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hey guys this is Adam Lane with pocketnow.com I'm going to try to show you a little bit of the DLNA digital Living Network Alliance music sharing features in action so let's check it out here I've got the Samsung Vibrant and it's running all share which is an app that's included on the device and this is a DLNA compatible app that allows you to browse and play music crowd laughs this is actually streaming off of my media center PC in the other room and to put works pretty well when we posit for now and if I go back this is what I start out with I can choose play file from server up on my phone then I can choose my media center on my tablet and it's going to bring up a listing I can go to music if you've got a really big library like I do this can get kind of slow you know browsing for the music that you want play so yeah you gotta wait but anyway once this comes up you'll see a listing of artists and different ways to organize your music and you can choose to find your music that way and then add it to a playlist that it will stream automatically over the network you have to be on the same Wi-Fi network this work we're not happening here so I'm going to put that down and show you that Windows 7 actually supports this right out of the box so if I launch Windows Media Player here and I go to stream and then there's many item called automatically allowed devices to play my media if I hit that this turns on DLNA server just like that automatically allow all computers to blah blah blah so that's really nice that's built right in to Windows 7 and then over here you see these are the libraries on my on my tablet here and here's another library that's my media center which is another room and you know I can browse that library just very easily and here's the phone here's the Android phone and it's also listed here and it will try to connect to that but I don't think I'll work oh here we go so here's the phone running all sure and here's my PC with Windows Media Player and I can see all the music that's on the phone let's see if it works there we go now I'm streaming music on this phone to my tablet PC computer so that is really nice deposit and that's what DLNA is about being able to share your music your videos pictures etc very easily between phones PCs and whatever other kind of devices that are designed to be compatible if you don't have Windows you can download all sorts of other DLNA servers that are compatible and if you don't have all share on your Android device there's all sorts of other DLNA clients that you can download from the marketplace and we've also heard that Windows 7 there's going to be some DLNA compatible software and devices for Windows Phone 7 as well so pretty nice and really great for easy music sharing on multiple devices that's it for now