As some blogs recently raved so much of Simfy have, I wanted to go, still quite young and viewed times must confess that my jaw is dropped with a loud bang on the table. Legal, without frickeling millions of songs and play entire albums, the latest hits or exotic free via the browser or an Adobe Air app.Financed through advertising, Simfy thus fills a long unfulfilled gap in the German Internet landscape. Anyone who wants can use with a paid premium account also Simfy on the Android device or iPhone / iPod / iPad and cache the songs so that they can also listen online.

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So I allow to sag once the enthusiasm and look a bit closer to the service. To test Simfy itself can only do you need an account with Simfy, the “free” version is no ifs and buts and really free, so you can sign up for service with a clear conscience. The browser you can switch then search for music, listen to individual tracks, albums or entire play similar to a $ last.fm artist radio. What's more “social gimmicks,” such as favorites, the music of your acquaintances, etc.

Only prerequisite for the streaming offering is that you must have Adobe Flash installed on your computer. Without Flash Simfy unfortunately remains silent and Gnash is unfortunately not yet matured to reflect the functions of the service can be. An HTML5 version of the site without flash and without proprietary plug-ins would be great, but it is unlikely that the music can be locked up in her gilded cage, but more on that later.

Is funded to the fun book about the possibility of a paid premium account or through advertisements on the website or from time to time by a short advertising jingle when changing a playlist. From 8,33 € / month you get with the premium subscription plus access to the music of the Warner Music record labels with artists such as Madonna, Peter Fox and other mobile applications for Android and iOS, an ad-free web site and the possibility Simfy simfy to use outside of Germany. Simfy between the VZ and networks, there is a cooperative way, so that students can get the premium account more favorable.

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Simfy Player on Ubuntu and Linux

Side of the music streaming Simfy also offers desktop applications for Windows, MacOS X and Linux. This one falls back on the platform-independent Adobe Air runtime environment. For Linux this is unfortunately a coarse problem because Adobe Air for Linux was never one to another and it never gave Adobe a 64-bit version of Air for Linux. To start the player Simfy one must therefore also be used officially orphaned software that is easy to install for many Linux users also still annoying.

Who still want the player to give Linux a chance, which has a 32-bit Linux is relatively simple game. You have to install Adobe Air and the Simfy Player and install it using the package management. Both offer Adobe as well Simfy. Deb and. Rpm packages for most popular distributions on. The Software Center complaining of Ubuntu packages for both the quality of the packages, this information can pass it, since it would involve the compilation of related packets.

Annoying is the installation of the desktop Player on a 64-bit system. Since neither Adobe nor the Air Simfy Player for 64-bit Linuxes are, here you must drive more effort. Simfy link in the support itself on various blogs and forums with appropriate installation instructions. Ubuntu is the most appropriate for their guidance in my eyes on the blog of Daniel. Brings you the script and then executes the following in the directory where the script from …

$ Gunzip simfyInstaller.sh_.gz$ Chmod + x simfyInstaller.sh_$ Sudo. / SimfyInstaller.sh_

It may well be that while a number of libraries are installed. Adobe Air and Simfy be automated by the script downloaded, repacked and installed in accordance with package management, so that the packets also later via the Software Center or Synaptic to uninstall.

Wanted me on the desktop as the desktop environment GNOME3 the player does not. When you start to put some kind of bare windows on the screen, so that I could in Simfy and other programs do nothing more with the mouse. My email to the support in this regard so far, unfortunately, came back with a standard answer for installing Simfy under a 64-bit Linux … Simfy, because I'm kinda with you Schimpfi A startup here should provide better support.

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