Free media browser
June 23rd, 2005 by teemowOn Kfish’s blog I read something about a free media browser they would like to integrate with rhythmbox like iTunes and the Apple Music Store. This will be a great feature. Daniel and I just had a talk with someone from Apple at the MacExpo here in Cologne. But Apple’s policy will not change, the combination of store, iTunes, iPod, DRM (in AAC) will stay proprietary. It will be a great thing to enter this market with completly free and open standards. There are lots of free podcasts available, lots of Theora video and Vorbis audio files. It would be great to have them easily accessible.
There is an Mozilla Firefox extension for Annodex.net which is a technology to build the so called Continuous Media Web, a massively multi-user, distributed hypermedia environment that works in both streaming and disk contexts.
By the way, Cologne’s MacExpo was pretty boring. We just saw some lectures about Logic Audio and Garageband. The guy gave away free downloads for the Apple Music Store and told everybody to buy Sarah Connor songs, so he would get some money from the GEMA (German performance rights organisation). Yeah right, sure! Best thing was that he told us he looks up his lyrics at this rhyme website. The rest were Apple stuff sellers, mostly iPod stuff, and some software and printing companies.
