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- dpknc84, on 10/17/2007, -11/+58I feel like you work for them or something.
- tempusrob, on 10/17/2007, -11/+41Jesus dude, spare us the diggvertisment.
- coolian, on 10/12/2007, -13/+33Something fishy is going on. If you look at most of the comments, they're not just positive, but gushy. Too gushy, in fact.
- inactive, on 10/17/2007, -14/+34Honestly, this seems to me like a marketing scheme on digg. All these happy ass responses seem fake to me...
As if the company got all the employees to make digg accounts and leave comments, even though its open source and there probably isnt any company.
I may be wrong, but thats just the impression I get from reading this.. - adragons, on 10/19/2007, -6/+24Stop saying Windoze. It's really annoying.
- evilpig, on 10/17/2007, -10/+28This user and daxavrog both signed up to digg musicplayer and comment on it only.
Thats lame. - SiW73, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16It's hilarious to sit here and read how this is a cold, calculated guerrilla marketing attempt. I feel the same as when a user was complaining about the price of my software and how I was a giant corporation just leeching money when I was sat at my kitchen table in my low-rent housing eating food I managed to get with food stamps and selling my little software app was the only thing bringing in any money.
I digress. I signed up to digg this because the author is a longtime friend and I was actually involved in the development of the original program (that then splintered off into wxMusik) before Casey rewrote everything from the ground up, but mainly because I think it's a nice little app that's worth more exposure. musikCube is not for everyone but it's a great example of a tightly focused application that was developed because nobody else was giving us what we wanted - something small and fast that played all our music while we worked but still gave us the power to run database queries. Much thought is given before adding any feature so as to avoid bloat.
Give it a try if that's the sort of thing you're looking for. If you're perfectly happy with your current music player, that's cool too. - inactive, on 10/17/2007, -9/+24So basically everybody loves musiccube??? LOL!
I'm guessing this is a ploy to convince people musicCube is indeed the greatest thing ever. I'm downloading it now, let's see how it goes. - Schug, on 10/12/2007, -25/+40It's good for people who like minimalistic apps. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people. I like all the glitzy GUIs.
- rajivm, on 10/17/2007, -5/+19disclaimer: I run the website for musikCube.
Many people seem to be claiming that all the positive comments are said by musikCube "employees" or whatever. There are none. No one is forcing them to, no one is telling them not to write that its crap. We have a community of people who like musikCube, no different than that of Firefox (other than the size). I ask that you make an independent appraisal of musikCube- look at it yourself if you don't believe people's claims. I don't run its website because I get paid to, I do because I love the program. - erissiva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Wow. There's people who actually like the software and decided to help bring attention and support to it by promoting it through a technology-related website. That's horrible.
Seriously - if you don't like it, don't digg it. I, for one, have used it for a year or so and have not found a better replacement. Tried foobar2000, Winamp, iTunes, XMPlay, MediaMonkey, and JRiver or the last few years. None of them lived up to the simplicity of Musikcube. Plus, the memory usage is damned low for a media player like this.
I don't need something that runs my toaster, or can play 2 tracks at once over the internet and fade between them while using 16 DSP plugins with visualizations on fullscreen and a ridiculous theme. I need something that will play my music and keep a pretty decent media library organized. That's it. Plus, it always matches my visual style. I mean - if you need those other things then get something else. But if what you want is a small, fast, and pretty solid piece of work that seems to have a good future then use MC. Whatever. - stefeq, on 10/12/2007, -13/+24omg! MusikCube FUNDAMENTALISTS are attacking !!! :D
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12If you check my history you can tell I've been on Digg for a while. Musikcube is genuinely a decent program although I still mainly use Mediamonkey for music organization. Check it out and make your own opinion, that's always the best way to do it.
- SpookyET, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12musikCube grew out of wxMusic. Read the bloody FAQ. Don't digg me down.
- phlewp, on 10/17/2007, -6/+15For those saying "the employees of musikCube signed up to digg this article" - musikCube isn't a company. It's a college student's senior project.
The people who signed up just to digg and comment on this article have nothing to gain by doing so. If anything, it says something about how they feel about musikCube. IOW, they liked it enough to sign up here and post their comments regarding it.
