How to wirelessly share music on your iPhone, iPod or iPad

If you believe half the fun of listening to a great song is sharing it with friends, a new app might just be music to your ears.

MyStream is a music-streaming app that lets you share what you're listening to with others on the same Wi-Fi network or via Bluetooth. Consider it similar to using a headphone splitter -- but in this case you need not be tethered to your friend.

Setting up the free app takes only about one minute as you need to give yourself only a profile name and enable audio streaming. Now, anyone connected on your wireless network (or Bluetooth) will see your profile name under "Streamers" and can tap to open up what you've got to share, be it songs, podcasts or audio books.

MyStream is meant to expose you and your friends to new music, but the app doesn't promote piracy. You cannot save the song you're listening to, for example. Plus, there's an icon you can tap to buy the song on iTunes.

You can pause tracks, skip forward or back between them and adjust volume -- but you can't move forward or back inside a song.

Also, keep in mind that while you can listen to full songs with other users who are live streaming -- up to 20 people over Wi-Fi or five through Bluetooth -- you must be listening to the same track at the same time. Otherwise, you can choose to import music into your MyStream playlist, but your friends can hear only a 90-second clip of your songs.

To clarify, you can hear full songs if your friends are also listening to them, but only 90 seconds if they're not.

The app also includes a social-networking element as you can broadcast what you're listening to on your Facebook profile page.

MyStream is a great idea and a well-executed app. Sure, it has restrictions, like being able to hear only 90 seconds of the song if your friends aren't live streaming it, but it does build upon most other social music apps.