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Link: Dot-Pod v0.9b18 Released - \"The ultimate iPod webserver\" makes sharing a snap
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I have gotten it to work as described. It has a nice little interface on the web side, and works well.
I think it would be much more useful if you could put files on your hd on the server not just off of an iPod. iPod is a portable device, portable and web-server do not too much sense.
Interesting idea though
nacl99
I have gotten it to work as described. It has a nice little interface on the web side, and works well.
I think it would be much more useful if you could put files on your hd on the server not just off of an iPod. iPod is a portable device, portable and web-server do not too much sense.
Interesting idea though
nacl99
DOT-POD Developer Note:
Hi all,
Great to see the tremendous interest in DOT-POD after only few days since the first release.
JonasLoaf, I'm sorry to hear you are having troubles you might like to try the latest release at http://www.dotpod.net/DOT-POD0.9b21.sit
Please let me know if you are still having troubles - we are a very friendly bunch here and will do everything we can to get you up and running. You might like to email me at team@dotpod.net and I'll let you know how to turn on DOT-POD debugging and we'll track down the error if you like
Nacl99, nice feedback thanks. Perhaps we could have a 'Publish' folder in the DOT-POD folder and any files or folders you put in there will also be published. Does this sound like what you had in mind? If so just let us know and we'll get to work and add the feature.
oldschool, here is an example of DOT-POD in action: Let's say you've created some original music in GarageBand and you want to make it available to your clients, or friends and family. You can't really email huge files to all your friends - the easy way is to copy them to your iPod and use DOT-POD to make them available on the web from your iPod so that your, clients, friends and family can download them from their web browser.
sjk, you know what it's all about
Expect to see regular updates and additional applications such as DOT-POD Client (about to be released) - This application allows streaming of multiple songs from a DOT-POD Server, without having to keep clicking a link in the web browser to play each track. iTunes Music Library support is almost complete - Publish your tracks from your iPod and iTunes.
Thanks for the support and Enjoy
Jeff
DOT-POD
http://www.dotpod.net/
Hi all,
Great to see the tremendous interest in DOT-POD after only few days since the first release.
JonasLoaf, I'm sorry to hear you are having troubles you might like to try the latest release at http://www.dotpod.net/DOT-POD0.9b21.sit
Please let me know if you are still having troubles - we are a very friendly bunch here and will do everything we can to get you up and running. You might like to email me at team@dotpod.net and I'll let you know how to turn on DOT-POD debugging and we'll track down the error if you like
Nacl99, nice feedback thanks. Perhaps we could have a 'Publish' folder in the DOT-POD folder and any files or folders you put in there will also be published. Does this sound like what you had in mind? If so just let us know and we'll get to work and add the feature.
oldschool, here is an example of DOT-POD in action: Let's say you've created some original music in GarageBand and you want to make it available to your clients, or friends and family. You can't really email huge files to all your friends - the easy way is to copy them to your iPod and use DOT-POD to make them available on the web from your iPod so that your, clients, friends and family can download them from their web browser.
sjk, you know what it's all about
Expect to see regular updates and additional applications such as DOT-POD Client (about to be released) - This application allows streaming of multiple songs from a DOT-POD Server, without having to keep clicking a link in the web browser to play each track. iTunes Music Library support is almost complete - Publish your tracks from your iPod and iTunes.
Thanks for the support and Enjoy
Jeff
DOT-POD
http://www.dotpod.net/
I haven't looked at dotpod yet, but how is this different in not upsetting apple like the iCommune plugin that enabled users to share songs via iTunes over the internet. Is the checkbox option to not publish on the web the main difference regarding copyright issues?
DOT-POD Developer Note:
Hi Santaduck,
There are a number of areas where DOT-POD differs from iCommune.
Firstly, DOT-POD doesn't interfere or interact with any Apple software. Because an iPod is basically a little hard drive, DOT-POD simply access these files in the same way Apache or any other web server access files.
With products like GarageBand - where you can only save/export a track into iTunes - it is safe to say that many professional and amateur musicians have many of their own compositions stored on their iPod and in their iTunes music Library.
