Archive for the 'hacktacular' Category
Friday, March 14, 2008
Lately I've been on a tear with audiobooks, managing to cram a number of books in between my regular music and podcast listening. The sudden upswing in interest has prompted me to renew my investigation of the problems the 5G (fifth generation) model iPod has with long-playing books. As I noted last summer, the 5G has troubles with homemade m4b files (bookmarkable AAC) longer than a ...
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aac, audiobook, ipod
Monday, September 17, 2007
Apple unleashed iTunes 7.4.2 today, mostly to cripple efforts by the iPhone community to customize their ringtones without having to pay an additional $.99 to do so. On that topic, one could argue that users are well within their Fair Use rights to repurpose (format shift) into a ringtone the music they've already paid for. I'm not an iPhone user nor do I intend to be, ...
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iphone, itunes, ringtones, sorting
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Apple has really screwed up with the new sorting behaviors introduced in iTunes 7.3 and it's making a lot of people seriously unhappy. And, honestly, I've NEVER been mad at Apple for anything in my 25+ years of history with the company (annoyed at times, but never mad), but the more I think about this the more pissed I get. For those just joining the story, ...
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apple, iphone, ipod, itunes, mac, sorting
Friday, August 24, 2007
...and managed to sully my iPod too. And the more I think about it, the more pissed off I get. What Apple has done defies all standard convention, is completely arbitrary and makes ab-so-lute-ly zero sense whatsoever.
Allow me to go on.
I had put off updating my iTunes to 7.3.2 until a couple days ago. With all the time and energy I invest into pruning and ...
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apple, compilations, composer, ipod, itunes, sorting
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Not all audiobooks, mind you, just homemade ones; downloads from the iTunes Store and Audible seem to work fine. The story goes like this...
My carpool ended a couple weeks ago, as my riding buddy resigned to take another job. I'm going to miss the amity, conversation and, of course, the gas and mileage savings, but my solo commute will now give me the opportunity to invest ...
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apple, applescript, audiobook, ipod, itunes, umberto eco
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
When Travis covered ...Baby One More Time as tender British comfort rock, it was cute.
[audio:070715BabyOneMoreTime.mp3]
When Jonathan Coultan did Baby Got Back as a singer/songwriter folk troubadour, it was funny.
When The Gourds played Gin n' Juice in up-the-mountain bluegrass style, it was just bizarre.
Play:
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alanis morissette, britney spears, covers, franz ferdinand, jenny owen youngs, jonathan coulton, lcd soundsystem, nelly, nirvana, radiohead, sir mix a lot, snoop dogg, travis, video
Saturday, April 28, 2007
I spent a portion of this Saturday going through my extended archive of music, the stuff that's not in my central, everyday iTunes library. Most of those files are a bit old and for either quality or tagging reason, they've been left unincorporated. Some of these songs have been sitting untouched and unlistened to on cds and hard drives for years.
So I've decided to start sorting ...
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bjork, download, live, mp3, pj harvey, rolling stones, video
Thursday, April 26, 2007
OK...
CD and vinyl album covers generally come in the shape of a square. The iPod's screen is a 4:3 rectangle. It makes sense that when displaying album art at full screen, the display would be limited to the short edge of the display, thus the white borders on the left and right sides.
So my question is, why, when I have album art that is not square, ...
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album art, ipod, the dismemberment plan
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
The Supreme Beings of Leisure debut has the distinction of being one of two albums that I've ever purchased after hearing less than a minute of music from it. The other is The Dandy Warhols Come Down. I bought it shortly after listening to snippets of a couple of songs at a Barnes & Noble kiosk. Incidentally, it's entirely possible that themodernista sold the cd to ...
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portishead, propellerheads, supreme beings of leisure, the dandy warhols
