#Startec doubletwist mac os x
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Even the upload window itself is a little too barren, as it is not abundantly clear which service the user has elected to begin sharing media over. The pictures are simply uploaded, forcing you to leave doubleTwist to perform any further organization. Plug in your 5MP Nokia N95 and drag the day's photos into your local Pictures folder.ĭoubleTwist's upload window sending videos to YouTube, though you wouldn't know it from the window itselfĭoubleTwist's social features could also use some more attention, as there is no way to add photos to specific albums on Facebook or Flickr. Drag an MPEG4 video from your iTunes library to your Sony Ericsson phone and doubleTwist will convert it to an appropriate format on-the-fly. Support for the iPod, iPhone, and Zune are listed as PC-only right now (the client is in private testing), but the company wants to support as many devices as possible. DRM is still alive and well on mainstream video sold by any major outlet-iTunes Store, Zune Marketplace, Amazon Video On Demand-and we imagine most iTunes Store customers have not finished upgrading their libraries to DRM-free versions.ĭRM aside, the killer aspect of doubleTwist's ?ber-management approach is its already impressive support for a broad array of devices, like BlackBerry, PSP, flash-based camcorders, and even the Amazon Kindle. 'The recent move to DRM-free content by Apple opened the floodgates and makes doubleTwist even more relevant and useful because users are no longer locked into iTunes.' Clearly, Johansen and company had to give up on some of their initial dream, but the floodgates have certainly not been opened completely. 'We don't offer any DRM-related functionality,' Farantzos told Ars in an e-mail on Tuesday. Strangely, doubleTwist requires users to create an account on first run for the company's file sharing service, which we'll get to in a minute. iTunes DRM music will play (presumably by using QuickTime to authenticate in the background), but movies and videos will not. It provides basic media player options for most of this media, but DRMed content is mostly off-limits.

#Startec doubletwist mac os x

'One media library manager to rule them all' was the idea, and while doubleTwist scaled back somewhat for this public Mac OS X beta, it's still quite an interesting product.ĭoubleTwist sniffs through all your connected gadgets and drives, then displays the photos, music, and videos it finds, listed by device. It could then sync that media back to your desktop or another device, performing any conversions or DRM-stripping as required.

'Our goal is to provide a simple and well integrated solution,' said co-founder Monique Farantzos at the time, 'that the average consumer can use to eliminate the headaches associated with their expanding digital universe.' When we looked at doubleTwist in February 2008, it could recognize files like DRMed iTunes media on an iPod, clean MPEG4 video from your cell phone, and everything in between.

#Startec doubletwist windows

When Johansen announced doubleTwist as an extremely early Windows beta a year ago, it was a media manager that could organize music, photos, and video, but it also did DRM-stripping and Facebook file sharing. It's iTunes meets YouTube, and the iPod is no longer the only VIP. Pursuing the goal of tearing down these walls, Johansen's new company has released doubleTwist, an ambitious media organizer and service that can sync content between a wide variety of gadgets it also helps you share files with friends. Jon Lech Johansen, best known for his work on reverse-engineering the CSS encryption on DVDs, is no fan of the technical and DRM barriers that stand between us, our content, and our devices.