Miro6.0

New links for are available for version 3.0.3 (ftp://ftp.osuosl.org//.2/pculture.org/democracy/osx/Miro-3.0.3.dmg) and 4.0.6 (ftp://ftp.osuosl.org//.2/pculture.org/democracy/osx/Miro-4.0.6.dmg)

Six more months down the road, and 6.0 is still a "release candidate" and hasn't grown up to a full version as yet. If it's just music support that you need, peek at Clementine. If you need something for all media, and can spend a little time doing step, VLC Media Player can fulfill all of your needs except major syncing and streaming. If you are primarily interest in the networking and streaming, get Plex. Anyone of these will not do all that Miro claims it will (one day) do right. And that's the catch... it doesn't do any of its many things right.

I keep following Miro and (unfortunately) keep getting disappointed. I just tried 6.0 and overall, it choke, crashes, and or bogs down on a system with 8g memory, a dual core processor and loads cache space on a 3/4g drive. So what gives? I really do not know and do not have the time find out. I even went as far as disabling all resident memory modules that I could and the improvement was barely noticeable. In addition, the Miro team has been claiming there is Android app on the way... for over two years. Also... album/season recognition of connected files in music/video is the same as far back as the pre-5.0 releases. It would still take hours (days) to fix all fo the miscatalogued files scanned and searched. It does not even recognized main information available in international standards for file naming used by many other multimedia managers. Sigh. Two years of hope are now over for Miro.

HI there, I'm a novice at this so I hope someone can help me out. I have been using Miro on my Macbook for the past year now. I only started experiencing problem a month or so. First, the movies I downloaded just disappear on me. I've search my entire computer for that particular file and can not locate it so I needed to downloaded again. That's no biggie. Just time consuming. Next, I made a mistake in designated my miro ext. drive as my time machine back up drive also. Ever since, I could not open miro to change the download folder. Miro comes up saying that it does not have permission to write to that drive and gave an option to either cancel and manually change it or "change folder" button. When I clicked on the "change folder", Miro sits on the background and nothing happens. First few times I thought the system just needs more time so I left it for entire day. Nothing changed when I returned. I even gone as far as to delete every files associated with miro on my Macbook and download it again and reinstalled it. No different. I have put in multiple tickets to Miro tech support but as you may know, it's usually takes them awhile to response back. It's been 3 weeks now and I'm still waiting for their reply. If anyone knows of any solution for this problem, please help. I simply can't go on without having a working Miro. Thank you.

First of all, there is no other software to compete with Miro, a multimedia player dedicated to your local media (XBMC and Plex have nothing to do here, as they are intended for networking media centers — to use in your sofa with an Apple Remote). I've mainly used it to collect and watch internet videos to avoid glitches due to low bandwidth, and it excels in that. I've tried playing music and it certainly isn't an iTunes replacement. I don't use all the other functions for the moment, and I partially agree with JCH2: I haven't seen many changes through the updates and it probably should concentrate on what it does best and leave the rest aside. Features that I would like to have: - the ability to classify your media in virtual folders, without a distinction between your local media and Internet subscriptions. - downloaded files having the name they have in Miro, and not a cryptic one, and keeping the trace of the original URL somewhere (they lose it if you move the Miro folder or if you rename the file...). - the ability to move your Miro folder to another disk without losing the names of the downloaded files So yes it's perfectible, but I still recommend it for fluently playing stuttering Internet videos

Overall, Miro is still a wannabe. Much as I hate iTunes bloat and invasive nature, Miro doesn't cut it. There's no way to really sync the content with anything except maybe plugged in Apple product, and even in that it falls way behind. During import of iTunes data, it does not read embedded tv shows and I end up spending hours correcting it. The flat listing or epsiodes or songs in an album means I have multi select or create playlists for everything in order play anything in an organized one shot launch. I keep hoping Miro will catch up, but it's another case of the development not listening to what is really needed by the users... just like with DoubleTwist ... though DT actually does have a few ways to sync with many devices. I'll keep watching, but I'm not hoping much since it's four major versions now without the developer getting what's really needed in this day and age. Focus on how to get the files into devices, for yet another music player/converter is not enough, especially since it has some critical weaknesses that need to be address. Diversity of features doesn't hold up in the long run if the features are weaker than in other applications that individual do the needed task better.

About the "not so easy" way to participate in localization ;-), I found that the browser Sunrise is a real model of simplicity for that! May be you can get some inspiration out of it? http://www.sunrisebrowser.com/ (the Development tab indicates the procedure, which is integrated in a menu of the browser)

So powerful and easy to use. I recommend it to all my friends. Especially useful when you don't have a high bandwidth.

I've always liked Miro from day one but it was in serious need of polishing which is exactly what has finally happened with this release! Miro has become my default player for all movie files and my default bit torrent app. Miro has a very smooth and polished feel to it. It is simply awesome.

Quicktime 7 is built into Lion? I thought it was Quicktime X. I'd better tell Apple.

Miro doesn't like me - refuses to play more than 5% of my media library ... hard to get support for that problem, (latest OS and Miro). Now I just noticed the cover-art folder Miro creates within user/library/app support/miro/cover-art has got 12.89GB of cover art (yes 12.89 gigabytes!). There is 58,727 images in that cover-art folder, most of them are repeated many, many times - I saw 5 or 6 cover art items in this folder repeated 62 times (then i stopped looking). Pity, the feature set was appealing ...

