Senuti
Developer(s) | Whitney Young |
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Stable release | 1.2.9 (As of December 3, 2012) |
Operating system | Mac OS X |
License | Shareware |
Website | http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/ |
Senuti (iTunes spelled backward) is a Mac OS X computer application written by Whitney Young. It was released on April 19, 2006 for copying songs from an iPod to a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.5 or later. According to FadingRed, the company that sells and distributes Senuti, it has been downloaded over 2 million times.[1]
Description
Senuti is an application for transferring files, such as songs and videos, from an iPod or iPhone back to a Macintosh computer. It is a Mac OS X exclusive application; no version of Senuti has been released for Microsoft Windows. It can be downloaded as a free demo, which allows the user to transfer 1,000 songs from an iPod. The unlimited version is available for around US$20.
History
Senuti was developed by Whitney Young, who started as a high school senior searching for a way to transfer music from his iPod onto a Mac computer. Upon realizing that a good solution did not exist, Whitney wrote one. He leveraged the developers in the open source community to help him write the code.[2] Senuti is now sold by a software company called FadingRed, of which Young is co-founder and lead developer.[3]
Senuti was originally released as GNU GPL software. The code following the 0.50.2 release was changed to payware in February 2009,[4] although publications such as Wired still referred to the product as Open Source code as late as April 2009.[5] The older, GPL version of this software is still available online.
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.fadingred.com/senuti/
- ↑ About Us at FadingRed.com
- ↑ FadingRed.com
- ↑ Senuti Goes Payware at recursion.org
- ↑ Get Your Music Off of Your iPod at wired.com
- Senuti 0.50.6 at VersionTracker
- "Music Rescue" from Macworld, February 2005
- "In Praise of Senuti" from Macworld, August 2006 archive copy
- Information from Softpedia
- Senuti: From iPod to iTunes from MacApper, Accessed 25 July 2007, published 17 July 2007
- Winner of the 2005 Eddy Awards
External links
How to Use Senuti - a wiki how-to guide