Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product

http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

by amilr • 17 years ago

56 18 17 years ago

mishmash2• 17 years ago

This story truly must be one of the great Mac stories of all time, but it's ancient when judged against the "News" in Hacker News.

wallflower• 17 years ago

Reposted many times but it's one of the best stories that has been linked to on HN (has everything: Apple, Jobs, boot-strapping, cutthroat competition, highs/lows, enterpreneurial journeys)

Note: Click on the images. They're worth it.

jacobolus• 17 years ago

This one and the "Graphing Calculator Story",

http://www.pacifict.com/Story/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567

evdawg2• 17 years ago

Aaah! Audion... fond memories. I quite dislike iTunes and I'm sure many share this sentiment, I wish they had attempted to keep up and go head to head with iTunes instead of retiring the product.

If, today, they brought it up to 2009 standards, and added iPod support, I'd bet they could take a good chunk of iTunes' marketshare on the Mac!

mishmash2• 17 years ago

IIRC, iPod support was part of the problem, thanks to the DMCA and friends.

randallsquared• 17 years ago

Yeah, I'd love to use a nice modern MP3 player on my Mac, but I guess no one will be making one again.

look_lookatme• 17 years ago

http://www.voxapp.net/

Current version lacks playlists, which makes it completely useless to me, but the developer says playlist support and folder scanning is on its way.

Tiktaalik2• 17 years ago

There's also Songbird http://getsongbird.com/ which though early and a bit bloaty has a interesting featureset over iTunes.

Tiktaalik2• 17 years ago

Cog http://cogx.org/ is a nice reaaaaal simple MP3 player for OS X. I use it for whenever I want to just play one or two tracks from MP3 blogs without adding anything to my large, unwieldy, iTunes Library.

shiranaihito2• 17 years ago

All I want is FLAC support, and global hotkeys for more than just play, next and previous, but it looks like it's not going to happen.

It would be nice to have foobar2000 on the Mac, but that's not going to happen either.

ellyagg• 17 years ago

Yes, a lot of people share that sentiment, but a lot don't. iTunes popularized the notion of organizing your music around a central database of meta data, an approach that allowed for far more flexibility and ease of use. Of course, you always come across the folks who think organizing your music on your file system is genius. These people probably think unix is better than Plan 9, too.

mrkurt• 17 years ago

iTunes' biggest problem is that it doesn't even handle library management very well. :)

raganwald• 17 years ago

My response "back in the day:"

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2004/11/sharecropping-in-orchard...

cscott• 17 years ago

Great story, and my favorite part was the link to the Slashdot iPod release story: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product

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