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Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released

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Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released

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Post by callahad »

Argorak wrote: post #27
yankcrime wrote: post #6

I'd have hoped that an 'iTunes replacement' would be one that's somewhat less bloaty. I don't see Miro filling that gap, given it includes such nonsense as a BitTorrent client.

Which is actually the greatest feature of Miro. There are a lot of interesting feeds flying around the Miro bittorrent network. For example all confreaks conference videos.

Isn't that how Miro started life? As a video player that used torrents for distribution, and RSS feeds for discovery?

In that light, the inclusion of a BitTorrent client is less surprising.

Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released

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Post by Argorak »

callahad wrote: post #34
Argorak wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is actually the greatest feature of Miro. There are a lot of interesting feeds flying around the Miro bittorrent network. For example all confreaks conference videos.

Isn't that how Miro started life? As a video player that used torrents for distribution, and RSS feeds for discovery? In that light, the inclusion of a BitTorrent client is less surprising.

Yes, exactly. And it actually works and is used.

Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released

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Post by Argorak »

rawsyntax wrote: post #10

It's not an iTunes replacement at all. I have an iPhone and buy apps through iTunes sometimes. This doesn't have that functionality (nor the syncing with the iPhone). Also, it has a bittorrent client built in... Why?

Because Miro is the client for a video publishing platform that allows content providers to publish video streams to miro using rss and then have miro distribute it via bittorrent. Users are then able to search the Miro catalog and subscribe to those feeds if they are interested. For video-podcast addicts, thats really great.

Its not a tacked on feature, this is actually the core feature of Miro - its a distributed video player/content provider. Not an iTunes replacement at all.

Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released

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Post by benihana »

sigzero wrote: post #12
SwellJoe wrote: post #7

I wish media player developers would stop trying to imitate iTunes. I hate iTunes. It's confusing (it's caused me to delete my entire music collection on my PC on multiple occasions), it's huge and demanding (of my focus/attention, and also computing resources) where it shouldn't be, and its integration with iTunes store is pointless and annoying to me (I don't shop at iTunes). It's great that seemingly high quality…

"It's confusing (it's caused me to delete my entire music collection on my PC on multiple occasions)" What? Ummmm....even my super non-techie wife hasn't done that.

I've done this before, but on Windows. There was a setting with an older version of iTunes on Windows where it would automatically manage your music, which means that it moves it around and takes ownership of it. If you try to delete something from your itunes library, that you thought you copied, it would actually delete your music, not the link between itunes and your music.
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