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Oboe Offers Portable Playlist
Chiggers writes to tell us that Mad Penguin has an interesting look at Oboe, the new music service from MP3Tunes. For a monthly fee Oboe allows you unlimited space to create a cross-platform music playlist available anywhere you have an internet connection via their AJAX-enabled GUI. The audio player still needs a little work but overall it is an interesting idea.
ampache can do this:
http://www.ampache.org/
kplaylist is a bit more lightweight (i use it):
http://kplaylist.net/
jinzora is a bloat beast, but a nice one at that:
http://www.jinzora.org/
1.) 60 Gigs of Music would take a good while to upload at 32k/sec.
2.) This assumes you always have internet connectivity.
3.) Just seems like a huge pain really, and for what gain?
4.) I can do the same thing right now if I wanted to with my broadband connection.
5.) This is more convienent than my iPod how? Cheaper in the short run maybe, but not more convienent.
Someone needs to explain the need for this. Maybe for a small segment of the population that has internet access and a computer attached to their hip 24/7 this would work. The review says he has problems carrying around an iPod, even an iPod nano, because he would forget it.
Come on people. I don't see how this can possible last, or take off and the capital investment involved on the company's side as far as storage and bandwith costs doesn't seem at all to be covered by $40/year?? How does the company make a profit off that? That seems a bit ridiculous to me. I'd be leery of uploading my entire collection of music to a third party. Especially one of questionable staying power. So I spend hours and hours uploading my entire collection and then what happens when it all goes down?
Just don't think this was well thought out.