Leftie?
Thomas wonders if I'm really a leftie, or a capitalist swine. Well, 99% of my music collection is only on CDs, but I must admit to having 5G of MPEG4 music on my iPod... Maybe when the Linux on iPod project has working power management I'll re-encode it all to Ogg Vorbis.
NP: Groove Salad, Soma FM
Posted by Benni at Tue Jan 17 16:49:43 2006:
Posted by piem at Thu Jan 19 01:46:36 2006:
uh, mpeg4 really? i guess you meant mpeg II layer 3.
about ipod toys, is there a known trick to avoid the files itunes registration crap? as far i have seen, these things behave like a hard drive, or like a player, but not both at the same time! :]
Posted by Ross at Thu Jan 19 09:47:07 2006:
about ipod toys, is there a known trick to avoid the files itunes registration crap? as far i have seen, these things behave like a hard drive, or like a player, but not both at the same time! :]
iPods use MPEG4 with AAC compression, not MPEG 2 Layer 3 (aka MP3).
I really like the iTunes "file registration crap", although it would be nice if Apple documented the file format. It allows faster startup and richer metadata available to the player.
Posted by piem at Sun Jan 22 03:43:57 2006:
I really like the iTunes "file registration crap", although it would be nice if Apple documented the file format. It allows faster startup and richer metadata available to the player.
hi ross.
i wouldn't call faster something that requires me to install a software that doesn't run on any of the machines i have. that it is well integrated on mac, no doubt. beautiful toy too, sure.
but that ipods are crappy because they do not respect standards and have braindead limitations seems very clear to me. the fact that the usb cable must be bought separately just adds on top of that.
and no, i wouldn't await on apple to document any of this. nor would i rely on a patent encumbered algorithm to compress my music.
just my 2ยข...
piem
i wouldn't call faster something that requires me to install a software that doesn't run on any of the machines i have. that it is well integrated on mac, no doubt. beautiful toy too, sure.
but that ipods are crappy because they do not respect standards and have braindead limitations seems very clear to me. the fact that the usb cable must be bought separately just adds on top of that.
and no, i wouldn't await on apple to document any of this. nor would i rely on a patent encumbered algorithm to compress my music.
just my 2ยข...
piem
