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iCommune for iTunes Shares Over Network
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).
It would be very smart to put a disclaimer with your beta saying that you do not endorse the sharing of copyrighted files without the permission of the copyright holder. It is best to be paranoid about such things because then you can distance yourself from the inevitable lawsuit.
From my personal POV, however, this is a great thing. File-sharing has introduced me to many artists that I would otherwise never have heard of, let alone bought. Some of my favorite artists are, in fact, ones I first heard in MP3 format. If only RIAA would see what a boon such prgrams are, rather than suing the creators of such programs...
Actually I am a lab rat in an elaborate plot to take over the world.
Smells like well-cooked Mac-Napster. The RIAA will ask to get a court permission to hack all Mac users and look for 'illegal MP3s'... especially people with 8 CDRs (8x CDRs are equivalent to 8 burners according to RIAA) in their computers. Will this be **THE** FUCK-YOU-RIAA application?
Anybody else remember that demo? Anybody know what happened to that feature?
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I thought we'd long accepted the idea that p2p doesn't cost the music business a dime, and that sales actually increased noticeably during Napster's heyday. My music buying certainly soared while Napster was big - I was getting access to so many different records that I'd only ever heard ABOUT before - it was wonderful.
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Wow. Rendezvous sounds like a really convenient way to do this sort of thing. I've recently delved into the universe of Java-Cocoa. Does anyone know if Rendezvous is conveniently available to a Java-Cocoa app?
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Imagine if every basement coder submitted their beta "vision" projects to slashdot, this would be nothing short of sourceforge without the benefit of source.
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I don't see anything about GNU/GPL. So there you have it. But good job... I guess.
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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That description sounds strikingly similar to the way Napster used to work. hmmmm... Let's see how long Apple will last ;)
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...
I want my MP3s on my stereo - i walk downstairs with the very small, very light iPod and plug it in. If I had a car, I'd get one of those iTrip things. Wireless just seems wasted when you can just walk anywhere with it, you know?
Again, unless I'm missing something...?
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and this proggie is different from Gnutella
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Besides the fact that I followed all the instructions for iCommune and it doesn't seem to work. This product doesn't seem to be Rendezous enabled.. doesn't seem that useful. Apple will come out with something much better soon I'm sure.
"Edna allows you to access your MP3 collection from any networked computer. This software streams your MP3s via HTTP to any MP3 player that supports playing off a remote connection (e.g. Winamp, FreeAmp, Sonique, XMMS)."
:)
A Python stand alone that will index music files and serve up dynamic pages...keeps stats too. Very nice
a plugin for quicktime? Sharing movies would be a perfect extention of this software plugin.
... and I'd want, obviously, SSL encryption and some form of authentication since I don't want anyone else l33ching me. If I did, I'd just use Acquisition.
Also, I assume it's open source? Elsewise it's useless imho..