[Quinn]

Mack, on 23 February 2012 - 09:09 AM, said:

I don't know how legal it is, but I personally use Grooveshark. I've got the VIP one for $3/month, and it's essentially the same as Spotify. It has an iPhone app, and you can download songs for offline use.

I prefer Spotify because if I recall correctly, Grooveshark is only web-based and has now standalone client. I like that about Spotify.

[Kyek]

Grooveshark has apps around, but after using it for awhile, Spotify was definitely my preference. Grooveshark has user-uploaded content, so not only do you find 50 of the same song sometimes, you often run into bad quality tracks with -- as of the last time I used it -- no discernable way to see the quality before you play it. Uncommon/unpopular music is hard to find there sometimes, throughput can be spotty occasionally, and the apps for it lack a level of polish. On iOS, the Grooveshark app is only on Cydia, so to use it on an iPhone, you always have to be jailbroken. With that, plus the fact that Grooveshark is in near-constant legal battles that threaten its existence every day, Spotify makes more sense for me right now.

Also, you can't be sued if you add music to Spotify xD

[Mack]

Kyek, on 23 February 2012 - 12:35 PM, said:

Grooveshark has apps around, but after using it for awhile, Spotify was definitely my preference. Grooveshark has user-uploaded content, so not only do you find 50 of the same song sometimes, you often run into bad quality tracks with -- as of the last time I used it -- no discernable way to see the quality before you play it. Uncommon/unpopular music is hard to find there sometimes, throughput can be spotty occasionally, and the apps for it lack a level of polish. On iOS, the Grooveshark app is only on Cydia, so to use it on an iPhone, you always have to be jailbroken. With that, plus the fact that Grooveshark is in near-constant legal battles that threaten its existence every day, Spotify makes more sense for me right now.

Also, you can't be sued if you add music to Spotify xD

I prefer Spotify too, but since I'm grandfathered in Grooveshark is only $3/month. While currently they're the same price if you had to chose which to signup for, it's not worth an extra $7/month to switch to Spotify to me.

Also, I love the Grooveshark iPhone app. It lets your either use playlists like most music players, or a queue. I love the idea of using a music queue instead of playlists personally. It's like creating a temporary playlist every time you listen to music, so you can queue up songs in whatever order you want. And then if you like it, you can save it as a playlist. Plus there's an option to have a pandora like radio station based on the queue, and it adds songs when you get to the end of the queue.

[Kyek]

The queue is super nice. The Spotify desktop app has that, but unfortunately not iOS. Boo!

[Nico]

OS X:

PS3 Media Server - Streams pretty much any video to PS3.
jDownloader - Excellent download manager.
FileShuttle - Kinda like Cloud app but using your own server.

Other apps I use have either been mentioned or a dev apps.

[Kyek]

Ooo... FileShuttle could potentially kill Captured for me. That's worth looking into -- thanks for the share

[gibbonweb]

Kyek, on 05 March 2012 - 12:01 PM, said:

Ooo... FileShuttle could potentially kill Captured for me. That's worth looking into -- thanks for the share

FileShuttle is cool, but I've switched to Dropzone... more parallel configurations, better feedback of what it's doing, a few nice additional features.
I'm not using Dropzone 2 (App Store) but Dropzone 0.6 (free now? I bought the license in a Bundle Sale ~a year ago - http://aptonic.com/support.php) and it does everything I need.

[TheEmpty]

Thanks for Spotify, haven't bothered to use premium yet. Seems their iOS version doesn't delete files when you remove them.

[TheEmpty]

Sparrow for iPhone: http://www.sprw.me/comingsoon/

[arronhunt]

Yay it's been at 80% for over a month, glad to see its progressing

[Hyde]

Awesome, but the Mail.app is quite good on IOS. I doubt I will replace it.

