iPhoto photo library on your television screen, they're especially beautiful in vivid high definition. Browse by photo album or watch a slideshow, its all easy and fun!

What formats are supported?

Connect360 supports MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF and Apple Lossless for Music. For Photos, Connect360 supports: JPEG, RAW, GIF, PNG, BMP and TIFF. For video streaming, currently only WMV+WMA files are supported.

Requirements:
An Xbox 360 with a network connection
iTunes for music sharing
iPhoto for photo sharing.

Limitations:
The unregistered version of Connect360 is limited to 100 songs and 100 photos.