And so what if they signed up to digg and comment? Maybe it's their first exposure to digg. Maybe it's the first thing worthwhile on digg for them to sign up and comment. I'm sure quite a lot of people see something on digg they're interested in, and thus sign up for that. How do you know later on these people won't comment on other things? Or submit other things for digg? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Hmm, I tried Songbird a couple of weeks ago and liked it for the most part but it's only version 0.2 and was buggy. musikCube looks nice, I may give it a try. I've been trying to drop my iTunes habit (especially since I don't even have an iPod).
- snowwolf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Do you digg down every story thats "publicized" like the blogs with "digg this" or most of the articles you see that get on the front page?
I hope you do, because this is almost exactly the same thing, infact, this is pretty much what digg is. I don't want to get into a theoretical discussion about what Digg is, but if you don't think there is outside influence, like this, then you just "don't get it."
And this planning is significantly better than some outside site shilling for hits. Does the site have ads? So they aren't making ***** off us hitting them up, like alot of other sites who shill there posts. This is also an open source educational project.
Digg basically votes in groups, so much so they changed the algorithm, whats wrong with an outside group voting to get something on the front page? - nicabar, on 10/17/2007, -18/+25This is the lamest version release circle-jerk I have ever seen
- jer.williams, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Honestly, I've not tried the program (and I'm among those who think its aesthetics are lacking), but reading the thread you linked doesn't tell me this is a "marketing ploy." It just sounds like they're trying to get the word out, which makes sense for any project, open source or otherwise. Cut them some slack.
- icexe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7i never heard of musikCube before, but WOW!! color me impressed!! thanks for posting this!
- pauldonnelly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It's too bad that money can't buy you a logical argument.
- driya2000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The main reason I use MC is because you can have a music library for each drive, so I can have a library for my laptop and another bigger one when it's hooked up to the network. And it does everything fast. And it loads up all of my most important file types (mp3, wma, ogg, flac, itunes). I don't know about podcasts, I never use them -- we pay internet by the megabyte here. I for one am happy 1.0 is released -- beta 2 was not very customizable and more recent SVN builds had a habit of breaking extensions.
The reason people on MC forums gush about it, is because of selection bias. People only take the time to write to/about stuff they like. Same reason most stock market analyst reports are BUYs. And it's not all praise -- also lots of feature requests and calling out to programmers.
I too have spent a lot of time customizing my foobar2000 setup, so I understand why people may not want to switch to something else. Why people like WMP, Itunes, or Winamp, now that I don't understand. - dontomaso, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yep. It's called Cubescrobbler : http://enthalpy.net/archives/category/cubescrobbler/
- xxdesmus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5All the features of iTunes, but now with less Apple.
Great player, it's making decent progress. - bdbr, on 10/17/2007, -4/+8Funny, I just realized how much memory Winamp uses about two hours ago. I'd decided to use this odd but actually quite good (and free) player called "Quintessential Player". It also can transcode with LAME and some other nice goodies...but musikCube uses so little memory, its perfect as an everyday player for my memory-challenged home laptop! And open-source, too! Dugg!
- ZarK, on 10/17/2007, -0/+4Eh... too short editing opening here on Digg. Anyways what I was about to say: I've used iTunes quite a bit because of my iPod, and it's shiny and all that, but so increcible resource hungry. And when quitting it takes forever just to save the not-changed music library. If it wasn't for my dual-core CPU the system would have freezed a lot.
Just yesterday I got the latest Winamp which magically works with my iPod so goodbye iTunes :)
I think most users will have something in addition to musikCube installed.. I for one use MediaMonkey to organize my library, tag new music etc. And now I'll be using Winamp for my iPod. It's just that time and time again, after a while it's musikCube I start up for the everyday listening to music. Much because of it's dynamic plalists: http://www.musikcube.com/wiki/Dynamic_Playlists - phlewp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'd just like to point out: All you bitching about the UI, this program is not for you.
If you want shiny eye candy, musikCube is not for you. It's meant to be as lightweight and quick as possible, while still using a robust DB for handling music. If you want a pretty looking UI, try something else.
The UI may not look the greatest, but it's still good, and it gets the job done (quickly and efficiently). I could be biased though, as I don't understand the point of a bloated, shiny UI for something like this. I generally like to use my music player to run in the background, while I actually do something more productive than staring at my media player. - ZarK, on 10/17/2007, -0/+4ahaha... resource usage isn't much different.. right :) lmao, good one :)
- morphie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Finally. A music player for windows, which won't include video-support or useless skinning. Finally some decent playlist management. This is what windows lacked, cause Linux already had this with amaroK.
