Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product(panic.com)

56 pointsby amilr17 tahun yang lalu18 comments

Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product

http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

18 comments

cscott17 tahun yang lalu

Great story, and my favorite part was the link to the Slashdot iPod release story: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

raganwald17 tahun yang lalu

My response "back in the day:"

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

evdawg17 tahun yang lalu

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!

ellyagg17 tahun yang lalu

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.

mrkurt17 tahun yang lalu

iTunes' biggest problem is that it doesn't even handle library management very well. :)

mishmash17 tahun yang lalu

IIRC, iPod support was part of the problem, thanks to the DMCA and friends.

randallsquared17 tahun yang lalu

Yeah, I'd love to use a nice modern MP3 player on my Mac, but I guess no one will be making one again.

Tiktaalik17 tahun yang lalu

There's also Songbird http://getsongbird.com/ which though early and a bit bloaty has a interesting featureset over iTunes.

jokermatt99917 tahun yang lalu

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.

look_lookatme17 tahun yang lalu

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.

evdawg17 tahun yang lalu

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 :(

Tiktaalik17 tahun yang lalu

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.

shiranaihito17 tahun yang lalu

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.

arthurk17 tahun yang lalu

Did you try Fluke for FLAC playback? http://blowintopieces.com/fluke/ I know it's not native support but still better than nothing.

shiranaihito17 tahun yang lalu

"Cog" and "Play" both do FLAC playback, but lack hotkeys and/or ReplayGain.

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

mishmash17 tahun yang lalu

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.

wallflower17 tahun yang lalu

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.

jacobolus17 tahun yang lalu

This one and the "Graphing Calculator Story",

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

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