Senuti
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| Developer(s) | Whitney Young |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.2.9
/ April 19, 2006 |
| Operating system | macOS |
| License | Shareware |
| Website | fadingred |
Senuti (iTunes spelled backwards) 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 sold and distributed Senuti, it has been downloaded over 2 million times.[1]
Description
[edit]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 from FadingRed's 'Adieu' page as a free demo, which allows the user to transfer 1,000 songs from an iPod. The unlimited version was available for around US$20, and can still be activated with an existing product key. No technical support is provided for Senuti as of January 19th, 2019.
History
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "FadingRed".
- ^ 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
[edit]How to Use Senuti – a wiki how-to guide