Re: [News] Music Management and VoIP Recording with Free Software

[Moshe Goldfarb.]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:00:02 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

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> Open your jukebox: Open-source alternatives for music management
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>| Not mere freeware, but open-source alternatives are well-known for nearly
>| every major category of software. Firefox and Linux are probably the most
>| famous, but OpenOffice, GIMP, Thunderbird, Pidgin, Miro, and others have made
>| themselves known in practically every genre. Heck, there's even an
>| open-source firmware for your portable MP3 player--Rockbox.

Does it do iTunes?
Can I use the iTunes store to purchase music?

No?

It's doomed...

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Moshe Goldfarb
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[thufir]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:35:03 +0000, 7 wrote:


> If you are smart and start using Linux, you can instead use streamtuner
> and streamripper in Linux and tune into 10,000+ Internet radio stations
> of every kind of music on the planet.
>
> Its all free with source code to install on your PCs and turn them into
> proper multi-media workstations


That's not OS dependant. It's just a variation on recording radio
broadcasts, or using a VCR, for personal use.


-Thufir

 

[Firey Bird]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:45:38 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:00:02 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
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>> Open your jukebox: Open-source alternatives for music management
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Not mere freeware, but open-source alternatives are well-known for
>>nearly | every major category of software. Firefox and Linux are
>>probably the most | famous, but OpenOffice, GIMP, Thunderbird, Pidgin,
>>Miro, and others have made | themselves known in practically every
>>genre. Heck, there's even an | open-source firmware for your portable
>>MP3 player--Rockbox.
>
> Does it do iTunes?
> Can I use the iTunes store to purchase music?
>
> No?
>
> It's doomed...

Screw iTunes

 

[Moshe Goldfarb.]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:24:57 +0000 (UTC), Firey Bird wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:45:38 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:00:02 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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>>> Open your jukebox: Open-source alternatives for music management
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Not mere freeware, but open-source alternatives are well-known for
>>>nearly | every major category of software. Firefox and Linux are
>>>probably the most | famous, but OpenOffice, GIMP, Thunderbird, Pidgin,
>>>Miro, and others have made | themselves known in practically every
>>>genre. Heck, there's even an | open-source firmware for your portable
>>>MP3 player--Rockbox.
>>
>> Does it do iTunes?
>> Can I use the iTunes store to purchase music?
>>
>> No?
>>
>> It's doomed...
>
> Screw iTunes

Sour grapes......

Media Monkey is much better though IMHO

AmaCROCK's developers should look at Media Monkey to see how a REAL media
management program should look and work.


--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/