Rapster Beta 8 Released

Rapster is a free, fully featured, unofficial Napster client for the MacOS. Rapster supports file downloads (including resumable download(s)), searching, and a complete chat and private message system. Rapster also allows you to use your previously registered Napster account or register a new one.

Rapster also features a Search window, including Advanced search options. You can save the search criteria as a Bookmark, for future searches. You can also save MP3s to be opened by your favorite player. The File Download window includes estimated time and download speed.

New Features in Rapster 1.0b8 PPC
• Some bugs fixed
• Drag and Drop Support - Now you can drop your search result to Queued Downloads Window, and you can Drag your song (while the download is not finished) and Drop it to Rapster Player, or another Player
• New Preferences Window
• New Graphics !
• New Player

Napster is developed by a team of Brazilian teenagers who call themselves the Overcaster Family. The Overcaster partners, aged 16 to 18, live in several Brazialian cities and came up with the idea of forming a Mac software development team in English class. The leader of the group is a young woman named Roberta Zouain.

For more information about Overcaster and Rapster, check out this ZDNet story story by Rogério Taira of MacNews Brasil.

For more information or to download Rapster, visit:
http://www.macnews.com.br/overcaster/rapster.html

AMP3 Simple Freeware MP3 Player Released

AMP3's developer, Perry Fjellman, claims that it incorporates "tons of options that other MP3 players don't have," and it's very small and optimized. Unlike some other MP3 players, AMP3 doesn't require 10MB of RAM and 6MB of Hard Disk space.

Mr. Fjellman says he developed AMP3 because he was sick of the time expiration on Audion, and ad didn't to shell out $20 for an MP3 player, so he wrote one himself. Sounds like the hard way to save twenty bucks, but what do I know?

AMP3Features:
• Seamlessly Drag & Drop.
• Save playlists.
• Start playing songs automatically when opened.
• Open a file that you can use for your default when opened.
• Fade songs out when closed.
• Play songs as they're dropped.
• Automatically play the song you've dropped into the playlist. If you drop a playlist, it will play the first song in the playlist.
• Have the Control Center window can float globally, over everything else. This is handy for hiding the playlist and moving the Control Center window into the corner of the screen for simple control over your songs during the course of your work.

System Requirements:
PowerPC @ 100MHz with at least 2MB RAM (2-3MB recommended). OS8 recommended, "because AMP3 looks like shit on anything less," says Perry Fjellman

For more information or to download, visit:
http://applesource.hypermart.net/software/amp3/index.html

Charles W. Moore

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February 09, 2012