MP3 Sushi 1.5 review
DownloadMP3 Sushi allows any Mac to be turned into a network Jukebox or Radio broadcast station.
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MP3 Sushi allows any Mac to be turned into a network Jukebox or Radio broadcast station.
MP3 Sushi is a port of Open Source software - gnump3d, Lame, libmp3lame, iceS and icecast - wrapped with a beautiful user interface.
MP3 Sushi is a cool way to share and stream music amongst a local network or the Internet.
MP3 Sushi is a set of two applications: MP3 Sushi Server and MP3 Buddies.
MP3 Sushi Server allows you to turn your Mac into a Jukebox or a Radio broadcast station in a few clicks. It's a cool way to share and stream your music among a local network or the Internet.
Thanks to the Rendezvous technology (aka ZeroConf), MP3 Buddies makes it easy to find every Jukebox and Radio servers on your local network. Once MP3 Buddies is launched on a user computer, a list of servers is displayed and in just one click the user can browse the Jukebox songs in his favorite navigator or listen to the Radio in iTunes.
Here are some key features of "MP3 Sushi":
Mac OS X only - MP3 Sushi makes great use of Mac OS X Unix foundations and cool new features such as: Rendezvous, Toolbars, Sheets, Extra Menu, Dock Menu, User Defaults... It's written entirely in Cocoa using Objective-C.
Easy to install - There is nothing to install - it works "out of the box"...drag and drop MP3 Sushi folder then click on the 'Start' buttons if you don't believe me!
Easy to setup - The preferences have been optimized to let you have a powerful Radio and Jukebox server running in just a few clicks! MP3 Sushi handles every config files for you!
Uses Rendezvous - So you don't need to communicate the server URLs to the listeners on your local network.
Open-source - Uses reliable open-source software such as gnump3d & Lame (Jukebox), icecast & ices (Radio). Also, the source code of MP3 Sushi is freely available.
Auto-launch at boot - If you have Administrator privileges, you can launch MP3 Sushi at boot time, without the need of a user session. MP3 Sushi uses daemons in the background.
Security - You can set up who can or can't access the Radio and Jukebox. You can even setup a password to restrict access to your Jukebox.
Downstreaming - you can choose the bitrate of the files you stream, both for the Radio and Jukebox.
Localizations - MP3 Sushi is available in English, French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
What's New:
[FIX] Added support for Panther (Mac OS X 10.3): the Radio now works properly
[MODIF] Updated the Jukebox component (gnump3d 2.6)
[NEW] The songs can be searched via the Jukebox Web interface
[NEW] New themes for the Jukebox Web interface
[FIX] The "Check Version Update" feature works again
[MODIF] Display the name of the server instead of its IP.
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