It is no secret that iRadio Capture never quite worked the way that I had intended. Everything I tried was too unreliable: sometimes it would work extremely well, and the next day it would refuse to work at all. Also, I never liked having it in two different pieces; that increased its unreliability and made it more complicated for my users, neither of which I was happy about. I looked at all of this and realized that my current method was never going to work the way I wanted. So I took a step back to look at everything again. That is when inspiration came and slapped me across the face, hard. Thus, iLikeMusic was born.
I have been working on iLikeMusic for the past few days, and am proud to say that it is nearly ready for its maiden voyage, at least for Mac. I have not started the Windows version, but I expect it to follow the Mac version relatively quickly. As it stands right now, iLikeMusic is a standalone player that basically does everything iRadio Capture did, except better. Being that it stands entirely by itself, that also means that I can add many other features not possible under the iRadio Capture schema. This means:
I have been working on iLikeMusic for the past few days, and am proud to say that it is nearly ready for its maiden voyage, at least for Mac. I have not started the Windows version, but I expect it to follow the Mac version relatively quickly. As it stands right now, iLikeMusic is a standalone player that basically does everything iRadio Capture did, except better. Being that it stands entirely by itself, that also means that I can add many other features not possible under the iRadio Capture schema. This means:
- No more worrying about updating your browser, because it doesn't use one
- No more messing with the iRadio Art Grabber extension
- No more filling your download list with hundreds of picture files that aren't there
- It can theoretically work for ANY website, including the previously elusive Grooveshark
- It can use custom proxy settings if you are outside the US, so you do not slow down the rest of your browsing
- It can detect incompletely loaded songs (a problem with iRadio Capture 2.0)
- It can use the Mac's media keys to control playback
- Much more!
Expect to see the first version of iLikeMusic to hit A Programmer's Crucible some time in the near future, so check back often!
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