Why iTunes is So Hard to Beat
by James R. Stoup on Dec 01, 2008
"The details are not details. They make the product." ~Charles EamesFor the past two weeks I've been trying different Linux music players on my Fedora 9 laptop in hopes of finding something that compares to …(read more)
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