Monday, April 06, 2009

Give your music some Mojo

We all know iTunes. It kicks some serious tush. Everything from the basic organization abilities to the latest and greatest genius feature makes it easy to see why its so popular.

Unfortunately however, not all of us can afford to purchase all the music that we want off iTunes. This lead us to all of those crazy peer-to-peer sites. Don't get me wrong, they are great, but the viruses and crappy quality that go along with them eventually get old. Torrents are great too, but if you live in a place with a network (HELLO DORM KIDS?!) I am about to change your life. Change it, without stopping the use of iTunes.

Its called Mojo. Once you've loaded it, it comes up on your screen similar to a buddy list. All the people on that list, are people currently online who also have Mojo. When you click on their username, you see their itunes. Best part is, not only can you see it, but you can take it. Yes take it. All of it. There are privacy settings to keep people from taking personal music/videos/etc, so don't worry about keeping your latest recording safe. It also locks music purchased on itunes as well (if they bought it, you have to too), but aside from that its all available.

Spread the word on your campus, dorm, apartment building, wherever. Just get it moving, and once it starts, the gigabytes pile up and you are loving your ipod more than you have in your entire life. Personally, it took about 3 weeks to get popular in my dorm (with almost 600 people living here), and it took one week to add over 4 thousand songs to my own library. Its easy to share with friends too, especially considering you can see individual playlists.

And yes ladies and gents, its free:
Mojo - Deusty Designs

Peace, Love, Rock and Roll
-Kaitlyn Hope Polles
your friendly School of the Art Institute of Chicago's campus manager