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Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:28:34 +0000

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By: themonkey

themonkey — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:41:30 +0000

Eerr, mycast.orb? is much better.

By: BB

BB — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:03:06 +0000

The one thing that apple and any other portable mp3 company won’t like us that the more pprole that turn to over the web music, the less their products will be bought. And they’ll start going after sites like this. Yes this site found a loop hole that makes it technicly legal, I’m almost positive that they’ll make it look eligal when they go to sue these site.

But in my opinion this is a cool site. I’m just stating facts.

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Just a random blog ! — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:11:37 +0000

[...] alternative mobile music services are MyStrands, Avvenu, Pandora, or mobile Rhapsody radio, which costs $6.95/month. However, a study conducted last year [...]

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Tue, 22 May 2007 23:02:58 +0000

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:40:50 +0000

Barty:
There is an explanation why you may have had a problem sharing your music. Once you click on “share”, your shared playlist is copied to Avvenu’s secure media servers. It is from the Avvenu media server that we stream the playlist to your friend. This ensures they can listen to the music even when your computer is off-line. The time it takes to upload the shared playlist to Avvenu’s media servers depend on the number of tracks and your upstream bandwidth. Your iTunes PC must be also online and connected to Avvenu until all the playlist has been uploaded. We plan to put a progress bar in the next update of this beta version.

Also the Avvenu Music Player does not support DRM protected music – DRM protected music will not load.

By: Rocker

Rocker — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:48:22 +0000

What’s amazing is the sharing. I just sent a share of a playlist I created from Cd’s I go at christmas, to 3 friends across the country. Works like a charm.

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Take your iTunes library with you | PikeMall Tech — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:41:32 +0000

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By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:29:42 +0000

Orb does this and more, WITHOUT third party servers and a 250 song restriction.

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:33:28 +0000

Fabrik is doing this too, http://www.myfabrik.com. It’s Internet-based, so not only can you store, organize (tag) and share your stuff, you can listen to your music from anywhere, and from almost any device. Check out the interface too. It’s sweet.

By: bhatia

bhatia — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:42:53 +0000

I finally tried it, after this post and it works great. I mean we can stream my itunes collection on my (home) computer to my work laptop. Already sent five sets of music sharing to my friends. I like this service.

By: theipphoneguy

theipphoneguy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:23:34 +0000

Avvenu is simply extending browser-based access to remotely stored media using what we all know will be the preferred, portable device.

Now how will they monetize it?

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Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:10:20 +0000

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TechCast Weekly - Computer Help and Computer knowledge — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:08:44 +0000

Take your iTunes library with you…

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By: CrunchBack

CrunchBack — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:43:22 +0000

Very cool – all of the devices in 5 years will have this capability natively and Avvenu may have no market. Hope the RIAA guys don’t go after this too…

Permissible use may not include broadcasting your collection to the masses… I’m pretty sure that royalties would need to be involved (e.g. you are a radio station ??).

By: Kenyon Potter

Kenyon Potter — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:50:15 +0000

I agree with many of the above comments. Avvenu is great for some cell phone users. Orb is great for cell phone users who wish to unlock their music, photos and videos. Another alternative is ViiBlast.com which stores all a user’s media files in a personal media center on a web-accessible server. Check it out.

By: Erick

Erick — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:22:27 +0000

I run Orb. It does everything but the file storage but I dont need that. The streaming live tv to my Q is amazing.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:03:28 +0000

That’s pretty cool. It sounds like it has nothing to to with iTune. It runs on Windows & Windows Mobile, does not play iTune DRMed songs. The title should just say “Make Your Music Library Mobile”.

By: Taylor C.

Taylor C. — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:57:13 +0000

There is a site that has been doing this for a while its called MP3Tunes. I think its owned by the guy who started Linspire. I got a year of their service half off and i think it was worth it. THey let you back up unlimited files and stream them. I would assume that there would be legal trouble hasnt seemed to happen.

By: carmen

carmen — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:44:21 +0000

for all people like to complain about apple being closed, iTunes sharing is HTTP-based , fairly open, and supported by a lot of non-iTunes players, especially open-source ones. theres even a free clone of apples iTunes-song-server which works well..

with the mentions of storing files on Avanue’s servers, and the lack of support for DRM files nd only working on windows, leads me to believe theyre bypassing DAAP – theres no reason DAAP can’t work over the wider internet, the only real issue is share-discovery normally only works on the local subnets – easily fixed by advertising to a HTTP directory somewhere, and possibly involving some NAt-punching HTTP proxy if needed..

in other words, i expect simpler solutions to pop up – giving people full acces to their library from their cellphone/walkman. i mean its alreayd possible today if you can setup my-daapd and rhythmbox, but i mean for normal people..

By: Andy Atkinson

Andy Atkinson — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:56:23 +0000

When I first read the article headline in my RSS reader, I thought the article might be about storing your library externally. An author at Pain in the Tech just wrote about using Amazon S3 to store his iTunes library and a Mac client that facilitates upload. Check it out if interested. Does this mobile phone service work with storage provided by an S3 server instance?

By: PJ

PJ — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:28:23 +0000

I concur with prior users…ORB.com is the way to go. However, this interface looks nice and I am willing to give it a try.

By: Rémi

Rémi — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:27:08 +0000

I use Orb (Mycast now…). I don’t understand why people would use Avvenu’s product rather than Orb seeing how limited it is? I gave it a try, but really… it’s limited to your itunes library… it’s only music, and you can only share 250 songs that are stored on the server? Doesn’t make much sense to me… but maybe there’s something I didn’t see. If anybody knows, let me know. I didn’t like the previous version of Orb, you couldn’t customize anything and the navigation was a pain (no ajax, reloading page all the time). Sharing was crap too. V2 version’s much, much better. I stream all my music (no need for itunes), videos, photos and tv. And I can share all that stuff with no limitation (cannot share tv actually afaik). And works on more than just win mobile smarphones. Recently they released a new feature with different types of sharing (public/blogs/private). I started to use the public sharing (which isa personal page on public.orb.com that anybody can access)and this is what I use most now. However you get private sharing if you want to. Didn’t try the blog stuff, don’t have use for it so I don’t know. There are some glitches sometimes and the UI is not perfect, but I see that they update the web site with fixes and new stuff quite often, so it’s getting better. Anyway I’d be glad to hear the experience / feedbackof those who’ve used both and can compare the feature set.

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:25:03 +0000

Mik;

True… for those that have an iPod. For the other 1 billion people that have a cellular phone instead, I’d venture to say this is a better idea

Screw it, bring on the iPhone!

By: Ravi

Ravi — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:24:06 +0000

Umm…doesnt Orb.com do all this and more (except for the server-side storage, but how useful is that) ?

Just trying to figure out why I should install this bloatware instead.