What's the story?

Tomahawk was born out of frustration... frustration that the most widely used media players were designed to solve problems of a different era. No longer do we need desktop music players built 10 years ago that jam in CD ripping, label makers, device syncing, into a massive wad of code that takes minutes to even launch. Freed from the shackles of having to worry about supporting legacy use cases, we were able to focus on solving a new set of problems and capitalizing on a new set of opportunities. We thought... "there has to be a better way".

• Why can't I easily listen to all the music I have scattered across multiple computers, at multiple locations, from a single interface?
• Why can I stream my home iTunes library to my laptop when I am at home, but I can't when I am somewhere else?
• Conversely, how come I can stream my co-worker's iTunes library when we are both at the office, but only if we are on the same wireless network (or subnet)?
• When I am reading a website that talks about a song, and I own that song, why can't I play my copy directly from that page?
• Why can't I subscribe to, and import, playlist metadata from all over the web - and then have that resolve against any/all songs that I have access to?
• Why do I have to listen to songs I have on my hard drive, and songs from services I subscribe to, in totally different user experience silos?
• If I am a music subscription service provider, why do I need to incur the costs of streaming you content you already have locally?

From the seed of Playdar springs Tomahawk - a new breed of media player... totally open-source, extensible & fundamentally designed to solve today's problems.

The Team

We are a self-forming team of music/tech nerds, scattered all over the world, that found each other through luck, mutual contacts and music hackdays. We have worked on a couple of things you may have heard of... Last.fm, LimeWire, Winamp and Amarok. We have also worked on a bunch of things you have probably never heard of... like mad scientists, we believe you keep experimenting until you find the magic formula. And we are feeling pretty good about the concoction we are brewing up in Tomahawk - we hope you do too. If you like it, check out the source code and/or APIs and get hacking. Want to get a hold of one, or more, of us? We listen at welisten@tomahawk-player.org.

	muesli
	lfranchi
	domme
	jefferai
	jherskowitz
	hugolm84
	rotzbouw
	sydlawrence
	ramblurr
	And many more (now over 25 contributors)!