Mike Robertson’s new music app
p2pnet.net News:- With Microsoft still breathing down its neck, Michael Robertson’s Linspire is getting into the digital audio with its new Lsong application for playing and managing digital audio.
Robertson is no stranger to things audio having founded the late MP3.com, now owned by CNET which it says it’ll be re-launching with a new everything this spring.
Lsongs is a music manager that will play your CDs, MP3s, organize your music collection and stream Internet radio, and also brings “cross media format support to Linux by playing MP3, Ogg, Windows Media, QuickTime and Real media, ensuring that Linux users can play the most popular formats they might encounter on the Internet,” says Robertson here.
He’s also offering a photo app called Lphoto, “that makes it easy to work with digital photos on Linux”.
April 26th, 2004 at 2:02 am
Lindows new apps Lsongs and Lphoto look like quality programs which Linux needs. Nobody has done more in the last 2 years for Desktop Linux then these guys.
They just had their annual conference and it was well attended and I heard they had filed their S1 to go public.
April 26th, 2004 at 5:12 am
Wow, I like what Linspire is doing a lot doe desktop linux, but… um, except for the fact they charge for free software, but by the look of these 2 apps, all these guys have done is ripped off the interfaces from Apple’s iTunes and iPhoto and called it a Linux application. Will love to see the battle over this one.
Nice of them to make iTunes and iPhoto available for linux (they open sourced the code). I’m assuming it’ll work with other flavors of linix besides Lispire.
But is this really what innovation has come to? Ripping off someone else’s work and then charging cut-rate for it ? Hard to be supportive for cut-rate rip-off artists.
April 27th, 2004 at 12:21 am
The only thing they ripped off is the look of the interface. Is that really a big deal? A lot of the GUI work done for Linux looks like windows GUIs. Does that make the authors of the software “cut-rate rip-off artists”?