Finetune Desktop Launches
Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch had the first crack at the news that the Finetune Desktop is officially launching tonight. The icon is now on the site, right below the player on the left side, so anyone can grab it.
I’ve been using the Finetune service for a long time now and continue to be impressed. The desktop client makes a huge difference in how I listen to music. It adds a lot to my experience because I don’t have to go sorting through tabs when I want to skip the song or push the pause button. It also doesn’t crash when the browser does, and with Firefox that happens often.
You’ll need to download Apollo if you haven’t already, but then go grab the Finetune Desktop and check it out. And if you’re looking for playlists, I have one right here. 
[tags]Finetune, Apollo, Desktop[/tags]
Posted in Rich Internet Applications
April 10th, 2007 at 7:31 am
Do they allow country on RIAs?
April 10th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Okay, well, I really hope this doesn’t sound like a criticism of this awesome Apollo app–arguably the best one yet. I use it (for all music except country) and send props to Tony et al. However, I don’t know how this can be considered an “official launch” considering Apollo is still alpha.
It is cool that there’s a real useful app out there in the public now… and, I don’t think it’s some huge risky move to base an app on Apollo–it’s not like vaporware or anything. I suppose with everything on google being “beta” maybe nothing’s ever official anyway.
April 10th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Country is all ABOUT RIA
@Phillip, I’m with you on this one, and I’ve been using the app for a while, but I don’t remember how I got it. I think we’ll see a lot of this, people trying to get some buzz off of releasing Apollo apps. I don’t fault them for it, but I think it is going to get confusing.