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New iPod Checksum Cracked, Linux Supported
An anonymous reader writes "After 36 hours of reverse engineering, the method for producing the checksum on new iPods has been discovered." You can also get linux support working if that's what you crave for your shiny new toy.
I guess someone's been vindicated.
But I do have to wonder, does this violate the DMCA? (not that I care much, being in India). Now if they actually reverse engineer the whole daap:// protocol, I'd be more interested, having more friends who run iTunes (in office) than those who don't - being able to share music was one of the really cool things I used to enjoy with them. But looks like Steve Jobs wanting no DRM for audio was not really for us, but to get the antitrust monopoly stuff off his back *for* iTunes, not really to sell to songs to Joe Usb-Player-User.
Anyway, if you picked Apple - you've picked Apple all the way. There are no half-ways about it and according to a few of my friends - it's seamless and worth the price you pay (I don't agree, but ...).
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
Read the sentence again.
"The iPod, if not the best sounding music player, is easily one of the best."
Means that it is NOT the best sounding music player.
You make yourself look less like an idiot if you actually understand what the original poster is saying.
Actually I was just hoping to catch you, like this.
You are a *fanboy* but of a completely different app. Irrational dislike of something you know little about? Check! Proclaiming that your solution is the most easy/best/far superior without acknowledging that something may be similar? Check! Resorting to calling people names when questioned or proven wrong? Check! Immediately discounting features of other software/products/goods because they don't fit *your* model of ideal? Check!
Hope this helps!
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No you haven't, at least not in this thread.
Look boy, you've been called out and left wanting. I suggest you take your ball and go home now, it's getting embarrassing.
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Actually, IRiver has much better players than Apple, but they are also expensive. I guess a good player (or one hyped by marketing) comes at a price.
They don't want you to get your music anywhere but from a very narrow distribution channel. The iPod integrates very nicely with iTunes, but I won't use iTunes. It doesn't recognize my ogg files, or my flac files, and if I make it recognize my iPod as a hard drive, I lose all the playlist functionality. Not to mention that I don't like the way it tries to organize my media files in a manner I dislike.
Yes, I know that there are 3rd party tools available that will let me do all these things on an iPod, but if I have to do things that are different from the things the manufacturer intended just to make it usable for me, there is a design flaw. Or perhaps, the flaw is in me and I'm just not well-suited to conform to corporate-led consumer culture. There are plenty of people who are more than happy to behave in whichever way this company or that tells them, so I'm the anomaly.
The iPod is a very nice gizmo for people who are ready to sign on to the whole Apple/Record Label "program" and not deviate in any way. I have found my 80 gig iPod very useful, but only by wiping every trace of Apple from the way I use it. For all I know, I'm violating half-a-dozen end user agreements by forcing my iPod to do things for which it was not designed.
For those of us hairpins that would rather do things the way we want to do things, instead of getting in line behind someone else's agenda, the iPod leaves something to be desired.
You are welcome on my lawn.