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iTunes 4.9 To Support Podcasting
WaRrK writes "O'Reilly Radar are reporting that in a demo at D: All Things Digital Conference, Steve Jobs showed off iTunes 4.9, which has support for iPodder like functionality. Although, he was "slightly" dismissive of the phenomena, describing it as "Wayne's World for radio". Also, whilst currently only supporting free content, they are not ruling out paid for podcasting in the future. iTunes 4.9 should be available within 60 days." Yeah, Steve's kinda right on this - podcasting is neat & all, but the breathy overstatement of how it will change our lives is a wee bit overdone.
Unix suport. I tried using gtkpod with my photo and it killed it.
so what's left for itunes 5?
podcasting sux
podcasting rools
When are Apple going to incorporate a decent updater to the iTunes database for its player?
How hard is it to write a process that looks for updates to the music collection on the hard drive?
Indeed, when will it provide a decent enqueue system?
There are so many things missing from iTunes to prevent me making the switch from Foobar/Winamp.
It's almost as if Apple only care about its iTunes music store rather than its player
Everyone should read about apple's shitty customer service.
I just found this editorial link about what happens to apple's normal customers (ie, not the guys getting sent review machines at tom's hardware) http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=665
It's shocking and I can't believe the apple fanboys put up with shit like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_tutori al
When you write something other than yet another "I hates teh Apple" post maybe we'll give half a shit.
I can remember all kinds of arguments and debates I did have, before then, over such things as NP-Complete problems (as related to network topologies), and the like. Although I did not prove NP-Complete (if I had, you'd be reading ABOUT be, not from me), I believe that this is a solvable problem and that I gained at least some insight into the perceptions that underly why it is such a difficult challenge.
The difference between me and George Dantzig? About the same as between be and Neanderthal Man. Neanderthals had the capacity to do a great deal of creative thought, lateral thinking, etc. They didn't, not because they couldn't, but because they never took the steps it would have required.
Likewise, I may very well have the mental capacity to solve all sorts of complex, abstract problems. I've an IQ of 148, my range of knowledge in science and technology is extensive, but I've never really put that intelligence to the kind of use that it is theoretically capable of.
George Dantzig did. THAT, and nothing else, is what makes him the genius and me the Slashdot reader. Which is all credit to him. It is very tough to overcome real or imagined social conditioning that says that we should all be dumb and unthinking, and whilst I don't easily give into that, the difference is that George Dantzig clearly did not give in at all, but rather ignored it completely.
Unsolvable? Hah, mere homework.
Y'know, it wouldn't surprise me if schools expected students to have that kind of attitude, rather than one of "if the examiner is in a bad mood, we'll fail anyway, so we might as well not put in any more effort than we need to, to scrape by", that schools would produce such minds as a matter of course.
"Genius" is not really that rare of a thing for biological reasons. It is rare because we tell the next generation that it is rare. The only two groups who really succeed in life are those who are damn certain they're geniuses and work damn hard to prove it, or who drop out enough not to be affected by such banality.
All it should really take, to produce an entire nation of Einsteins and Dantzigs is to encourage even the briefest glimmer or the slightest spark of thought.
To me, the greatest honor we can give the greatest minds of all time is to allow all the other great minds to be as great as they want to be, rather than trampling them down into the mud as though creative thought were somehow dirty and disgusting, if it isn't in a different century and preferably a different country as well.
Yeah that really sets Apple apart from other companies like Sun, IBM and HP... NOT. All the Unix providers have exactly the same control.
You got it backwards. There are many closed architectures with one company dictating hardware and software. It is in fact the x86 that is unique in that multiple companies provide each part of the computer in an open architecture. And though this solution has it's problems, I think it has shown itself to be vastly superior to a closed system like the Mac.
Also keep in mind that if Apple where the dominating computer provider, they could probably had squished open source efforts like Linux in the cradle by closing specs and making new hardware incompatbile. The X86 may not be pretty, but I'd prefer it over a closed architecture any day.
Ogg Vorbis support might be nice, since it's one of the better streaming formats available...
Listening tests:
HydrogenAudio - The Autov tweaks made it into the official releases. (1.1)
(I can't find anymore at the moment, feel free to add your codec tests. The tests done via HydrogenAudio are generally considered to be solid.
Thanks
Jan
Jan