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Player

Did the Monkey steal the crown?

February 9, 2010

Last year I del­cared Song­bird, the multi-platform media player and organ­izer the Best Music Player Ever. Now, there’s a chal­lenger for the title, at least in the Win­dows / PC arena; Media­Mon­key. …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

Tagged as: Entertainment, Lifestyle Technology, Music, Player, software, Windows

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Mama’s got a Squeezebox

February 1, 2010

When I was offered a chance to review the Logit­ech Squeeze­box Radio, I believe my exact response was ‘hell yeah!’, because this thing exem­pli­fies a geek gad­get. But wait, it looks like an appli­ance… …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full […]

Tagged as: Lifestyle Technology, Logitech, Media Appliance, News, Player, Radio, Review, Squeezebox, Technology

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Best music player ever. Songbird 1.1.1 now with watched folders.

March 12, 2009
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I’ve writ­ten before about Song­bird, the free, open-source music player based on the Moz­illa / Fire­Fox plat­form.
Basic­ally Song­bird rocks.
Well, now there’s extra-new-and-improved Song­bird good­ness as the update was released this even­ing, with the one sig­ni­fic­ant fea­ture it’s been lack­ing up ’till now — the ‘Watched Folder’ fea­ture.
To quote from the song­bird release email:
Watch Folders
You can choose […]

Tagged as: browser, Firefox, Media, Music, Player, Songbird

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Songbird solves my multi-multimedia player dilemma

December 17, 2008

Between home and work, I have vari­ous Win­dows, Linux and Macin­tosh com­puters. I cent­ral­ize my media on a Net­work Attached Stor­age (NAS) device, access­ible by all. As you can ima­gine, I use dif­fer­ent media play­ers on all.
My biggest hurdle has been con­sist­ency in user exper­i­ence. I’ve had to run iTunes on the Mac, Win­amp, FooBar2000 or […]

Tagged as: Multimedia, Music, Player, Songbird

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