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At the time there is no proper media center for Mac OS X. That’s the plain truth. iTunes pretends to be, but doesn’t support codecs like divx and the like. FrontRow on the other side is nice for playing content from iTunes and iPhoto, a movie on a DVD or content in your Movies folder, but I miss that one application that can play everything. And then I came across CenterStage. It is currently in alpha status, but I gave it a try and I must say that it IS a proper media center software. Here are some points from the developers roadmap:

0.6.2: Music improvements & General stability

• Enhancements to the Music section
• Make CS more stable
• Improvements to the core functionality, make a solid basis

0.6.3: Preferences & Subtitles

• Enhancements to prepare new UI implementation
• Preferences
• Subtitles
• On Screen Display enhancements

0.6.4: VLC

• Integrate the VLC Framework as playback engine

0.6.5: Bonjour support

• Bonjour support for BackStage
• Enhancements to BackStage
• More new UI

0.6.6: New UI

• New skin with final UI

Integrating the VLC framework seems a wonderful idea to me

Here is a demo video of CenterStage

Keep up the good work guys!

I’ve bought an 80Gb iPod today, to replace my PSP which I’ve sold on eBay Now I can sync my whole iTunes library and watch various movies with just one device.

I’ve installed the very new Ubuntu version on my other HDD the other day, and I must say that it’s just perfect out-of-the-box. I also installed the XGL/Compiz packages for superb 3D-Desktop enhancements. But I use Windows XP most of the time because of CounterStrike Source, Battlefield 2 and iTunes. I could live with playing CSS under Linux but I’m still waiting for Apple to release an iTunes Version for Linux systems, and I don’t think that it is a matter of programming difficulties but the lack of market. So here’s my call to Apple:

Please port iTunes to Linux! I’m in a desperate need for an application that corresponends with my iPod in an appropriate way!

One once said: “Linux is for working, Windows is for Solitaire” was right, because I switched from Windows to Linux once and didn’t miss anything, except those things we all hate about using Microsoft products.

I know that there are solutions for my problem, e.g. CrossOverOffice, but I want a more native solution.

Anyhow, I’ll try to bring iPodLinux to my iPod today

I didn’t find any class that was able to parse the XMLoutput file of iTunes into an array and that works with php5 at the same time, so i decided to code my own.

free for all: iTunesXMLParser