No one can tell Apache not to distribute their web server software just incase someone uses it to publish copyright material. It is outside Apache's control to monitor the use of it's software and take on the responsibility for it's users actions - It just doesn't work like that.
This is how it works. If iCommune or any other product modifies the regular operation of a Third party's software or is knowingly involved in the process of sharing copyright music then they may be liable. Companies running these large file sharing networks are sitting in the middle of their users distributing IP addresses to allow searching and sharing between remote users.
DOT-POD doesn't work like this. The only way to connect to a DOT-POD Server is if you have been given a URL and have an optional username and password. When DOT-POD launches, we are not notified. We do not know the IP address of any DOT-POD Servers!
Infact, as this is the MacRumors site .... we are just about to release DOT-TUNES! The world's first dedicated iTunes web server. Identical to DOT-POD but now you can share YOUR OWN COPYRIGHT MUSIC from your iTunes library. Please email team@dotpod.net if you would like to participate in pre-release testing.
Best regards to all,
Jeff
DOT-POD
http://www.dotpod.net/
Hi Santaduck,
There are a number of areas where DOT-POD differs from iCommune.
Firstly, DOT-POD doesn't interfere or interact with any Apple software. Because an iPod is basically a little hard drive, DOT-POD simply access these files in the same way Apache or any other web server access files.
With products like GarageBand - where you can only save/export a track into iTunes - it is safe to say that many professional and amateur musicians have many of their own compositions stored on their iPod and in their iTunes music Library.
No one can tell Apache not to distribute their web server software just incase someone uses it to publish copyright material. It is outside Apache's control to monitor the use of it's software and take on the responsibility for it's users actions - It just doesn't work like that.
This is how it works. If iCommune or any other product modifies the regular operation of a Third party's software or is knowingly involved in the process of sharing copyright music then they may be liable. Companies running these large file sharing networks are sitting in the middle of their users distributing IP addresses to allow searching and sharing between remote users.
DOT-POD doesn't work like this. The only way to connect to a DOT-POD Server is if you have been given a URL and have an optional username and password. When DOT-POD launches, we are not notified. We do not know the IP address of any DOT-POD Servers!
Infact, as this is the MacRumors site .... we are just about to release DOT-TUNES! The world's first dedicated iTunes web server. Identical to DOT-POD but now you can share YOUR OWN COPYRIGHT MUSIC from your iTunes library. Please email team@dotpod.net if you would like to participate in pre-release testing.
Best regards to all,
Jeff
DOT-POD
http://www.dotpod.net/
i totally understand how dotpod works, i just don't see a real point for it. its not that hard to put the few files you have to share into your sites folder. thirty dollars to bypass setting up the server seems a little steep.
also once registered you have the option of sharing your entire ipod library. i doubt there is anybody with all personal creations on their ipod.
thats what i meant by my statement "what's the point of this?"
also once registered you have the option of sharing your entire ipod library. i doubt there is anybody with all personal creations on their ipod.
thats what i meant by my statement "what's the point of this?"
thanks for the explanation, that was interesting.
the sheer convenience-factor is interesting, making web publishing a very easy thing, esp. for those who don't know how.
It's always interesting to see more focused uses for the iPod, I'd be curious to see if there is a large existing user base in the music-producton world for this application... given the growing ubiquity of the ipods (and Garage Band's zeitgeist-placement of: 'music-production-to-the-people'), it sounds reasonable. Good luck!
the sheer convenience-factor is interesting, making web publishing a very easy thing, esp. for those who don't know how.
It's always interesting to see more focused uses for the iPod, I'd be curious to see if there is a large existing user base in the music-producton world for this application... given the growing ubiquity of the ipods (and Garage Band's zeitgeist-placement of: 'music-production-to-the-people'), it sounds reasonable. Good luck!
Isn't this illegal?
Isn't this illegal, since it gives eveyone a copy of a song that you only have the right to for youreself.....
If it is, it's only a matter of time before Apple comes and shuts you down, just like they did with FairPlay......
Don't you guys feel the slightest bit of guilt STEALING these songs....The user who downloaded them has the rights, but sharing them for free is illegal!
