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iCommune for iTunes Shares Over Network

Posted by pudge on from the sweeeeet dept.

James G. Speth writes "I just released a free public beta of iCommune, a plug-in for iTunes that enables music sharing over the network. Your friends' music libraries appear in the iTunes source list. You can browse their collections, and choose to download or stream their music. It also allows you to make your own music library available to others." It's a bit buggy, but it is a beta. It shows a lot of promise. It also comes with an indexer (in Python, though I might write my own in Perl :-) so you can share MP3s to iTunes clients outside of iTunes on the server end (such as from a Linux box, in theory).

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  1. Yes... by Lord+Satri · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, Apple is suppose to allow iTunes sharing using the Rendez-vous technology eventually.

    Then iCommune will soon be obsolete ! (and this topic should not have appeared on /.)

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    Animoog.org
  2. So where is the source? by cioxx · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Why is this project (in beta I might add) was approved to be posted on slashdot is beyond me. Sure, it's a fairly good tool for what it's worth, but essentially it's in a binary form, so no dice.

    If you look around, /. is very Open Source centric. There are billions of applications out there which rank really high in my book, but usually don't slip through the filters because of their nature. In this case - closed source.

    Imagine if every basement coder submitted their beta "vision" projects to slashdot, this would be nothing short of sourceforge without the benefit of source.

    To blockquoth the Readme in the .sit package:
    "This documentation and the software described in it are copyrighted © 2002 by The Coronado Institute, Inc. with all rights reserved worldwide. It may be freely distributed and copied as long as the resource files and documentation remain unchanged from their distributed form. You are encouraged to make copies and give them to anyone you like, again so long as they remain unchanged. Neither the package nor any of its components may be sold or bundled with any software that is sold, including shareware, without written permission."


    I don't see anything about GNU/GPL. So there you have it. But good job... I guess.