blog.audiojungle.net — Songbird turned 1.0 this week, and aims to do to iTunes what Firefox did to Internet Explorer. That is, it aims to take the basic design of something closed and proprietary, and turn it into something open and extensible and fun. Songbird aims to give the power back to the people.
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dalnet22Dec 8, 2008
Are the Amazon MP3s of the same bit rate as the iTunes AAC?
Closed AccountDec 9, 2008
Does your mom know you're gay?
jfreemanDec 13, 2008
Is this a media player or a browser with some media-playing features? I already have a browser and don't need another one.
amdphreakMar 10, 2009
you don't understand the concept of "beta" do you.also, it can be pretty hard to design a stable media player if you're designing for a large population of people who don't necessarily keep their computers trim and clean, and who probably have half-uninstalled a bunch of software and deleted files in the windows directory.yeah, I've seen this stuff happen. it happens every day in high schools.
amdphreakMar 10, 2009
find another podcast manager. I'm a software collector. I haven't needed to look for software in this area, but my educated guess is that there is a piece of free software out there that is good at managing Podcasts. You also might try reading about RockBox Open source jukebox software for iPods and such. they might have something that communicates with RockBox, bypassing the iPod OS.
amdphreakMar 10, 2009
"starts quickly"um, what iTunes are YOU talking about? I installed version 7.42 so I could strip DRM, but it still loads slowly."runs smoothly"runs and runs and runs until you "run" right out of RAM, that is."buy music and apps for my iPhone"you just screwed up.
amdphreakMar 10, 2009
"To have spent 2700$ on my mac book pro to have to deal with the primitive design of ITunes is preposterous! ridiculous! not right!"don't do it again. get a friend to custom-build a computer for less. or find a good custom-laptop website, then get a copy of Linux if you're up to it, or get Windows 7 when it comes out. it promises very good speed functionality (i've been beta testing it for a week, and it's done better than a stable up-to-date copy of XP does----on the same crappy Dell laptop).
hugodomJun 4, 2009
Defenetly. I have an Ipod and I want to use it all the time! And podcasts!