Miro 5.0 released, adds new music management tools, better device syncing

The Participatory Culture Foundation has released the final build of Miro 5.0, its cross-platform open-source music and video player. Version 5 provides a new tool for looking up missing music information and artwork from the internet, providing the user with a quick means of cleaning up their music databases. Version 5.0 also introduces a new view options for music and video, faster device synchronising and conversion, support for purchasing music from eMusic, the ability to download HD video from Vimeo feeds and major updates to the Windows backend. Miro 5.0’s headline new features concern its music cataloguing and organising capabilities. The new tool for sourcing missing track information and album artwork utilises the Echonest and 7Digital databases respectively to automatically fill in the gaps. Let Miro automatically fill in the gaps in your music collection's metadata and artwork. The feature will be offered the first time a user switches to the Music tab after upgrading to Miro 5.0 – an option for cleaning up all song titles and albums is provided, or the user is provided with instructions for performing a cleanup on selected content only. It also appears during the New User Configuration wizard that appears when Miro is launched for the first time, and can be both run and configured via Miro’s Preferences pane under the General tab as well as the File and context menus. Other changes include a new Album View, which groups together all songs by album and artist, plus a simplified view to allow video to be viewed by kind, such as movies, clips or podcasts. Miro’s device sync support is also improved, offering a Quick Fill option to speedily transfer content to the currently connected device. Syncing is now automatic, and an option to convert media only when necessary has also been added to further speed up the process. Other minor changes include the addition of the eMusic website to the Stores section of the program, allowing users to purchase content directly from here, which automatically adds it to their library. Vimeo podcasts now also come with HD video support where available. Rounding off the update are massive changes and updates to the Windows backend, covering all aspects including playback, the user interface and libtorrent. Miro 5.0 is a free and open-source download for Windows, Mac and Linux. An iPad version is also currently in development, although no release date has yet been announced.

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Browse Amazon S3, Nirvanix or Timeline Cloud accounts from Cloud Turtle

Online storage services can be a great way to share documents or back up key files. Of course they all have their own interfaces and clients, though, so if you use more than one then you'll have plenty of software to install and master. But maybe it doesn't have to be that way. Cloud Turtle (from Genie9, the company behind the Genie Timeline backup package) doesn't only work with Genie9′s own Timeline Cloud service, where it enables you to search your backed up files, restore any you need, stream music and videos, and more. It also delivers equally strong functionality with both Amazon S3 and Nirvanix accounts. Once you've provided the login details of your S3 account, for instance, Cloud Turtle does of course provide support for the basics, such as uploading and downloading buckets and objects.  But the program is also able to handle many more low-level S3 configuration options: setting up HTTP headers for objects, defining access control lists, controlling logging, and more. And it's a similar story on Nirvanix accounts, where Cloud Turtle can upload, download and delete files and folders, stream music and videos to your system, even view and edit file metadata. The program does also have its problems. Error handling is poor, for example: if there's some issue in communicating with your account then you probably won't be told. Cloud Turtle simply won't work.  Which may quickly become very frustrating, as we couldn't find any meaningful documentation for the program anywhere. Still, if you do use two or more of the supported services then Cloud Turtle could save you time. And it's perhaps an interesting pointer to the future, where it's likely we'll see many more tools offer access to multiple cloud services from a single, unified interface.

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Facebook for iOS 6.0 adds floating chat heads

Facebook, Inc. has released Facebook for iOS 6.0, a major update for its iPhone and iPad app. The major new feature in version 6 is the introduction of “chat heads”, which allow users to chat from anywhere in the app – this feature isn’t yet universally available, but should be rolled out to all users “soon”, according to Facebook. Chat heads are small circular icons representing both individual chatters and Facebook Messages. The chat head appears automatically when receiving a message, or can be manually set up by tapping the contact’s name in the contacts list. The chat heads float on top of the main Facebook window: users can continue to use other parts of Facebook such as the news feed, then resume chatting by tapping the appropriate chat head icon. Icons can be dragged into new positions on-screen, while users can temporarily close the chat window by tapping away from it. The chat head icon can be removed simply by tapping and dragging the chat head down on to the close button at the bottom of the screen. Floating chat heads let you chat from anywhere within the Facebook app. The new feature is accompanied on the iPhone with the addition of support for inserting stickers – large smiley icons – into messages. Tap the smiley button to select one of 32 pre-included smiley faces, while more icons can be downloaded via the Sticker Store, which is accessible by tapping the blue basked icon. At the present time seven additional stickers are available – all free. iPhone users also gain support for customising their feed, with support for browsing new feeds like Music, Photos and Games. While iPad users don’t gain stickers with this build, they will find the main screen has been redesigned to bring photos and other pictorial elements front and centre. This mirrors developments made to the main Facebook.com news feed last month, a feature that Facebook claims populates the feed with “brighter, more beautiful stories”. Facebook for iOS 6.0 is available now as a free download for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.