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Amarok 2 under Ubuntu

http://www.mygnulinux.com

Amarok is my favourite music player. I recently installed version 2 on my Ubuntu 9.04 system but I was having some troubles with it. This is a post suggesting how to fix these problems and make Amarok play perfectly on Ubuntu

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Myka open-source media player | Geeky Gadgets

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com

Myka has launched a new open-source media player which is designed to compete with the Apple TV. The Myka Media player comes with up to 500GB of storage, a built in BitTorrent client, wired and wireless connectivity, a USB port and HDMI, composite and SPDIF inputs.

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Open source closes gap on Microsoft's next Silverlight

http://www.theregister.co.uk

Code has been released for the open-source version of Silverlight that closes the gap on the as-yet-unfinished next version of Microsoft's browser-based media player.

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DAISY Consortium Releases Obi 1.0 - Open Source Accessible Multimedia Authoring Tool

http://www.emediawire.com

Obi, an open source audio recording tool released by the DAISY Consortium, enables a broader audience to produce accessible, navigable information for people with print disabilities. DAISY audio books created with Obi can be produced with chapters, sections, sub-sections and pages, providing navigation to the content. Obi is fully accessible through assistive technologies such as screen readers.

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Open Source Mediaplayer Songbird 1.1.1 released

http://www.heise.de

The open source media player Songbird has been updated to version 1.1.1 which includes several new features and bug fixes. The new version of the Mozilla-based media player now has the ability to watch a folder hierarchy for changes and automatically import new tracks to a user's library.

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EFF butts horns with Apple over open-source iTunes take-down notice

http://www.obsessable.com

Apple's getting flack from the Electronic Frontier Foundation due to its heavy-handed response to a group attempting to untie iPods from the iTunes software. Apple sent a DMCA take-down notice to the Wiki-based site Bluwiki regarding a discussion group known as "iPodhash". The group is trying to reverse engineer the encrypted hash used to secure an iPod's media database.

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Apple uses DMCA as a weapon against an open source iTunes hack

http://www.betanews.com

A simple effort by an open source developer to make his iPod's data legible by a Linux-based program, could balloon into a test of copyright so important that the fate of global trade agreements could hang in the balance.

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Boxee Raises $4 Million for Open-Source Media Center

http://www.readwriteweb.com

These are clearly not the easiest times to secure financing for a startup, but Boxee, which makes an open-source media center application that works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and the Apple TV, just announced a $4 million investment from Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. Bijan Sabet from Spark and Fred Wilson from Union Square will join the Boxee board.

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Weekend Project: Get Your Open Source Media Center Groove On

http://ostatic.com

Slowly but surely, open source media center applications have evolved into rich applications that anyone can get a lot of enjoyment out of. There are now many players in this space, and the applications show a lot of range.

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Amarok 2 beta 2 officially released

http://arstechnica.com

The second beta of the open source Amarok 2 music player was released earlier this week with significant architectural enhancements and many bugfixes. The Amarok team says that development is accelerating as the final release approaches and the program is already stable enough to meet the needs of many users.

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Ogg on the Rise - Free Software Foundation

http://www.fsf.org

The recent launch of Stephen Fry's film in celebration of GNU's 25th anniversary has been a success on a number of levels — including for PlayOgg.org, the campaign for free audio and video formats. Worldwide, people have reached out to thank us and offer their support, including dozens of volunteers who have translated the film into over 24 languages.

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5 Great iTunes Replacements for Managing iPod in Linux

http://www.junauza.com

We all love the iPod, but sadly, Apple is still not kind enough to provide an iPod manager for those of us who use Linux. However, this is not really a big issue nowadays as there are other means to manage your iPod under Linux. Thanks to these excellent free and open source media players that are certified to handle your iPod the way iTunes can.

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Rhythmbox, Gnome music awesomeness

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

Amarok sure inspires a lot of KDE-envy for Gnome users. Unfortunately, it doesn’t fit in well in Gnome: it’s written for a different desktop environment, uses a whole different toolkit, and requires a lot of extra libraries to run. Luckily, there’s a great Gnome-based alternative: Rhythmbox.

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VLC gets a new look on Windows and Linux

http://www.heise.de

After two years in development, VLC, the universal media player, has moved from the 0.8.x versions to version 0.9.2. The release, named "Grishenko", is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other operating systems, is available to download from the Videolan web site. The most visible new feature in the Windows and Linux versions is a new user interface.

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SongBird - free iTunes like Media player and web browser

http://www.susegeek.com

Songbird is a free opensource customizable media player and web browse powered by Mozilla. Songbird runs on Mozilla’s XULRunner platform, thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux. On the Windows and Macintosh platforms, Songbird utilizes the VideoLAN Client for media playback.

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