MyTunes brings back the Memories............

I just read this article about a utility called MyTunes that allowed other computers to play songs sold through the ITunes Apple store.  It brings back memories when in 1999, I wrote a little VB6 program that caught the web stream of 96Rock in Atlanta and saved it to the local hard drive of a system.  I used some components from Real to catch the stream and then I saved it to the local harddrive.  I would set the application to catch the data starting at 5:30 am and to quit at 10:15 am.  It ran like a champ every day.  The files would be about 40 megs of data each day.  Once a month, I would burn the content to CD.  Too bad that a couple of years ago, somebody broke into my Jeep and stole my laptop, and also a bunch of these CDs in the case with the laptop.  I lost the source code in a reformat of one of my systems and I have never recreated anything to get this to replace it.  I sure do miss listening to the Regular Guys every morning and not missing a moment of their show.  Ahh, the memories.........

Wally

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  • Just a small correction, MyTunes never allowed you to download or play other people's songs bought through iTunes Music Store. MyTunes allowed you to stream unencrypted files from another user's iTunes application and save them to your disk. In short, it provided the ability to store files you listened to from other users locally.



    VLC's latest incarnation can do what you thought MyTunes could do however...



    And it's a too bad you lost your CDs of those guys and your code, but I bet that radio station doesn't stream their radio anymore either.

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