I know I've talked about JukeFly before, but I have to follow up and say that they are by far the best, easiest to use, most customer friendly streaming music solution out there, aided in part by the snappy performance. Searching, finding, and playing a song takes as little time in JukeFly as it would were I using iTunes on my local computer. And the sound quality is superb.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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