Hands on: Miro 4.0 offers music management, Android sync

The participatory culture Foundation (PCF) recently Miro 4, a new major version of its open-source media player. The new version is the support for music library management and Android device synchronization - extension Miro on beyond its historical roots as a tool for consuming Internet video.

Miro was originally in 2006 under the name of democracy player with the aim of the opening video. Its creators hoped to move the top-down approach of the traditional broadcasting power of the Internet. The application allows end users to consume Internet video content from a variety of independent sources. The scope of the application has grown over the years, but the focus remained largely on open technology and encourage the growth of including content ecosystems.

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Google Announces film rent for Android music streaming in beta,

Laboratories Android devices come to music and film rental service directly from Google, the company at its I/O Conference announced today. Customers will be able to stream movies from Android market and streaming gets their own uploaded music from a Google service "music beta." Users can also "Lock both types of media for their devices for offline consumption".

Music-beta, currently available invitation only for Android powered devices with at least version 2.2, enables uploading users that up to 20,000 songs on music.google.com. Customers can then the on Android devices stream music or "pin" it to the device for local storage. Devices will be in the position, automatically cached also recently played audio content for offline use. The music service shall be released "at least while it is in beta," so here's development hoping on a Google mail-style flight path.

The film service, which is now live as a tab in the Android market, allows users access to movie rentals at a price of $1.99 per film. Rented movie are then Vorbis or pinnable on Android devices, although Google does not say how long tenants are preserved access to the video.

Google has also not mentioned whether DRM used for the film rent, but in view of the fact that Android 3.0 a new DRM framework added the videos are probably not in the free and clear. The service seems to be unrelated to YouTube streaming video service where only 3,000 Hollywood titles have been added.

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