For a minute I was thinking "Oh, so they've got eBooks on the iPod now, have they?"
Sure they do. Gutenpod takes text files and splits them up (it also links them) so they work with iPod's "notes" system. Extra points for using perl;-)
Dear slashdot, a friend of mine claims that his dad can beat my dad. Do any of you have information that could be used to contradict my friend's information on my dad, as I can't be bothered to check? Are there any options one can pursue (anabolics, boxing classed etc), that a kid can use to address the problem this friend has cited?
Since SSL pages aren't saved to disk by default, it's not much of an issue. Besides, if you don't need your cache to persist across sessions, you can probably get by with no disk cache, just memory.
Of course, that doesn't directly answer your question, but this is slashdot after all;-)
If it's a song swapper, they will learn what P2P DOESN'T run on the Mac. BT, emule, DC, Gnutella and FastTrack all have mac clients. What am I missing out on?
Granted, they can shell out more money for the emulation software. Huh? MacMame is free, and AFAIK, Richard Bannister's stuff (nice ports of console emulators) are all free and all you have to pay for is a plugin with extra stuff.
Yes, macs are very much lacking in the games department, but since you're mentioning price, I'd like to point out that you can get a ps2/gc or an xbox for the price of a decent graphics card.
House or a Mac.... hmmmm I chose the house.;=) My home directory can't protect me from hurricanes. Yes, but Steve Jobs' RDF can!
Assuming you have all your music on iTunes AND you can fit all of it on your iPod, it can sync simply by pluging in the cable, no clicking involved. And you get two-way sync for ratings and playcounts as well.
I do understand that the two assumptions, are quite limiting for you and me, but most non-techie people probably don't seem to mind.
It would also be quite easy to write a program/ script that detects removable drives, looks for a file called 'hi-I-am-an-mp3-player.txt' in the root directory and syncs it to c:\music or wherever you store your music.
>Have you no respect for yourself? Since when is helping people having no respect for one's self.
If you take 5 minutes on a windows box to install a firewall, firefox and thunderbird, it's just as secure as anything else. You only need an antivirus to clean up after some idiot, or if you are an idiot yourself.
And before you start ranting about *nix style user rights being inherently more secure and whatnot, last time I checked, all users can delete their own files, so while the system will be fine, saving you an hour or two of reinstalling, what really matters (your music/ movies/ photos/ documents) are no safer than in windows.
My music collection is way to big for any iPod. It's about 65 megs (at 256 kbs). What would happen when the iPod filled up?! 65 megs would fit with no trouble:-P I'm not exactly sure about how the songs to be synced are sorted, I'd assume it'd be alphabetical, by artist.
Since you can't get all of your music to fit the iPod, you should select the second option ("selected playlists only") and make 4/20/40/60 gigs worth of playlists for your iPod to sync with, or just use the third option and drag & drop the stuff you want on your ipod in itunes.You'll lose the two-way sync of ratings and play counts, but since you don't seem to like iTunes it doesn't sound like a big loss.
Also, itunes can only try and sync what it knows about. Since you aren't using it as your main music player, you can try only adding stuff that's meant to go to the iPod to it's library.
Just out of curiosity what are you using to play music? (WMP?)
What?! You mean if I plug in my iPod at my friend's house the songs on my iPod would automatically be deleted?! Only if your friend's iTunes is set to do a full sync with your iPod, read my previous post.
"Insert the CD and hit rip, and plug in the iPod" So EVERY CD you rip is automatically placed on the iPod if it's plugged in?!
And how do you put music that is already ripped onto the iPod? Do you have to re-rip for that?
You can set iTunes to sync either: []Everything, automatically []Certain playlists, automatically []Manually
The first one is the default, so when you connect the ipod to your computer, iTunes makes it so that the iPod has everything that your library has. Ratings and play counts are synced both ways. There is no re-ripping involved, and no renaming/ moving unless you select it (off by default).
Songs present on the iPod, but not on the Library are deleted (choose manual or selected playlists only if you plan on moving stuff TO your iPod from multiple computers, or just copy the mp3s as plain files and upload them as music when you get home if you don't want to lose the autosync)
What's easiest for me is to simply copy my already ripped and organized MP3s over to the device. I don't want to use any third party software to do this, just Explorer. For example, I'd want to copy folder "Coltrane, John - Blue Train" over to the device. Is this possible? Thanks. NO
If it's possible to put a bunch of CDs, each in their own subfolder, onto the iPod, can it randomly shuffle across them? Wrong question;-) iPod doesn't do folders. You can play any album on it's own (either normally, or shuffled) and you can set shuffle to pick whole albums instead of just random songs.
