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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. Didn't Stebe Demo this? by pauljlucas · · Score: 5, Interesting
    At the previous MacWorld (not Jan '03), I remember Steve giving a demo where one of his VPs came on stage with a PowerBook and that PowerBook's iTunes library appeared on Steve's desktop Mac. The VP closed the lid on the PowerBook and the library disappeared. All by Rendezvous. And yet I've not seen or heard anything about that feature since. The current iTunes doesn't do that.

    Anybody else remember that demo? Anybody know what happened to that feature?

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  2. Re:X=? by NaugaHunter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Somewhat related to the 'billion dollars a minute', where does this stand against Clear Channel's new Public Scare Announcement? Essentially it goes on in this manner: "Think about how many mp3's are on your computer. Now multiply that by, let's say, $1 each. Now multiply that by a thousand. That's how much you can be fined..." It makes absolutely no distinction about whether or not you are allowed to have them - if you've ripped them on your own, if they were installed by software, or even if they came on the computer when you bought it. If only I could get other stations in this office.

    What do you mean Clear Channel owns them all? Well, that's a seperate rant.

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  3. Re:Why? by FatRatBastard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why is everyone so obsessed with adding wireless capabilities to the iPod? Not a flame, really, I'm just trying to understand, what am I missing...

    Why I would like this is if I had a stereo reciever that could, via bluetooth or 802.11 read my iPod. Thus, no wires I can listen to my music whereever. If I'm at the computer I can pump it through iTunes, if I'm in the living room I can pump it thru the stereo. Yes, I can do this with wires currently, but it would be nice if I could do it wirelessly. Not a must have, but I'd plunk down cash very quickly if something like this was offered.

  4. now how about... by burns210 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    a plugin for quicktime? Sharing movies would be a perfect extention of this software plugin.