Blue Coconut 1.5b: iTunes sharing

Thanks to TUAW reader Kesey for pointing me to a new release of Paul Mison's Blue Coconut iTunes sharing application. What BC does is allow you to download tracks from another user's shared library instead of just streaming them. This is a great little app; I've used it in the past when I was on a network where people shared libraries and it's nice to see it updated for Tiger/iTunes 4.9. The 1.5 beta also has some new features, like putting downloaded tracks into specified playlists, and automatically deleting downloads after importing them into your iTunes library. A few things to note: this runs on the client computer; the person you want to get music from doesn't have to do anything. This means that you can't download tracks that aren't shared. It also means that you can't do anything with DRM'd files you don't have passwords/access codes for. All in all, these are good things.

On another note, TUAW sends our best today to Paul and his wife, who live in London.