{"id":178,"date":"2007-04-09T23:27:56","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2007-04-09T23:27:56","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T22:27:56","slug":"mp3-device-runs-net-but-in-mono-guise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/178-mp3-device-runs-net-but-in-mono-guise.html","title":{"rendered":"MP3 device runs .NET – but in Mono guise"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve long been interested in Mono<\/a>, the open-source implementation of Microsoft .NET. It seems to be maturing; the latest sign is the appearance of an MP3 player using Linux and Mono<\/a>. Engadget has an extensive review<\/a>. Miguel de Icaza says on his blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Sansa Connect is running Linux as its operating system, and the whole application stack is built on Mono, running on an ARM processor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I had not previously considered Mono for embedded systems; yet here it is, and why not?<\/p>\n

The device is interesting too. As Engadget says:<\/p>\n

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… you can get literally any music in Yahoo’s catalog whenever you have a data connection handy<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This has to be the future of portable music. It’s nonsense loading up a device with thousands of songs when you can have near-instant access to whatever you like. That said, wi-fi hotspots are not yet sufficiently widespread or cheap for this to work for me; but this model is the one that makes sense, long-term.<\/p>\n

I wonder if iPhone\/iTunes will end up doing something like this?<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: mono<\/a>, .net<\/a>, sansa connect<\/a>, yahoo music<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve long been interested in Mono, the open-source implementation of Microsoft .NET. It seems to be maturing; the latest sign is the appearance of an MP3 player using Linux and Mono. Engadget has an extensive review. Miguel de Icaza says on his blog: The Sansa Connect is running Linux as its operating system, and the whole … Continue reading MP3 device runs .NET – but in Mono guise<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,48,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-itunes","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}