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iRATE radio 0.3 released
MichaelCrawford
Date:
February 10, 2004 @ 4:17 PM
5 February 2004 Perth, Western Australia
New Zealander Anthony Jones announced the third
minor release of the
iRATE radio
client today.
iRATE radio provides users with a powerful new
way to find and download free, legal music
online. Users rate tracks based on their tastes.
The iRATE server then selects other tracks to
send to the user from a database of over 50,000
freely downloadable songs by correlating the
user's ratings with other users and finding
people with similar tastes.
Unlike streaming audio, iRATE saves the tracks to
the user's hard drive. This means that playback
is smoother, without the typical problems
associated with streaming media, such as high
bandwidth usage.
iRATE radio is written in Java, and is available
for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Windows users can easily get up and running with
iRATE radio using Sun's Java Web Start and
Internet Explorer. For other browsers on Windows
and Linux, users may need to download and install
Java WebStart separately. There are also native
Debian, Mandrake, and Redhat Linux packages
available. Mac users will be pleased to hear that
a disk image (.DMG) file for OS X will be
released within a week.
This release features a new, more intuitive user
interface, a refined track selection algorithm,
and better download performance. Other
improvements include a new icon (following the
recent icon contest), tool tips, ID3 tag display,
artist's website link support, playlist
management, and many others.
Since the project's registration at SourceForge
in March 2003, iRATE radio has gathered an
increasing number of developers. The user base
now numbers over 8,000 individuals. However,
there is still a lot of work to be done. Jones
recently made an announcement to the development
mailing list detailing thirteen focus areas for
improvement. These included translations, native
playback (for improved decoding performance),
better server-side track selection, multimedia
key binding support, audio prompting, more
publicity, and several others.
The iRATE radio website is at
http://irate.sourceforge.net/
MickeyBreezy
Date:
February 10, 2004 @ 11:52 PM
i just realized that by callin it .03, that means
its not even the 1st version. (if it said that in
1 way or another in ur post my bad, 2 long 2 read
rite now.)
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