Beatport’s new Adobe AIR download manager helps organize your music (See, it’s not always about music piracy)
- April 29th, 2008
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Lest you all think I’m a nefarious, profit-hating music pirate , I bring word of Beatport’s latest innovation in online music distribution. The music site has developed an Adobe AIR download client that brings the fun of clicking “download now” from your Web browser to a stand-alone program. (If you use twhirl, and follow our sorry lot on Twitter , then you already have AIR installed.) Aside from allowing you to change the downloaded songs’ file-naming conventions (who doesn’t just re-tag everything in iTunes anyway?), there doesn’t seem to be any real advantage to using the new AIR downloader other than novelty. But what a novelty!
Adobe AIR is sorta what Java was supposed to be, a multi-platform development language. Something like that.
I just bought Couture’s “Afterglow (Tom Neville’s At Your Feet Vocal)” and everything went smoothly, aside for that fact that it cost $1.50 and no one in America listens to progressive house.
Look what I do now, buy music.
i love beatport!
and progressive house! (though i prefer chillout/ ambient stuff)
bring back sasha & digweed & reopen twilo - i’ll see you there!
You aren’t very intuitive are you? The main reason for the downloader is the ability to queue up several downloads at once, so they will all download consecutively, allowing you to run off and do something else. If you download exclusively through the browser you can only download 3 at a time, and then you have to click each one and wait for one to finish to start a new one. It’s a big pain for some DJ’s that might be downloading 20 tracks at a time. The downloader eases that, and is widely used by the people that know what it’s for.
have you found a good twitter client for winmo?
@ GI Joe:
I saw Sahsa and Digweed in Seattle last week, and it was pure CRAP. They couldn’t have been more boring, unenergetic doldrums than that performance. No builds, breaks, tension, or good beats minus once, which once they realized the crowd was really DANCING (not just dancing) they promptly cut it. Only reason I went to see them is after my 15 years of dj’ing I decided to check them out. I want my $35 back.
@ Nate:
You’re totally right — I’m stoked they fixed the 3 at a time issue, I just hope it works for Mac as I haven’t tried it out yet.
@ Nick:
Yes, people do listen to progressive house, but only the good stuff. Come by my DJ nights in Seattle and I’ll buy you a drink. Or are you one of the NY crew?