Like many web-savvy music fans, I’ve been using Last.fm for the past couple of years. Now there’s a project, Libre.fm, which aims to bring the types of service last.fm offers into the world of Free Network Services.
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Via Engadget via OStatic via BoingBoing comes news that Rockbox 3.0 has been released.
I first started using Rockbox Rockbox years ago because I had an Archos Jukebox Recorder, which was an early, 2.5″ hard-drive based MP3 player/recorder, which was only hampered by its anemic software.
When I later migrated to an iPod Nano, I loved the hardware but was not happy with the Apple software. Having used the Archos, I was used to just being able to drag audio files on and off the device, mounting it via USB as an external drive, with a normal file system. This meant I could synch the files I was listening to between my home PC running Linux, my work PC running Windows (their choice, not mine), or (later) my Mac OS X laptop, all without having to worry about DRM.
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Last week, at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I moderated a panel on Open Source Platforms.
The panelists were:
Although the conference doesn’t audio tape or videotape the breakout sessions in the smaller rooms – only the keynote – they were nice enough to allow us to record the panel’s audio.
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