And once I copy those files and folders over, will I be able to copy them back off? I don't want any programs. I just want to treat it as a hard drive. Yes, however they might be slightly renamed (not an issue if you have good ID3s, which you should have to use an iPod effectively anyway), and they will be in different folders in seemingly randon lots of 50. Do get anapod (you can have the installer on the ipod's hard drive).
One last thing. So you do NOT need iTunes at all, right? You might need it to initialise the iPod when you first get it. I can't be bothered to wipe my iPod to know for sure, sorry;-)
>You cannot copy music off of it Open windows explorer View->Options->Files tick "show hidden files and folders".
You'll see a folder called "iPod Control" or something to that effect.
Inside there is a subfolder called Music. Guess what's inside?
There are plenty of programs that can do this with a nicer interface (The music folder has your music sorted in subfolders named F00, F01 etc), but 'hack' is not how I would describe it.
On the iTunes issue, there's a winamp plugin, and then there's anapod explorer from redchair software. And frankly iTunes is rather good.
The first version of iTunes to ship for windows (4.0) would, if you chose the default options move your all your music to 'organise' it (breaking all your existing playlists and music libraries in other players). It has been fixed.
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For a minute I was thinking "Oh, so they've got eBooks on the iPod now, have they?"
;-)
Sure they do. Gutenpod takes text files and splits them up (it also links them) so they work with iPod's "notes" system. Extra points for using perl
The "In Korea..." thing stopped being funny about three hours ago, get with the program.
I've seen worse
Color scheme != User Interface
>I average about 100 pages per hour. Oddly enough, with >Tolkien, that goes up to about 120 pages per hour
;-)
It also helps if you skip over all the songs and poems
Africa is not a country, it is a continent.
Nope, this only works with powebooks.
There is a workaround: 'fooling' the magnet on the lid.
Would you really like to run HL2 on a poor G4 with a cheap 32MB ATI card ?
Let's call it Distributed Reduction-Degradion Of Service: DR-DOS
/me ducks for cover
Overrated? How the heck can I be modded overrated when I haven't even been modded in the first place!
:-)
Heh, that's nothing, I smell "offtopic" coming your (our?) way too
Dear slashdot, a friend of mine claims that his dad can beat my dad. Do any of you have information that could be used to contradict my friend's information on my dad, as I can't be bothered to check? Are there any options one can pursue (anabolics, boxing classed etc), that a kid can use to address the problem this friend has cited?
Since SSL pages aren't saved to disk by default, it's not much of an issue. Besides, if you don't need your cache to persist across sessions, you can probably get by with no disk cache, just memory.
;-)
Of course, that doesn't directly answer your question, but this is slashdot after all
If it's a song swapper, they will learn what P2P DOESN'T run on the Mac.
;=) My home directory can't protect me from hurricanes.
BT, emule, DC, Gnutella and FastTrack all have mac clients. What am I missing out on?
Granted, they can shell out more money for the emulation software.
Huh? MacMame is free, and AFAIK, Richard Bannister's stuff (nice ports of console emulators) are all free and all you have to pay for is a plugin with extra stuff.
Yes, macs are very much lacking in the games department, but since you're mentioning price, I'd like to point out that you can get a ps2/gc or an xbox for the price of a decent graphics card.
House or a Mac.... hmmmm I chose the house.
Yes, but Steve Jobs' RDF can!
Dell can't even be bothered to mention the full weight:
Weight: starting at 6.9 lbs. (2.96 kg) with travel module, 9-cell battery and hard drive1
(Travel module means no optical drive BTW)
OTOH, the 12" ibook is 4.9 and the 14", for comparison 5.9, WITH the optical drives.
Good DVD players (both hardware and software) will remember the time at which the last N discs were stopped, and offer to resume from there.
I stand corrected, then.
In windows you can run stuff as another user, but with many people still using FAT32, there's not much point.
Assuming you have all your music on iTunes AND you can fit all of it on your iPod, it can sync simply by pluging in the cable, no clicking involved. And you get two-way sync for ratings and playcounts as well.
I do understand that the two assumptions, are quite limiting for you and me, but most non-techie people probably don't seem to mind.
It would also be quite easy to write a program/ script that detects removable drives, looks for a file called 'hi-I-am-an-mp3-player.txt' in the root directory and syncs it to c:\music or wherever you store your music.
>Have you no respect for yourself?
Since when is helping people having no respect for one's self.
