I admit, I strayed. I was having trouble connecting and could not fix it, despite mucking with my firewall and router and TCP port forwarding and a bunch of crap that is a bit like black magic, even to a techie like me. So I went back to LifeHacker and installed their other recommended media streamer: Orb.
Do not use this product. It is bloated and slow. The UI is massively cluttered, and the simplest task of trying to look up a song and play it is excruciatingly painful. Can you believe they have the player UI pop up in a separate panel that floats above the useless secondary features in the UI on the page? Crazy. I uninstalled it immediately.
And I figured out a work-around for my JukeFly connectivity issue. I still can't get it to connect in Firefox 3 RC1, but it works fine in Safari. And as long as it works fine in one of my browsers, I'm a happy guy.
My one wish is that they had a "search all fields" feature. I hate having to swap between artist and song in the pop-up. Oh, and I'm not a big fan of the red, gray and black color scheme. Still, minor nits. Overall, 5 stars.
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