SimplifyMedia extends iTunes sharing to buddies

DOT.TUNES does it so much better. I tried simplifymedia, and was stymied about how DIFFICULT it was to use! I downloaded DOT.TUNES and it just worked. I had to configure my router, but aside from that, it was a fairly simple procedure.

#22 -- Michael, thanks for the link. MyTunesRSS is fine for access to your own media, but SM is intended to also enable sharing between you and your buddies.

You might also want to have a look at MyTunesRSS. Currently at version 3.0.4 and an early access program for version 3.1 available at our forums.

http://www.codewave.de/products/mytunesrss
http://board.codewave.de

Kind regards
Michael Descher

This worked pretty seamlessly for me & a friend, even with my music on a separate internal hard drive. One drawback is that it shares your Music folder, with no option to share only selected playlists as iTunes will let you do on a local network.

I have a lot of audio files not worth sharing, would be nice to specify selected media instead of the entire master Music folder.

Otherwise, pretty cool!

I just tried SimplfyMedia out...sharing my iTunes library at home with myself at work. It works - sort of. Once I start playing a song at work on my windows machine, Task Manager tells me that SimplifyMedia is consuming approximately 80-90% of my CPU (Dell Imspiron 1.7GHz Pentium M). This is unacceptable but I guess you get what you pay for...maybe next release?

@YankInOz: We are sorry you had problems with Simplify Media. We'll look into any Spotlight conflicts. Thanks!

Song duplicates are common, but it isn't us. The iTunes boards have had questions about this for years, the most common of which may be around the "Copy files to the iTunes Music folder when adding to library" preference. People may not notice this because iTunes only displays one copy in your local library. We show both because we display all files in the folders you choose to share.

Simplify Media does not duplicate, create, delete or edit any files in your music directories. We also make no changes to your local iTunes library or the database Apple uses to store your iTunes information. I hope this helps.

OK.... I have tried it for several days...
My findings:

Spotlight no longer works if I leave it running. Shut it off and Spotlight works fine.

I see double counts of my music in my playlists and main music file. So instead of 12,000 + songs, I have over 24,000 songs. Not funny. When I do an get info - it tells e teh double is my shared file in a new register in iTunes folder!!! REALLY not funny. It dupped the songs.

REALLY slows down my ADSL 2+ speed. Even if neither of us are palying shared music at the time.

Th eonly way to solve these attrocities is to repair permissions (or OnyX my sys) and reboot.

NOT WORTH IT - VEN THO IT IS FREE. YOU OWE ME MY TIME BACK!!!

Phuque!!!!

Yeah, i know, I used the wrong spelling for your.
I saw that and was instantly dissapointed in myself.

Danny

Hey Paul,

I know some people don't care too much about application icons, but there is a large crowd in the mac community that does. You might want to get a designer to make a better icon then the one you have right now. The "S" does not do you're program justice.

Danny

an update: popup removed from simplify media

We have posted a new build on our website that does not include the Buy Music popup. New users will not see this window, and current users can reinstall if they prefer. This is our first public beta release, so we are looking for this kind of feedback to make our product better.

The point of the Amazon links was to enable people to buy songs they discover. However, it was meant to be a convenience, not an annoyance. We hope to provide an option to do this in the future that is much less obtrusive and not a popup.

Paul Joyce, co-founder Simplify Media