avvenu
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from the site: “With the Avvenu Music Player, your iTunes playlists are streamed from your home computer to wherever you are, whenever you want. Now you can listen to your music on your work PC, a laptop, a friend’s Mac®, or even on a Windows Mobile 5 smartphone.”
in a nutshell:
i’ve actually used something similar to this called hamachi, but it’s not an application specific to streaming music. in other words, you can do a lot more with it…but why get something that has a bunch of features that you aren’t going to use?
avvenu is pretty easy to use. let’s say you’re like me and you have a portable hard drive where you store all of your music. instead of hauling your portable drive with you everywhere, all you have to do is make sure that hard drive hooked up to a computer that is turned on and has access to the internet. you run avvenu and set it up (it’s pretty easy) and then you can pretty much stream your entire iTunes library through the web browser of a remote computer. in other words…your work computer…or your PSP…or even your browser-enabled phone. awesome.
another pretty cool thing (but i think it’ll eventually get nixxed) is that you can store up to 250 songs on their servers once you create an account. you can listen to those tunes without having your base computer online, and you can also share those songs with friends. they can’t download them…but they can listen.
there are only two real drawbacks i can see:
1. you can’t run this on a mac. well, you could…if you run bootcamp and you have windows xp installed…
2. songs that you’ve purchased through iTunes will not work right off the bat. there is, of course, a way around that. you just burn those songs to a CD and then re-import the CD…thus eliminating the apple DRM (digital rights management).
best of all…it’s free. i like free. you like free. go get it.
on January 26, 2007 on 5:21 am
I agree with your two drawbacks, though i am not a mac user. but i love the sharing feature…agree, very cool. I dont think it will get nixxed…you cant download and more importantly music labels will need to balance public opinion. I think everyone is sick and tired of them already trying to enforce their silly rules.
on January 27, 2007 on 11:27 am
this is where the whole things gets a little fuzzy. i don’t see anything wrong with it. afterall…it’s your music. you’ve allegedly bought the rights for it by buying it. everyone has been paid. you’re just storing it somewhere else. and i agree…you’re who you let listen to it is irrelevant if they aren’t able to download it.
i don’t claim to be any kind of legal expert, but here’s where i see the legal crux being. the law does not define whether or not one should have to own the place where you store digital music in order to keep it in the realm of your legal ownership. in other words, do i need to actually ‘own’ this server where i’m storing my music in order to say that it is legally still mine? or what about using the music for ‘broadcast use’? i don’t know…just throwing it out there. curious to know other opinions on this as well…