1 year of development - an update
News is rather slow, but so is testing and development. After looking through a few posts today, I felt that I might be able to post a few code changes and see if it improved certain aspects of the program; however, certain issues are bound to remain in the program.
Note - this updated version is experimental and not really developer tested. I would greatly appreciate others input…
(1) Often reported by people is the fact that they can’t see the list of shares in ourTunes.
+If you have a firewall enabled, then allow inbound/outbound to the programs java and javaw! ourTunes is useless without its networking components!
+However, some users were still having problems. I lengthened the time it takes for an share to report to the GUI; this is to prevent thread interference.
(2) This was a feature request from nearly 3 months ago, but wav and midi files are now supported. (As a note, ourTunes doesn’t recognize the extension “mid” - it must be “midi”)
(3) ourTunes switched JmDNS libraries to version 2.0 - The behavior changed somewhat from the previous verison of the library causing the word “Tunnel” to appear in iTunes instead of the library name. This makes it easier to find the mirror, but it’s accidental.
(4) ourTunes no longer shares port 3689 with iTunes; this was done in the hopes that ourTunes and iTunes would play nicer on OS X, but I don’t have access to a mac for quite some time. I’m hoping OS X users would be able to test this proposition…
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Lastly, I’ve read news here and there about Wine on Linux. With Wine, a linux user is now capable of using iTunes on his machine. The good news is that ourTunes can run on the Wine platform; the bad news: A Linux user needs to write an appropriate class that implements ourtunes.os.OS (source code and documentation are inside the file), and then pass me the result of the call System.getProperty(”os.name”).
In future update, I intend to linkify the hyperlinks in the about panel, so please include in the implementation the following method (appropriately, it should launch the web browser and go to the page specified by the URL):
public void launchHyperlink(URL address); //don’t assume firefox is the default web browser on the OS!
Link here: http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/mroth/tunes/ourTunes1-7f.jar
July 28th, 2008 15:11
Hi, I downloaded the 1.7f and tried to use it according to the instructions in the about section of the program. When I click on the “duplicate” in itunes, which the program names “tunnel”, it will not connect and just sends me back to my own library. I have itunes version 7.7(43), at least that’s what it says in the about section of program. If you have tips on how to make it work, please let me know, otherwise, at least you know it doesn’t work. PS, it’s a Macbook.
August 5th, 2008 09:49
[…] Ourtunes Update, version 1.7f [« Extend The Life of Your iTunes Movie Rentals to 30 days!] Tags: shared Added On: 5th Aug 08 Links: [download] This is the latest version of ourtunes a software that allows a person to download songs from itunes shares. Released on July the 23rd, it includes some bug fixes and some new features such as added support for midi and wav files. Also it no longer shares port 3689 with itunes in hopes that it will play nicer with itunes on OS X. The developer calls this an, “experimental release” so it probably still has many bugs. For a complete list of changes visit the developer’s site. […]
September 14th, 2008 08:23
Hello,
I was a developer for getTunes, a software that pretty much did what ourTunes does until iTunes 7 spoiled the fun
I’d like to say that the software is a very cleaver solution to the conundrum of the new streaming system Apple implemented. Ingenious in fact!
Keep up the awesome work you’re doing, and I’m looking forward to help out with the code in the near future (esp the OSX side of things. I’m still getting corrupt end of file problems. Fortunately iTunes 8 hasn’t broken the app yet).
Tan
October 6th, 2008 19:46
I just downloaded this program on to my new mac os x Leopard and it works great and sounds great but I have one problem. When the program starts to copy the song it only copies about 30 seconds of the song then goes on to the next song. I tried messing with the program but i dont know anything about it. I was wondering if I’m doing something wrong or if this is a problem with the program.
October 6th, 2008 19:53
I just downloaded ourtunes on my new mac os x Leopard and everything works great and sounds great but i have one problem. When i start copying the songs, it only copies 30 seconds of a song then goes to the next song and etc. i was wondering if this is the programs problem or am I just doing something wrong.
October 6th, 2008 20:53
So I was thinking about how you could improve ourtunes. If you haven’t heard of audio hijack pro for the mac. I think you should look into that program. If you dont know what it is, its a program that lets you hijack other programs and you can adjust the audio to that hijacked program, and even record the audio from the hijacked programed. I dont know if that would help ourtunes at all. I would think you would have to do some major changes to ourtunes but its just a suggestion. I hoped I helped.