Roku Partners With MP3tunes, Brings Your iTunes Library To Your Living Room

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You want to listen to your iTunes music library in your living room and you want a simple solution, well, in that case the Roku player may be a good option to consider. After all, Roku has just announced a partnership with MP3tunes and will now begin offering an MP3tunes channel.

So, Roku and MP3tunes. For those that may not be aware, the Roku player is a small set top box that connects to your home television and features channels of content. As of now the Roku offer goodies such as Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand, Mediafly, MLB.tv and Ultimate Fighting Championship. And for the geekier audience, you can also check out the Revision 3 and TWiT channels. But that aside, you want music in the form of your iTunes music library and that is where MP3tunes comes into play.

MP3tunes is a service which allows the user to create a locker, in which you can upload, store and later access your music files from any internet connected device. In this case, that device is the Roku player, which is done by way of the recently added MP3tunes channel.

Bottom line, this will take a little bit of time to setup as you will have to upload a copy of your music files to your locker. But once ready you will have be able to enjoy your iTunes away from your computer and without earbuds.

Otherwise, the MP3tunes locker is 10GB and comes free for Roku users. And in addition to listening on the Roku, you can also enjoy yur music on an iPhone, iPod touch or Android smartphone as well as other devices such as the Nintendo Wii and Chumby using that same music locker.

And for those wondering, MP3tunes has been around for a while, in fact, they have been around for much longer than it has been cool to store files in the “cloud.”