TunA and Socializing via MP3 Player

An anonymous reader writes "Wired is carrying a story about a new program in development called TunA. It will allow you to view other users playlists on their MP3 Player and also stream the music to your Player. Works through WiFi so it limits to mostly laptops for now. "

::cough::

[mrpuffypants]

ahem....

----> Rendezvous [apple.com]

and

----> iTunes Music Sharing [apple.com]

like radio?

[r84x]

"I'm not sure that a device that would allow streaming but wouldn't allow you to copy would be very popular," he said.

So, I guess what he is saying is that radio is dying? People have listened to radio broadcasts of music for decades, and continue to, without being able to keep the music. What is different now?

Music networking

[joekra]

A more primitive take on this is DailyTunes.com [dailytunes.com]

where you can make song recommendations to others for itunes songs. A very cool concept.

Finally..

[msimm]

P2P has socialized downloads like never before. Information need to be as fluid as conversation, technology has a (gasp, healthy!) social element that has been ignored for way too long.

Hrrmm..

[msimm]

Kind of sucks that you can be modded down (or up) by someone, but they can't comment on your thread to tell you why.

Uh, no..

[Lysol]

Not the same at all. Specifically for the fact that it's meant as a 'social Walkman' and, as we all know, Walkman's are portable. iTunes is not and, no, a 12" Powerbook is not the portable I'm talking about. The iPod is portable, but lacks Wi-Fi and the varying operating system features TunA requires. This is meant strictly for palm computers, of which, a version of iTunes does not (will never?) exist.

I just submitted this story a few hours ago. Rejected once again..