did not offer file choosing, just playback in order or random "shuffle" and repeat. Different color caps were available for purchase from Dell. The Ditty was discontinued in August 2006. Software Dell software Dell supplies two pieces of software with the purchase of a Digital Jukebox: The "basic" version of Musicmatch Jukebox and Dell DJ Explorer. The Musicmatch Jukebox software is used to copy, manage, and transfer music to the Dell DJ while the Dell DJ Explorer allows for the Dell DJ to be used as an external hard drive and provide more intuitive procedures to renaming, reordering, and simply putting songs on the music player by copying and pasting songs from the hard drive into the mp3 player. Third-party software Beside the Dell included DJ Explorer program that is used to transfer music and data, there are other transfer and track/file management programs Free software: Amarok is a music player for Linux Creative Nomad Jukebox KIO::Slave is an integration driver for KDE which should also work with the Dell DJs. Gnomad is a DJ Manager for Linux Neutrino is another DJ Manager for Linux Nomadsync is a DJ synchronization tool for Linux XNJB is a DJ Manager for Mac OS X 10.3 and later Proprietary software: Deubox Explorer (formerly known as Dudebox Explorer) by Red Chair Software is a transfer program for Microsoft Windows. This $25 program includes a file streamer and with the ability to convert an MP3 player into a file server that is accessible over the Internet. The Deubox Explorer and RedChair software have, as a whole, stopped supporting their customers and can no longer register legally purchased software to use. See also Creative NOMAD Creative ZEN References Digital audio players Dell products Jukebox-style media players