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Songbird 1.2 Released

The Open Source Itunes killer, Songbird has just had an update.  Along with Foobar2000 it is probably the best free music player available. New Features Automatically Organise Library Files Songbird can now automatically organise the files that are contained in your library. Once enabled, it will consolidate your media in one location. You can customise the structure of [...]

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Boxee Update: Mac, Pandora, Hulu and Radiotime.

The Open Source XBMC fork; Boxee, has been going from strength to strength adding some new "most requested" features and also managing to get Hulu into the front end thanks to a unique legal workaround.  The new version is currently only for Mac platforms at this stage with Windows and Linux soon to follow. Download boxee [...]

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PS3 Media Server

Until recently, using the PS3 as a HTPC device was a tedious and almost pointless affair.  Installing Linux was a possibility though restricting direct access to the PS3’s RSX GPU pretty much reduced the benefit of using a PS3 in this way. Using software like TVersity was the closest you could get in turning the Playstation [...]

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XBMC MEDIA CENTER

In our second Sourced article the spotlight is on the award winning XBMC Media Center. What is XBMC? Originally named Xbox Media Center, XBMC is now a full featured, award winning free and open source software media-player and entertainment hub for all your digital media.  I have been using XBMC since it's transformation from xbmp (Xbox Media [...]

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