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UPDATE March 26: After nearly a two month stint of being offline at the iTunes Store, the Star Trek TOS is back. The complete first season is available in its original broadcast form. Additionally, newly remastered episodes from the first season are available in their own section. iTunes is still the only source for them in their uncut form. :: Star Trek tv shows are suddenly missing from ...

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Volkher at livingwithmusic posted the other day a rather thoughtful treatise against digital music files as a medium. He does a good job of bringing up all the relative shortcomings of abandoning physical media, including the effort required to encode/download and properly organize/tag files as well as the burden and cost that goes into storage and preventative backups. And he's right on the money about picking ...

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The ultimate in iTunes statistics and library analysis is once again live and on faster/better hardware. Yes, my music-listening friends, the iTunesRegistry is back and better than ever. Faster processing, more graphs, interesting facts. The works. It's open source to boot. The site runs on PHP+MYSQL and now you too can grab the code, muck with it and enhance it on your own. Mac users can probably run ...

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The first in a multi-part series dealing with speeding up the play rate of podcasts so you can listen to them faster and fit more subscriptions into your schedule. Part One: The problem at hand and a simple computer-based solution. UPDATE: Toward the end of this article, I point to some scripting techniques to automate the acceleration of podcasts with QuickTime. Well, Mac users, it's your lucky ...

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Text-based games for the iPod, known generally as iStories, are nothing new. Using the basic HTML support found on device's Notes feature, some people have been putting together text-based adventures for a couple years now. Heck, even I sketched out the beginning of a story a while back, but never completed the project. In its most basic form, the idea is to load a series of inter-connected ...

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Note: The offer from iTunes has expired. If you've been searching for a reason to try out the iTunes' much-promoted movie service, here's one that might just persuade you. Free film: Good Morning Babyoffer expired. Description from the store: A confused woman struggles between two loves-a love for her so-called future husband and a love for a new found home. Falling off her envisioned map of life, she tries to ...

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Like clockwork, each January means the end of Christmas decorations, the onset of the full desolation of winter, learning the motor-memory of writing a new year and, of course, a sudden, massive hard drive failure. Every year since 2001 it has happened to me, always to my external music drive and always in January. It's quite comical, if you have the right sense of humor. Then it should ...

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Something odd happened to me the other day while listening to my iPod. I was enjoying a bootlegged version of Jerry Goldsmith's magnum opus, the score to the first Star Trek motion picture. One of the tracks is raw recording session featuring two takes of the now-famous main title. The theme was just getting going when, at the 1:26 mark, it just stopped playing. The music went ...

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So Webomatica tagged me and I guess I'm now "it" for the five things chain blog that's been making the rounds. The idea is for a blogger to post five items of potentially new information about themselves. I guess it's to help readers gain more insight into the writer. So, I'm game. Number One I back-date my songs in iTunes' Date Added field. If I'm encoding a CD ...

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