Isn't this illegal, since it gives eveyone a copy of a song that you only have the right to for youreself.....
If it is, it's only a matter of time before Apple comes and shuts you down, just like they did with FairPlay......
Don't you guys feel the slightest bit of guilt STEALING these songs....The user who downloaded them has the rights, but sharing them for free is illegal!
AppleJustWorks said:
I hope you are joking. This is clearly designed for you to distribute songs which you OWN the copyright to, not songs you are LICENSED to use (as in a ripped commercial CD).
DOT-POD Developer Note:
Hi all,
oldschool, I am sure that most web servers world wide contain copyright material somewhere on the computer but it's up to each user not to publish copyright material. It would be just as illegal to use OSX Web-Sharing or Apache to publish copyright material. Also it's not really as easy as you may think for the average musician to publish their tracks via Web-Sharing. Just because you and I know how to create html pages with links to tracks, create formatted tables to professionally present the work, enable authentication to only allow certain people to download and create a database to allow fast searching - doesn't mean the average musician can do all this....If it was easy then the DOT-POD download figures and registrations would be nowhere near as high as they are. Checkout the downloads on MacUpdate, VersionTracker and Download.com and you'll see that for the non IT minded - DOT-POD is awesome!
Sure, DOT-POD can publish a musicians entire iPod as Apache can publish an entire hard drive. Where does the responsibility of the user come into this debate. Can we not sell Web-Servers, CD burners, Knives, cars, mobile phones with cameras and sound recorders, cameras or movie cameras ... just incase a criminal uses them? If an illegal adult web site is published using Apache, how responsible are the Apache developers? I say 'they are not responsible at all' what do you think?
Santaduck, I can assure you, there is a huge base of professional and amateur musicians using iTunes and the iPod. I haven't revealed this to the group yet - but we are actually professional musicians with currently more than 600 original musical works being broadcast around the globe. We have been using iPods for around 2 years now to transport our own original music to and from the studio. Now we just broadcast it to each other using DOT-POD. And my iPod currently has 0 songs which below to other composers.
Now, AppleJustWorks ... I hope that my explanations above have helped. Can you see any reason why I am breaking the law? Gosh, I don't even have any other peoples music on my iPod. If I have a CD burner would you assume I use it to copy other peoples work? If I have a tape recorder do you wonder if I take it into concerts and record their music? Do I take my video recorder into movies and pirate their work? Even rope is illegal if you use it to strangle someone.
The way the law works is that you are innocent until you break the law. Simple. DOT-POD isn't illegal just because it exists or if I use it to publish my own work. But if I use DOT-POD, Web-Sharing, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, or any other web server to publish copyright material then I would be breaking the law.
Music software which has been in the spotlight recently regarding copyright infringements is due to 1 of 2 reasons.
1) The software affects the operation of someone else's software (ie iTunes/Apple and various plugins developed to open up sharing - DOT-POD does not interfere or interact with any Apple software)
2) The software developer is involved in the process of copyright infringement (like these large file sharing networks - where the developer sits in the middle sharing IP address to facilitate connection of remote users - DOT-POD doesn't work like this either)
I hope this helps
Happy Easter
Jeff
DOT-POD
Hi all,
oldschool, I am sure that most web servers world wide contain copyright material somewhere on the computer but it's up to each user not to publish copyright material. It would be just as illegal to use OSX Web-Sharing or Apache to publish copyright material. Also it's not really as easy as you may think for the average musician to publish their tracks via Web-Sharing. Just because you and I know how to create html pages with links to tracks, create formatted tables to professionally present the work, enable authentication to only allow certain people to download and create a database to allow fast searching - doesn't mean the average musician can do all this....If it was easy then the DOT-POD download figures and registrations would be nowhere near as high as they are. Checkout the downloads on MacUpdate, VersionTracker and Download.com and you'll see that for the non IT minded - DOT-POD is awesome!
Sure, DOT-POD can publish a musicians entire iPod as Apache can publish an entire hard drive. Where does the responsibility of the user come into this debate. Can we not sell Web-Servers, CD burners, Knives, cars, mobile phones with cameras and sound recorders, cameras or movie cameras ... just incase a criminal uses them? If an illegal adult web site is published using Apache, how responsible are the Apache developers? I say 'they are not responsible at all' what do you think?