- urbancommando, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5There is a linux version called musikBox. It needs a little help. You seem like you would be interested in developing something not on windows.
- wvstephens, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Well I downloaded it and gave it a try it works pretty well, I would have to say. I don't really listen to much music on my laptop but it quickly added my files from my media server. I like the fact that it is not all bloated with so much eye candy. Easy playlist, I am a big media player classic user but I think I will use this for my music in the future. My laptop only has 256mb ram and well I need to save as much memory as possible and musikcube only uses about 11,000k so that is a big plus. And well since some poor bastard stole my Ipod I guess I can go without iTunes for a while.....
Helpless plea if you have an old ipod well :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Saying "windoze" is even lamer.
- urbancommando, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Only one developer.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10My bad :)
Looks promising, but I got a runtime error at one point and it crashed. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why are apple people commenting on an windows program?
They wouldn't lower them selfs to run windows would they? - klang, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5seriously .. why is this voted down?
I am looking for an iTunes replacement that can rip/burn, syncronize and edit ID3 tags, AND take care of my podcast subscriptions without taking up 46Megs in a non playing state.. - urbancommando, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It would be great if you reported the runtime error in the forum with details on how to replicate because no one else is getting your error.
- thiagoleon, on 11/06/2007, -9/+12Even with the fanatic comments, I decided to give it a try.
I've been using winamp (with classic skins), and haven't found any other player that beats its mini-mode, global shortcuts and search features, among other goodies.
musikCube is a very raw program, that can't compete with the others. Almost no new features, difficult and plain interface, and it is SLOWER than winamp. And it doesn't support Unicode, so good luck finding japanese and other foreign songs in your library.
It's not for me at this time, but I hope it can get better and closer to the most popular players someday. - Blabster, on 10/12/2007, -25/+28One of the best music player, hands down!
I know there are other players...maybe some that come close to this one, but kudos for being opensource + simple yet feature rich :P
Now if could just have an ipod plugin! - dhulser, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7yes
- urbancommando, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually there is a playlist import and export plugin for musikCube.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2VLC is a great video viewer, but it rather sucks as a music player. No library, and for me it'll often skip and be distorted.
- urbancommando, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm sorry, but this is asinine the guy at the top of the thread gets dugg up for making stupid ass comments without foundation and I reveal the truth and I am dugg down. musikCube is open source that means it is free and anyone can look at the source code. There is no musikCube company and there is only one developer. Feel free to digg me down again because obviously something I said was wrong.
- nichodges, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6it would take a lot to tear me away from foobar. I can't think of a feature I want on foobar that isn't there, so someone's going to have to pull out something pretty awesome.
Oh and I'm so impressed by all the positive 'comments'. That's a lot of dedication from a few people to signup and comment so many times. - algios5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4You can change your interface colors as you wish, just have a look in the forum.
- phlewp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You apparentely don't understand the concept of mC. It's not meant to be heavy on eye candy. Generally, eye candy (such as WMP, Winamp, etc) adds bloat. mC is meant to be as streamlined as possible.
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Amarok *does* smoke this app. I've seen a lot of music players, but I've honestly never seen one as good as Amarok.
- 8ight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2carpenter, you've taken a beating here. i like cube actually. just installed and tried it out. very good, but some things i would fix. i won't state them here, i'll probably shoot an email. good product though.
- megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Songbird is very good. I've had it for a week and haven't had a problem yet. Whoever it funding the project intends to make money by using the application as a sales portal, like iTunes, and I think they will be successful at it. And if it folds as a business venture, the code will still be available to all.
- urbancommando, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I decided to try this Songbird everyone is raving about. I have to say I wasn't too impressed it took 4 minutes to catalog all my music, while muskCube took literally 10 seconds. The memory usage by Songbird is outrageous also. 90mbs of ram to sync my music? Then 30mbs when its minimized. musikCube peaked at 12mbs during its sync operation. Also why does it keep trying to access the internet? I don't want my media player wasting my bandwidth while I am trying to get new music. On top of that firefox also seems to be the only program using more CPU than Songbird.
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