This is old news, but simplecenter has been open sourced. What does that mean? To me it means I can get newer versions and customize it to fit my needs. To others it means that the group at simplecenter hope to make it the iTunes and WMP alternative.

I own a Rockford Fosgate Omnifi system purchased from woot more than a year ago. The device has served its purpose well – streaming MP3′s wirelessly from my PC to my hifi system. The only downfalls it has are that the device does not have a digital out interface and that there isn’t a neat touchscreen remote that will work from various rooms in the house. As well, it does not support flac and has a limited database that allows only ten thousand MP3′s to be added to the library.

Earlier this week I figured out how to hack the version of simplecenter shipped with the Omnifi to allow more than ten thousand songs – a little editing of a properties file within the jar file that housed the application’s code. However, I still wasn’t pleased with the operation of the application, using a large XML file to store the media library. I did some looking and saw that the Omnifi support direct from Omnifi has all but disappeared and that simplecenter has open sourced their code. Read the rest of this entry »