Santaduck, I can assure you, there is a huge base of professional and amateur musicians using iTunes and the iPod. I haven't revealed this to the group yet - but we are actually professional musicians with currently more than 600 original musical works being broadcast around the globe. We have been using iPods for around 2 years now to transport our own original music to and from the studio. Now we just broadcast it to each other using DOT-POD. And my iPod currently has 0 songs which below to other composers.
Now, AppleJustWorks ... I hope that my explanations above have helped. Can you see any reason why I am breaking the law? Gosh, I don't even have any other peoples music on my iPod. If I have a CD burner would you assume I use it to copy other peoples work? If I have a tape recorder do you wonder if I take it into concerts and record their music? Do I take my video recorder into movies and pirate their work? Even rope is illegal if you use it to strangle someone.
The way the law works is that you are innocent until you break the law. Simple. DOT-POD isn't illegal just because it exists or if I use it to publish my own work. But if I use DOT-POD, Web-Sharing, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, or any other web server to publish copyright material then I would be breaking the law.
Music software which has been in the spotlight recently regarding copyright infringements is due to 1 of 2 reasons.
1) The software affects the operation of someone else's software (ie iTunes/Apple and various plugins developed to open up sharing - DOT-POD does not interfere or interact with any Apple software)
2) The software developer is involved in the process of copyright infringement (like these large file sharing networks - where the developer sits in the middle sharing IP address to facilitate connection of remote users - DOT-POD doesn't work like this either)
I hope this helps
Happy Easter
Jeff
DOT-POD
DOT-POD New Version Release
Hi all,
DOT-POD (iPod web server) Version 1.0b7 is now online at:
http://www.dotpod.net/DOT-POD.sit
Rather than simply selecting an Artist and all tracks by that artist being published - you can now choose to publish by Artist or Album. Then once you have selected the Albums or Artists to publish, you can specify which individual tracks to publish.... or just publish them all.
Also, when you re-launch DOT-POD you can choose to use your last DOT-POD playlist or re-select new tracks to publish
Enjoy
Jeff
DOT-POD
Hi all,
DOT-POD (iPod web server) Version 1.0b7 is now online at:
http://www.dotpod.net/DOT-POD.sit
Rather than simply selecting an Artist and all tracks by that artist being published - you can now choose to publish by Artist or Album. Then once you have selected the Albums or Artists to publish, you can specify which individual tracks to publish.... or just publish them all.
Also, when you re-launch DOT-POD you can choose to use your last DOT-POD playlist or re-select new tracks to publish
Enjoy
Jeff
DOT-POD
iPod, iTunes & iPhoto Web server update
Hi All,
I am pleased to announce new releases of DOT-POD, DOT-TUNES and DOT-PHOTOS.
DOT-POD contains a few bug fixes and enhancements
DOT-TUNES is iTunes 4.5 compatible - please report any issues regarding foreign characters in file names
DOT-PHOTOS Serves your iPhoto Albums or select any folder to publish any images
If you have time, I'd love to hear how you go with these applications.
http://www.dotpod.net/DOT-POD.sit
http://www.dotpod.net/DOT-TUNES.sit - compatible with iTunes 4.5
http://www.dotpod.net/DOT-PHOTOS.sit - currently only publishes .jpg files but this will be expanded shortly.
Cheers
Jeff
Hi All,
I am pleased to announce new releases of DOT-POD, DOT-TUNES and DOT-PHOTOS.
DOT-POD contains a few bug fixes and enhancements
DOT-TUNES is iTunes 4.5 compatible - please report any issues regarding foreign characters in file names
DOT-PHOTOS Serves your iPhoto Albums or select any folder to publish any images
If you have time, I'd love to hear how you go with these applications.
http://www.dotpod.net/DOT-POD.sit
http://www.dotpod.net/DOT-TUNES.sit - compatible with iTunes 4.5
http://www.dotpod.net/DOT-PHOTOS.sit - currently only publishes .jpg files but this will be expanded shortly.
Cheers
Jeff