Judge From Afar
My iTunes is loaded with so many plugins that I always thought it had attained a technological nirvana only possible through a massive collection of custom scripts. I can have it automatically open the Wikipedia page for the band I’m listening to, I can have it make a playlist of all songs without artwork, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I could have it making me coffee one of these days. But I was wrong, as arrogant music/tech geeks usually are. We all have a long way to go.
Simplify Media is a new plugin that lets you view and listen to your friends’ music libraries from anywhere. Until now you had to be on the same network, but now you only have to be online. You can listen to your home music library at work, or create a social music network of up to 30 people and all share streaming music at a bit-rate of 160kbps. You are free to judge your friend’s taste from anywhere in the world (and it might be time to hide some of your guilty pleasures). The program won’t let you download the music to your own computer, but I’m sure some clever folks can find a way around that (not that I’m openly condoning it, but we’ve all got an inner pirate.)
Oh yah, it’s also freeware.
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