Works nicely and syncing with Android is definitely cool. Although I believe it can be improved feature-wise. A little cosmetic update would also be good.

Oh Jesus, It's still not in 64 bit; I can't handle it.....think I'll blow my brains out. heh heh, not really.....don't give a rat's ass; truly I don't. But Miro, for me, works beautifully, even in 32 bit!

While Miro is great, I've found that my MacBook Pro's CPUs often go up to 100% while running Miro, causing my MBP to run at hotter temps and fans to spin at high rpm.

I just downloaded and tried version Miro version 3.0. It is the first time I have used this application - and I am thoroughly impressed with its terrific user interface and functionality. The developer has also recently released a Miro Video Converter 1.4 - and I am, likewise, thoroughly impressed with it terrific user interface and functionality. I highly recommend BOTH these applications!

Miro 2.0 wiped my channel folders and almost all feeds. Before upgrading, export feed list! Install and open Miro 2.0, wait while it updates the database, delete or save as a seperate export anything left in the sidebar. Import your old old feeds and channel folders. Good as old but faster and more stable!

First the pluses I like about Miro: 1. It still runs nicely under Tiger 2. It still runs nicely under older PPC hardware 3. It has a decent RSS and Torrent side to it. But, for all of that, Miro is plagued by even the most simplest of things that most users pull their hair out and say, "WTF?" "it CAN'T DO THAT?!?" Here is a list of top ten things that Miro needs to make it a 5 star app: 10. Drag and Drop files directly into a Playlist. I'm sorry, but iTunes has spoiled us, and the fact that you have to insanely drag and drop onto the Miro icon ( no where else) and the videos then have to be "add to Library" link checked to add, is ridiculous!! HEllo! I want to add videos that's why I d&D'd them in the fist place! 9. Organize Playlist by AlphaNumeric. Drag six videos all correctly named and numbered into a playlist from the library, and watch Miro freak out and put them in random order. again, c'mon....! 8. Be able to select the Playlist and just initiate playback. Again iTunes lets you select a list, hit play, you get the list playing in order. Paying attention yet....? 7. Be able to have the videos play one after another without remembering to set a preference flag. 6. Ability to Syncronize Playlist Folders to content. Add some content to a watched folder in Miro, make Miro add that content to the matching Playlist. 5. Play all files from the start of the file, or at least give us the option. Miro plays where you left off in a file you last played, or if the file is a stitch together QT refrence movie, made up of say three smaller files pasted one after the other, it picks the last stitch in the QT file and plays from there. Hello! treat it as a new file, and play from the beginning. 4. Turn off BitTorrent and make it so we have to turn it on at first launch of the app. It is on by default, and nothing like putting Miro on an older PPC box and watching it choke because it's too busy trying to torrent, when you just want to set up playlists of your own content. 3. Give us Google search instead of YouTube Search. Miro's youtube search sucks @$$...it can't find the same file within 10 mins of searching. Trash it, and just enable Google search within Miro. Just like Safari, a little Google search bar that we can use to find our content on Youtube faster and easier. 2. When You create a new Playlist, have the Playlist organize in Alpha-Numeric Order! nothing like having a playlist called "Zebra Fun" and then create a new playlist called "Bat-Thing Playhouse" and the "B" playlist just jumps in behind the "Z" playlist. again, iTunes spoiled us on this.....You create a new Playlist, iTunes alpha-numeric organizes the Playlists. Even an option click to just "Sort Playlist by Name" would be sufficient!!! and the #1 thing: Make Miro play Video_TS folders on the Hard Drive! Even if you have to incorporate VLC!!!!!!!

FYI: The latest version of Firefox 3.0 disables Miro: says it is not compatible.

It's incredible to see all of the great Mac channels you get with Miro. You'll be watching Mac television everyday with Miro! It's stable, intuitive interface and just plain good.

Big bug that will cause your incomplete Torrent downloaded data to re-download over again the next time you open Miro 1.1. Not always but about 40% of time it happens

Definitely my favorite all-in-one movie, vpodcast and streamed video tool now. Runs great, save for the startup guide page, and so far runs flawlessly in 10.4.10 on my Intel iMac.

No problems using it, here, on my 17" Powerbook 1 GHz with 1.5GB RAM. OS 10.4.9. Upon launch of Democracy Player, CPU was at 100% for the first minute 'till everything loaded, but my Powerbook maintained total composure, with nary a hiccup, belch or fart. Downloads played just fine. Searching YouTube and Google video via Democracy Player for certain videos that I know are there yielded zilch for some reason. However this app seems to work just fine, overall. I think I'll keep it. It DOES look most interesting.

Seems like a really interesting app. Unfortunately it seems to require a fast broadband connection - I'm on an Australian 1.5M/256K connection and it was not pleasant to use :(

After installing .9.5.1, it indexed my movies, then crashed. I haven't been able to get that far again - it crashes before getting that far. This is a real pity because the program concept seems brilliant.

Excellent for what it does. Lovely interface. One slight "bug": video thumbnails don't refresh when new searches are done - they remain the same as the original search. This can make visually identifying the content of newly searched videos difficult if not impossible without downloading the video. Otherwise, good job!

wow, excellent work ! has the same nice and well designed HID like iTunes, even easyer to work with. iTunes for audio - and - Democracy Player for webTV !