[@Tom]

arronhunt, on 11 March 2012 - 02:04 PM, said:

Yay it's been at 80% for over a month, glad to see its progressing

95% now

[Mack]

Well now it's out apparently, for $2.99. I was never a fan of the Mac app, and I have to say based on the screenshots I'm not impressed with the iOS version either. It seems like the iOS Facebook client's UX, with the sliding on messages part from most Twitter clients

[TheEmpty]

Mack, on 14 March 2012 - 09:35 PM, said:

Well now it's out apparently, for $2.99. I was never a fan of the Mac app, and I have to say based on the screenshots I'm not impressed with the iOS version either. It seems like the iOS Facebook client's UX, with the sliding on messages part from most Twitter clients

Not on the US stores right click get URL please!

[arronhunt]

ThatRailsGuy, on 14 March 2012 - 09:53 PM, said:

Not on the US stores right click get URL please!

Direct Link: http://itunes.apple....d492573565?mt=8
Website: http://sparrowapp.com/iphone.php

Edit: Ugh why the hell did they chose that icon? That is my least favorite one in the list of potential icons.

Edit 2: Damnit, no push notifications. Honestly that renders it kind of useless for me. I know it's Apple's fault for locking down their APIs but still

[_Sam]

Kyek, on 13 February 2012 - 12:11 PM, said:

Qouch: A combined SABnzbd, Couchpotato, and Sickbeard client. If you don't know what those things are, you don't need this app. If you do, it's friggin GREAT.

Thanks for the suggestion, I finally came around to set that stuff up, looks quite promising. I haven't seen it in action tho.
It was quite a mess to install that stuff for me as non mac user. I mean you download something and open it, but it opens on some other screen for some reason. Some tools you just drag the icon around and it's installed somehow, some I don't know they just start, do I have to move that folder around? and then there are these that you have to install and run through console, good that I have experience with Linux or I would have been lost.
btw. Does anyone happen to know: Is it possible to use a normal(windows) keyboard on a Mac? As I connect through VNC to it, but doesn't seem to recognize the Keyboard correctly, at least not the special signs.

[Lemon]

Another app I have found in the meantime: Cobook. It puts your address book up in your menu bar and also pulls in Facebook profiles and images for all the contacts it can find them for, so everyone gets their profile pic as their contact pic and these are then synced via iCloud to your iOS devices etc. I do find I need to go back to Address Book for some things, but for the most part it has replaced it completely. It is Beta software still though, so backup your address book first.

[Mack]

gibbonweb, on 05 March 2012 - 12:08 PM, said:

FileShuttle is cool, but I've switched to Dropzone... more parallel configurations, better feedback of what it's doing, a few nice additional features.
I'm not using Dropzone 2 (App Store) but Dropzone 0.6 (free now? I bought the license in a Bundle Sale ~a year ago - http://aptonic.com/support.php) and it does everything I need.

Just a heads up, if anyone wants to buy Dropzone 2, it's on sale right now for 85% off.

[Mack]

Kyek, on 24 February 2012 - 06:14 AM, said:

The queue is super nice. The Spotify desktop app has that, but unfortunately not iOS. Boo!

Old thread/reply, but iTunes just added the queue thing now Now they have a feature called "Up Next" which lets you pick the songs to play without having to create a playlist. And then once that's over, it can resume whatever the previous setting was, as in shuffle/a playlist/your library.

[Lemon]

Mack, on 29 November 2012 - 07:38 PM, said:

Old thread/reply, but iTunes just added the queue thing now Now they have a feature called "Up Next" which lets you pick the songs to play without having to create a playlist. And then once that's over, it can resume whatever the previous setting was, as in shuffle/a playlist/your library.

I'm really liking the iTunes update, although I've set it to have the proper sidebar back again. Speed improvements are obvious everywhere, even with just reacting to media keys etc. Unfortunately, their new icon is pretty grim, so a tactical change back was in order (or this icon set by the previous designer of the iTunes 10 icon).

Also, anyone know what all the little iCloud icons represent? I don't have iTunes match, so I'm a bit puzzled.