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Songbird the Open Source iTunes?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the getting-what-you-want-how-you-want-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cnet has an interesting story about a company about to release an open source alternative to iTunes. Apparently, the software can be used with a multitude of music services." From the article: "Apple's iTunes is 'like Internet Explorer, if Internet Explorer could only browse Microsoft.com,' Lord said. 'We love Apple, and appreciate and thank them for setting the bar in terms of user experience. But it's inevitable that the market architecture changes as it matures.'"

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  1. Amen by layer3switch · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Apple's iTunes is 'like Internet Explorer, if Internet Explorer could only browse Microsoft.com,' Lord said."

    Praise the Lord!

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    "Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
  2. Re: title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I read about this about 2 days ago though - is this is a sign that /. is falling behind the times?

    Not at all. It takes a little bit longer for articles to pass editorial review so that we don't have such things as dupes or obvious attempts to increase a poster's AdSense revenue.

  3. It's official by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Lord goes on to say "We love Apple." Of course, us die hard Apple fanboys knew that all along.

  4. Songbird? by winphreak · · Score: 2, Funny

    With names like Thunderbird, Firefox, and Songbird, I think we may just run out of open source animals.

    Seriously, how many dead animals will we install linux on?

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    "I'm a well-wisher, in that I don't wish you any specific harm."
  5. Re:Anyone else notice... by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny
    I can't find how it is related to handhelds though...

    I think it's a masturbation reference.

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.