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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by cscott on Thursday May 21, 2009 @02:52PM (#620922)
Great story, and my favorite part was the link to the Slashdot iPod release story: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by raganwald on Thursday May 21, 2009 @01:53PM (#620818)
My response "back in the day:"

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2004/11/sharecropping-in-orchard...

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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by evdawg on Thursday May 21, 2009 @01:33PM (#620786)
Aaah! Audion... fond memories. I quite dislike iTunes and I'm sure many share this sentiment, I wish they had attempted to keep up and go head to head with iTunes instead of retiring the product.

If, today, they brought it up to 2009 standards, and added iPod support, I'd bet they could take a good chunk of iTunes' marketshare on the Mac!

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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by ellyagg on Thursday May 21, 2009 @04:03PM (#621044)
Yes, a lot of people share that sentiment, but a lot don't. iTunes popularized the notion of organizing your music around a central database of meta data, an approach that allowed for far more flexibility and ease of use. Of course, you always come across the folks who think organizing your music on your file system is genius. These people probably think unix is better than Plan 9, too.
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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by mrkurt on Thursday May 21, 2009 @06:03PM (#621186)
iTunes' biggest problem is that it doesn't even handle library management very well. :)
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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by mishmash on Thursday May 21, 2009 @01:52PM (#620815)
IIRC, iPod support was part of the problem, thanks to the DMCA and friends.
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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by randallsquared on Thursday May 21, 2009 @01:53PM (#620817)
Yeah, I'd love to use a nice modern MP3 player on my Mac, but I guess no one will be making one again.
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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by Tiktaalik on Thursday May 21, 2009 @05:52PM (#621168)
There's also Songbird http://getsongbird.com/ which though early and a bit bloaty has a interesting featureset over iTunes.
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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by jokermatt999 on Thursday May 21, 2009 @09:44PM (#621458)
Last I checked it was also rather buggy. As in, it messed up almost any time I attempted to add song to my library, couldn't handle songs or artists special characters, and the iPod support was iffy. I like the UI and addons, but it has a long way to go before being usable.
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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by look_lookatme on Thursday May 21, 2009 @03:53PM (#621027)
http://www.voxapp.net/

Current version lacks playlists, which makes it completely useless to me, but the developer says playlist support and folder scanning is on its way.

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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by evdawg on Thursday May 21, 2009 @04:21PM (#621067)
Thanks for the heads up on vox! It's definitely showing some promise. There is also http://cogx.org/, but it's very buggy and there hasn't been an update on the site in over a year :(
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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by Tiktaalik on Thursday May 21, 2009 @05:54PM (#621170)
Cog http://cogx.org/ is a nice reaaaaal simple MP3 player for OS X. I use it for whenever I want to just play one or two tracks from MP3 blogs without adding anything to my large, unwieldy, iTunes Library.
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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by shiranaihito on Friday May 22, 2009 @05:00AM (#621770)
All I want is FLAC support, and global hotkeys for more than just play, next and previous, but it looks like it's not going to happen.

It would be nice to have foobar2000 on the Mac, but that's not going to happen either.

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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by arthurk on Friday May 22, 2009 @07:06AM (#621839)
Did you try Fluke for FLAC playback? http://blowintopieces.com/fluke/ I know it's not native support but still better than nothing.
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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by shiranaihito on Sunday May 24, 2009 @07:35AM (#624300)
"Cog" and "Play" both do FLAC playback, but lack hotkeys and/or ReplayGain.

Fluke doesn't seem to offer any advantages over those.

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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by mishmash on Thursday May 21, 2009 @01:02PM (#620736)
This story truly must be one of the great Mac stories of all time, but it's ancient when judged against the "News" in Hacker News.
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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by wallflower on Thursday May 21, 2009 @01:40PM (#620797)
Reposted many times but it's one of the best stories that has been linked to on HN (has everything: Apple, Jobs, boot-strapping, cutthroat competition, highs/lows, enterpreneurial journeys)

Note: Click on the images. They're worth it.

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Re:Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product by jacobolus on Thursday May 21, 2009 @01:59PM (#620828)
This one and the "Graphing Calculator Story",

http://www.pacifict.com/Story/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567

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