sondigo.com — A new product from Canadian company Sondigo allows you to stream audio around your home network and neatly avoids all DRM hassles, playing protected content from any online store in any format your PC can play.
May 30, 2006 View in Crawl 4
shooksMay 30, 2006
Very cool stuff. Gotta love the DRM freedom and wireless convenience. I'm with you on the need for a Mac driver though...
Closed AccountMay 30, 2006
NIce tech but.. the limitations of DRM still show.. you can't have remote control over your content.. If they did decide to implement remote control features they would either have to use crude SendKeys-type messages to the media player windows or implement an API for each one you want to control.
iliketurtles2May 30, 2006
Is there anything similar to this available for Windows which will stream audio from my PC to another (or many) PC's? It would be cool to get the same music coming from all of my flatmates computers.I've tried Shoutcast and other internet radio servers/applications but all they end up out of sync.
tavisjohnMay 30, 2006
This is still bending over and accepting DRM!I strip off ALL DRM then I archive them on a music server. I also back up all my digital music onto DVD's incase of HD failure.If I had the money I would run a RAID with a parody drive so if one drive failed, It would be rebuilt, and I would notloose any data.
klaruzMay 30, 2006
If you paid for music and then stripped the DRM you accepted DRM. You also lined the pocket books of the people you hate and broke the law.Just don't buy anything DRM in it, ever. It's the only way to say you don't want restrictions on your media.
csicksMay 30, 2006
Did you see the product page:<a class="user" href="http://sondigo.com/sondigostore/product_info.php?products_id=28">http://sondigo.com/sondigostore/product_info.php?products_id=28</a>I just love when every single sentence in the description ends with an exclamation point. Omigosh! This product is amazing!!Typos, too. Why can't tech companies tell the difference between it's and its?
zbeastMay 30, 2006
I have a easy work around for drm'ed files. Don't use them. This is still bending over backwards and jumping thought hoops to play something you paid money for.This is just a band-aid on something that's broken.
sophiaperennisMay 31, 2006
I would never buy DRM'ed content, so who cares about DRM side-stepping, as if it's better than the cha-cha-cha.Just say NO to DRM'ed content. Apple's iTunes AAC 128Kbit/sec quality just doesn't cut it, regardless of DRM, especially for classical music. If I am going to pay for music, give me atleast 320Kbit/sec quality or better.I've said it many times, and will say it again: DRM is not about content-protection, it is about market-share protection.