It seems there has been some drama recently surrounding SiriusMac and its future.
Fortunately Barry Walters, the original developer, is continuing on development of the project and plans to release version 2.0 shortly. He also has introduced XMac which is the equivalent player for those stuck with XM service. SiriusMac is a fantastic program and has found a permanent home on my dock – it gets almost as much use as the actual Sirius tuner in my car. The only feature I wish it had was Last.Fm support for scrobbling the current track being listed to.
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This sums things up rather concisely.
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You don’t appear to have the whole story. To be fair, here are the posts on NiceMac.com
http://nicemac.com/index.php?topic=780.0
http://nicemac.com/index.php?topic=774.0
Heh, the “whole story”. Goodtime convinced VM to use his server, his paypal account, his everything since he already had it setup and that would save VM time. But you can think whatever you want, whenever anyone googles the new “SiriusOnX” one of the first 3 results they will see is the story blasting Goodtime for being such a sniveling cheat.
Once again, a very small sliver of truth and an equally small part of the Story. SiriusOnX is in the works. Written entirely from scratch. What is the big deal? VM wanted to do his own thing for a long time. He wanted his own SiriusMac forum and now he has it. He has it own place now. I fronted all the cost, up keep and support.
I think my description of things was fair based upon what I’ve read. Barry wrote the original code – that fact doesn’t seem to be disputed by anyone. Goodtime contributed for a while then chose to stop. Whatever the reason for the difference of opinion I’m just glad to see that the project is continuing on and that Barry is open to adding my desired Last.Fm support in a future release.
@Goodtime
I don’t think anyone is making a big deal. If you choose to go forward with developing SiriusOnX and it turns out to be better than SiriusMac I’d be happy to consider switching. More choices are generally a good thing.