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DoubleTwist For Windows Adds Native Libraries, IPhone Support
6:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows: The promised Amazon MP3 Store is still a week or so away, but doubleTwist has upgraded its Windows media manager with as-you-type search, native libraries without WMP or iTunes, and syncing with the latest iPhones and iPod touch models. More »
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SkiniTunes Mini Player Adds Lyrics, IM Updates To iTunes
9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: SkiniTunes solves some of the deficiencies of iTunes’ mini player, adding album covers, lyrics, instant ratings, and a few other nice features. The $US5 pro edition, however, locks down the global hotkeys. More »
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Songbird iPod Add-On Fixed
9:00PM Kevin Purdy | A bug that caused music to be deleted off some iPods has been fixed by the Songbird developers. The fixed and updated add-on has been uploaded to Songbird’s servers, and anyone with the add-on installed should be prompted for an update on launching or checking for it. Did you lose any tracks, even just temporarily, to Songbird’s confused database? More »
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vlc4iphone Ports VLC Media Player to… You Guessed It
9:30AM Adam Pash | Jailbroken iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application vlc4iphone ports the popular open-source media player VLC—voted as one of the best desktop media players by Lifehacker readers—to your iPhone or iPod touch. Apart from supporting virtually any media type you throw at it (I’d recommend using an app like previously mentioned DiskAid to get media to your iPhone), the VLC port streams internet radio, and can even stream media over your network. If you’re dying to play unsupported file types on your device and aren’t eager to transcode them to do so, vlc4iphone can do the trick. vlc4iphone is free, requires a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch. The app is still rough around the edges (some playback was buggy for me, and there’s no landscape mode), but it’s not a bad start. Thanks Niranjan! vlc4iphone [zodttd] More »
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Turn Your Mac into an Internet Jukebox with Jinzora
8:00AM Adam Pash | Weblog Simple Help details how to install and set up the free, open-source internet jukebox Jinzora on your Mac. Gina already showed you how to install Jinzora on your Windows PC so you can listen to your music anywhere over the internet, so if you were aching to try it out yourself on a Mac, Simple Help’s guide is for you. If you’ve been using Jinzora (or a similar solution) since we covered it, let’s hear how it’s working for you in the comments. How to install and setup Jinzora (streaming media server) in OS X [Simple Help] More »
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Watch Movies On Your Mobile Device with TCPMP
11:30PM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows Mobile/Windows CE/Palm OS: Although development has halted on the project, The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) remains a robust option for media playback on Windows and Palm-based mobile devices. TCPMP supports video streaming and a wide variety of video formats including AVI, MP4, ASF, MPEG 1 and 4, WMV, DivX and XviD, to name a few. TCPMP also plays back several digital audio file formats, including MP3, OGG, and WAV. TCPMP’s interface is simple and clean with emphasis on ease of playback and a light memory footprint. TCPMP is a free download for Windows Mobile/CE and Palm OS. The Core Pocket Media Player [via FreewarePPC] More »
Watch YouTube Clips Inside GNOME’s Built-In Movie Player
4:00AM Kevin Purdy | The Tombuntu blog points out something many GNOME-based Linux users may not have known—the newest version of Totem (available in the Hardy Heron beta), the default multimedia player, can search and play YouTube videos directly through the video sharing site’s API. Simply head to Edit->Plugins->Configure plugins, then check the “YouTube” plugin. Want some of the higher-res goodies web viewers are getting? Go ahead and grab a H264 plugin and activate it the same way. From my experience, search runs a little slower, but I haven’t seen the occasional syncing/freezing problems once in Totem that I often spot at the Flash-based player. More »Foobar2000
5:59AM Adam Pash | Popular barebones media player foobar2000 has updated its interface and added several other features in the latest release. Not sure about foobar2k? Marvel at the beauty of foobar2k customizations by your fellow readers. [via] More »
Bring Your ABC to the Desktop with ABC Now
10:24AM Sarah Stokely | Our national broadcaster has added another string to its multimedia bow with the release of desktop gadget ABC Now, which is essentially a media player which lets you get ABC news headlines, radio
streams, podcasts and TV highlights on your PC. You can also get weather updates.One nice feature is the ability to create a Favourites menu. When you’re browsing content in the “Find” section, each item has a “heart” icon and a “+” sign, which you just need to click to add to your Favourites list.Cricket fans should note that “technical difficulties” mean they can’t broadcast the cricket through ABC Now yet. You’ll need to be using either Real Player or Windows Media Player. Right now ABC now is Windows only, but they’ve promised a Mac version soon.I’ve raved before about our national broadcaster’s efforts to do multimedia broadcasting well, and ABC Now is a nice addition to their offerings. I’ll need to do some experimenting to see if this standalone gadget can be incorporated into iGoogle or something similar. If you experiment, let us know how you get on in comments.This new feature was spotted at APC. More » 