Comments on: HOWTO: Dump iTunes for An Open Source Upgrade

By: Musik und Filme Downloaden - Schnell, Sicher & Anonym

Musik und Filme Downloaden - Schnell, Sicher & Anonym — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:25:00 +0000

Spiele und Filme downloaden…

Eine Seite, die 3 Usenet Anbieter einmal vergleicht, mit denen man u.a. Musik & Filme downloaden kann, mit einigen GB sogar gratis….

By: mig

mig — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:27:50 +0000

You know, with the default iTunes library Add-on, you can import your library directly from iTunes without having to consolidate it.

See the “Import a Library…” item in the File menu? Try that.

mig

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By: Musik und Filme Downloaden - Schnell, Sicher & Gratis

Musik und Filme Downloaden - Schnell, Sicher & Gratis — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:36:05 +0000

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By: Jon-Michael

Jon-Michael — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:28:49 +0000

Songbird is all right, but definitely not a replacement for iTunes for a few reasons:

1) Obviously, Front Row cannot use Songbird.
2) The Apple remote does not work - third party apps like VLC player and Aurora (alarm clock) respond to the remote, so its not limited to Apple products. Huge drawback for me.
3) No Quicksilver plugin (Quicksilver is an application launcher and utility ninja)
4) No shared libraries. Not a deal-breaker, but on large networks, it’s nice listening to a dormmate’s/co-worker’s/neighbor’s music. Plus, sharing is caring :).

The best part about it is that the basis for the program is Mozilla Firefox.

I disagree - FF’s non-native form elements and sluggishness hampers Songbird. WebKit would have been a better choice had the developers not needed FF’s extensibility.

Songbird might be an alternative in the future, but in its current state (on Mac anyways), iTunes has the upper-hand for integration and conveniences.

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:36:20 +0000

@Micahville - Front Row is the apple application that they ship with all their Macs. Comes with a remote control which enables you to access Music, Photos, Videos and DVD on your Mac without using the keyboard. Great when you have your Mac hooked up to a TV to view the content

By: Micahville

Micahville — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:15:36 +0000

@Chris: Care to explain more about Front Row? I am not familiar.

@Keshav: Contact the developers of Foxytunes about that. Maybe Corey Farwell. He knows some of the programming language for Firefox addons (XUL). Good idea!

By: Keshav (the kid in your math class)

Keshav (the kid in your math class) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:05:50 +0000

when will they make songbird available to work with foxytunes?

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:40:26 +0000

Sounds interesting, but how about working with Front Row? Personally I have 4 Macs in the apartment currently and a Destop PC all on the same ethernet network and all feeding off the same central library, accessible via Front Row on a number of TV’s as well as Mac screens.

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