Nathan Freitas has just announced the 1.0 release of ION, a desktop open-source media/podcast player that supports an array of audio/video/image file formats. ION works on *nix, Windows, and Mac platforms.

A video tour of ION and screenshots are available, or you can try ION right now via Java Webstart (~5MB):

From Nathan:

“Written in Java, available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux/Solaris/*nix, uses ROME and the Modules subproject heavily, and is licensed under the Mozilla Public License.”

“… Learn about our playlist sharing service at http://iondb.com … Drag and drop any posts or media from other feeds or searches into a custom playlist… This is accomplished by ION being not only a parser/consumer of feeds, but also a generator - remixing items from other feeds into a new feed which is published up to our servers as RSS.”

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