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Whamb Audio Player Shares Via Rendezvous

Posted by pudge on Friday January 3, 2003 @05:21AM from the i-think-apple-should-do-something-like-that dept.

Stéphane Thiell writes, "I just released an update of Whamb, a little shareware CD/MP3/OGG player for Mac OS X 10.2. It's not as advanced as iTunes, though it now has playlists sharing using Rendezvous. A friend even wrote a tool in Perl which allows to run playlists server on POSIX systems." Nifty. It's still in development, but works pretty well. I've got the Perl daemon running too, with some local modifications. The Rendezvous support has some scalability issues with my 25GB of MP3s, which maybe why iTunes still doesn't have it ...

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Re:My Quick review by Erasei · 2003-01-03 08:29 · Score: 3, Insightful

I think the whole selling point of this app is the Rendezvous support. So your review is like someone revewing a flying car and comparing its ground-driving to that of a Lincoln town car. Of course the town car is going to be better on the ground, but town cars can't fly.. and neither can iTunes. I am not flaming.. just, uh, providing a counter-viewpoint :)

Posting this from a 650 iBook, I can say that if it will play the same tunes, and save 30% of resources over iTunes, I might actually go download this. I run iTunes hidden almost always, so looks aren't important. Free the resources, skip the GUI. MHO.

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Nice. by thatguywhoiam · 2003-01-03 08:37 · Score: 3, Insightful

I think you beat Apple by.. 4 days. Heh.
Still, it's got OGG, so good on ya.

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