Another Great Use for AIR – Beatport Downloader

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Thanks to CrunchGear I just caught wind of the Beatport Downloader. It’s an AIR application that lets you download and manage music you buy from the beatport service, a music store along the lines of Amazon MP3 and iTunes but that focuses on trance/techno/electronic.

I’ve been hoping and wishing on the stars here in Seattle that Amazon would release an AIR version of their MP3 downloader because I think AIR provides a great use case for this kind of thing. The link between the web and the filesystem makes downloading very easy. You can create your own filetypes so you could download a smaller XML file with references to the songs and then load that into the AIR application and have the app start downloading. It’s all cross platform so you’d open the service up to Mac, Windows, and Linux – with just one code base to worry about.

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  • http://www.streampad.com Dan Kantor

    One big reason why Amazon did not create a downloader in AIR is because they need to hook into iTunes’ API to open up iTunes and import the new files. It is a COM API on Windows and AppleScript on Mac.