If you take 5 minutes on a windows box to install a firewall, firefox and thunderbird, it's just as secure as anything else. You only need an antivirus to clean up after some idiot, or if you are an idiot yourself.
And before you start ranting about *nix style user rights being inherently more secure and whatnot, last time I checked, all users can delete their own files, so while the system will be fine, saving you an hour or two of reinstalling, what really matters (your music/ movies/ photos/ documents) are no safer than in windows.
You sound like you are using winamp 2.x Try 5 (or 2.9x) for the music library. As I said, there's also an iPod plugin for it.
Also, I'm pretty sure that players from iRiver, Rio and Archos can do the drag&drop-no-software-required thing.
>It sounds to me like it'd be REAL easy to accidently delete the music on the iPod.
If you have itunes set to autosync, yes. Either choose manual, or make sure you also add to your itunes library everything you put on the ipod.
Anyway, I was actually asking about what software player are you using.
If you actually happen to buy an iPod, tell apple they owe me money!
Short answer: choose 'manual sync', it'll work with all six computers.
My music collection is way to big for any iPod. It's about 65 megs (at 256 kbs). What would happen when the iPod filled up?! :-P
.You'll lose the two-way sync of ratings and play counts, but since you don't seem to like iTunes it doesn't sound like a big loss.
65 megs would fit with no trouble
I'm not exactly sure about how the songs to be synced are sorted, I'd assume it'd be alphabetical, by artist.
Since you can't get all of your music to fit the iPod, you should select the second option ("selected playlists only") and make 4/20/40/60 gigs worth of playlists for your iPod to sync with, or just use the third option and drag & drop the stuff you want on your ipod in itunes
Also, itunes can only try and sync what it knows about. Since you aren't using it as your main music player, you can try only adding stuff that's meant to go to the iPod to it's library.
Just out of curiosity what are you using to play music?
(WMP?)
What?! You mean if I plug in my iPod at my friend's house the songs on my iPod would automatically be deleted?!
Only if your friend's iTunes is set to do a full sync with your iPod, read my previous post.
"Insert the CD and hit rip, and plug in the iPod" So EVERY CD you rip is automatically placed on the iPod if it's plugged in?!
And how do you put music that is already ripped onto the iPod? Do you have to re-rip for that?
You can set iTunes to sync either:
[]Everything, automatically
[]Certain playlists, automatically
[]Manually
The first one is the default, so when you connect the ipod to your computer, iTunes makes it so that the iPod has everything that your library has. Ratings and play counts are synced both ways. There is no re-ripping involved, and no renaming/ moving unless you select it (off by default).
Songs present on the iPod, but not on the Library are deleted (choose manual or selected playlists only if you plan on moving stuff TO your iPod from multiple computers, or just copy the mp3s as plain files and upload them as music when you get home if you don't want to lose the autosync)
What's easiest for me is to simply copy my already ripped and organized MP3s over to the device. I don't want to use any third party software to do this, just Explorer. For example, I'd want to copy folder "Coltrane, John - Blue Train" over to the device. Is this possible? Thanks.
NO
If it's possible to put a bunch of CDs, each in their own subfolder, onto the iPod, can it randomly shuffle across them?
Wrong question
And once I copy those files and folders over, will I be able to copy them back off? I don't want any programs. I just want to treat it as a hard drive.
Yes, however they might be slightly renamed (not an issue if you have good ID3s, which you should have to use an iPod effectively anyway), and they will be in different folders in seemingly randon lots of 50. Do get anapod (you can have the installer on the ipod's hard drive).
One last thing. So you do NOT need iTunes at all, right?
You might need it to initialise the iPod when you first get it. I can't be bothered to wipe my iPod to know for sure, sorry
>Having a 'cool' brand name does not justify charging double the price for the same product.
You can get 20gb mp3 players for $135?
Hook me up!
(ipod=$300-$30 edu discount=$270)
>You cannot copy music off of it
Open windows explorer View->Options->Files tick "show hidden files and folders".
You'll see a folder called "iPod Control" or something to that effect.
Inside there is a subfolder called Music. Guess what's inside?
There are plenty of programs that can do this with a nicer interface (The music folder has your music sorted in subfolders named F00, F01 etc), but 'hack' is not how I would describe it.
On the iTunes issue, there's a winamp plugin, and then there's anapod explorer from redchair software. And frankly iTunes is rather good.
The first version of iTunes to ship for windows (4.0) would, if you chose the default options move your all your music to 'organise' it (breaking all your existing playlists and music libraries in other players). It has been fixed.