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Fruity - Sample Music Your Way

Fruity

What is this?

Fruity is an fresh alternative way to browse the iTunes Music Store.

By dragging any link from the iTunes Music Store into Fruity, you will have access to a continuous sample of the album. In addition to that, it will seek out all the albums that are related to the one you're listening to.

You can also copy and paste links from iTunes if you're not dextrous with your mouse.

Download

Download Fruity

Download Fruity 1.0 (368KB - 10 May 2006)

Requires Mac OS X 10.4. It is freeware.

Instructions

How to use Fruity

Drag (or copy and paste) any link from the iTunes Music Store to the application and it will automatically start playing. There are buttons to skip forward or back and the ability to pause. The button on the bottom right jumps you to iTunes page for the sample you are listening to.

Happy exploring!

Changes

1.0 (10 May 2006)

  • Volume Controls.
  • Added extracting artwork and sample url.
  • More stuff in menus.

0.3 (27 Apr 2006)

  • Stop playing album from being listed again as a related one.
  • Changed to a unified toolbar rather than ugly custom overlaid buttons.
  • Removed volume controls (will be added back in later)
  • Deals with playlists with PDFs files better.

0.2.1 (22 Apr 2006)

  • Threading issues (another attempt to resolve this)
  • Allowing some other iTunes URLs I forgot about.

0.2 (20 Apr 2006)

  • Public release.

About

Fruity was created by Alastair Tse.

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Your names says
11
sdf
  • 2 months, 1 week ago (25/02/2008)
shawty says
10
wassup
  • 2 months, 1 week ago (25/02/2008)
jamzim says
9
Thanks for this tasty app! I notice the latest versions of iTunes cause Fruity to display album art that doesn't match what's being currently played/suggested. Also, track #1 is often not accessible. Finally, Fruity mysteriously "unpauses itself" sometimes! Despite the aforementioned, I still totally dig the app...
  • 11 months, 1 week ago (06/06/2007)
Alastair Tse says
8
Actually I've been working on a new version that I will release some time soon (maybe at the end of the month). This one will be much easier, faster and better to use than this one.

Being able to mark tracks and export that information out is something that is one the cards. Hopefully I'll have more news in the future. If you are interested in beta testing, drop me an email and I'll send you a copy when it is ready.
  • 11 months, 1 week ago (04/06/2007)
vic says
7
alastair-
do yo intend on making fruity store all the music dragged on to and auditioned by fruity?
i'm a dj buyer. it means i buy music for other djs. here's the thing.
if fruity had a pref to store the music auditioned, then dj buyers like us would have a much easier time 'selling' music to other djs.

of course i wouldn't really be making any money you see, itunes would be making money.

what do you think, is something like this going to happen in the universal binary release?

thanks for your fruity, i love it regardless
  • 11 months, 1 week ago (04/06/2007)
Alastair Tse says
6
I'm working on a universal cocoa rewrite of this. It works, but still needs some polish before I release it. Hang tight :)
  • 1 year ago (20/04/2007)
Ian says
5
Hmmm, crashes on launch. I've tried downloading it twice. Running 10.4.8 on 2.3GHz Dual G5.
  • 1 year, 3 months ago (01/02/2007)
Alastair Tse says
4
Too bad I can't trust people to not leave 10s of comments for me to delete ;)
  • 1 year, 3 months ago (15/01/2007)
Joe says
3
But your site's comment system needs work. :-)
  • 1 year, 3 months ago (15/01/2007)
Joe says
2
Thanks for making this thing! Great job.
  • 1 year, 3 months ago (15/01/2007)
Jan Fabry says
1
It would be nice if the music would fade in and out like it does in iTunes. That way, the passages are less abrupt. Or maybe a short crossfade.

The tab sequence of the related albums is a bit odd, but that's a really minor thing.

I love this thing, and I know some friends who will also!
  • 1 year, 9 months ago (06/08/2006)
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