Napster was stable, and wasn't full of spyware. While you couldn't multithread a download off of 10 capped DSL users, you wouldn't have to worry about it randomly crashing on you or installing a bunch of cydoor crap in the background that you'd have to patch to get rid of.
Napster WAS implemented well the first time around. WinMX is the only one that comes close to its coding elegance.
I know it's slightly redundant, but I figure in this thread it'll get more OGG-related attention.
The Soul Player is firmware-upgradeable, so if they see enough people wanting Ogg Vorbis support, they can write an upgrade to have the thing read (and play!) the format, and all you'd have to do is burn the update to a CD-RW.
Or, alternatively, some ambitious hacker-type person could figure out the firmware format, and write their own Soul Ogg decoder.
Personally, in terms of money per storage space, I like my MPTrip clone.. I rarely ever listen to more than 11 hours of music at a time, and this thing works wonderfully. Despite the warning on the page, it actually does read CD-RW's, and when I have to change it, it takes about 9 minutes and I'm done. Best of all, this thing is er.. competitively priced, and it's a very high-quality first-gen mp3/cd player.
If you're willing to spend a bit more and don't mind not having Duren686's Personal Seal of Approval, you can try the AVC Soul Player. I've never used one, but I've heard nothing but good about it, and as an added bonus, the upgradeable firmware gives it the possibility of reading OGG files.
95% of all the music on my CDs is legally free for downloadover the internet, and the rest is stuff that you couldn't find on a commercial CD if you tried, because it is released by the original artist/remixer over Napster, WinMX, etc. While I have in my posession some pirated music, a lot of the stuff I got off of Napster was 100% legal in one way or another (example: my mp3 of Weird Al's Amish Paradise is legal because I had the tape and not the CD at the time, thus I couldn't [easily and with comparable quality] rip my own MP3 to put on my comp. example2: The Tetris Techno Remix that starts with a synth-voice saying "Let's play some Tetris motherfucker" is, last I checked, not a commercial song. Example3: pulse120's red planet is free for download at his mp3.com artist page) In other words, my use of Napster has largely not detracted from CD sales, and yet the RIAA doesn't let me use it to get free music that I couldn't find anywhere else. Leave it to the people in power to screw everyone else over.
They're doing this to protect the children. If the Chinese get DVD technology, Chinese high school children will watch the Matrix. This will inevitably warp their mind and make them get trenchcoats and guns, and shoot up their schools.
Let's try a hypothetical situation. Say you have some old stuff to get rid of, and you have a garage sale. Someone comes up and buys a lava lamp for $20.
Problem: In a previous transaction, they got a fake bill, and are using that bill to pay for your lava lamp. You have no way of knowing until you decide to buy a CD and are confronted with "Sorry, sir, but your twenty is fake."
I was fooling around in VB (yeah, be quiet) recently and wrote a program that takes three words (username, keyword1, keyword2), combines them, and munges the result to generate an alphanumeric password that no-one will ever guess, and even if you gave it to them they'd forget it after a few min.
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Napster was stable, and wasn't full of spyware. While you couldn't multithread a download off of 10 capped DSL users, you wouldn't have to worry about it randomly crashing on you or installing a bunch of cydoor crap in the background that you'd have to patch to get rid of.
Napster WAS implemented well the first time around. WinMX is the only one that comes close to its coding elegance.
What radio have you been listening to?
*cough*.
I know it's slightly redundant, but I figure in this thread it'll get more OGG-related attention.
The Soul Player is firmware-upgradeable, so if they see enough people wanting Ogg Vorbis support, they can write an upgrade to have the thing read (and play!) the format, and all you'd have to do is burn the update to a CD-RW.
Or, alternatively, some ambitious hacker-type person could figure out the firmware format, and write their own Soul Ogg decoder.
Personally, in terms of money per storage space, I like my MPTrip clone.. I rarely ever listen to more than 11 hours of music at a time, and this thing works wonderfully. Despite the warning on the page, it actually does read CD-RW's, and when I have to change it, it takes about 9 minutes and I'm done. Best of all, this thing is er.. competitively priced, and it's a very high-quality first-gen mp3/cd player.
If you're willing to spend a bit more and don't mind not having Duren686's Personal Seal of Approval, you can try the AVC Soul Player. I've never used one, but I've heard nothing but good about it, and as an added bonus, the upgradeable firmware gives it the possibility of reading OGG files.
IE6 shows my custom 404 error message in the iframe (since 127.0.0.1 points to the http server on my computer)
Real (as opposed to RealTM) viruses are coded well.
The really strange thing is that I've had MP3s skip in my portable MP3 player, but that's only because it is the most horribly cheap thing ever.
95% of all the music on my CDs is legally free for download over the internet, and the rest is stuff that you couldn't find on a commercial CD if you tried, because it is released by the original artist/remixer over Napster, WinMX, etc. While I have in my posession some pirated music, a lot of the stuff I got off of Napster was 100% legal in one way or another (example: my mp3 of Weird Al's Amish Paradise is legal because I had the tape and not the CD at the time, thus I couldn't [easily and with comparable quality] rip my own MP3 to put on my comp. example2: The Tetris Techno Remix that starts with a synth-voice saying "Let's play some Tetris motherfucker" is, last I checked, not a commercial song. Example3: pulse120's red planet is free for download at his mp3.com artist page) In other words, my use of Napster has largely not detracted from CD sales, and yet the RIAA doesn't let me use it to get free music that I couldn't find anywhere else. Leave it to the people in power to screw everyone else over.
They're doing this to protect the children. If the Chinese get DVD technology, Chinese high school children will watch the Matrix. This will inevitably warp their mind and make them get trenchcoats and guns, and shoot up their schools.
Let's try a hypothetical situation. Say you have some old stuff to get rid of, and you have a garage sale. Someone comes up and buys a lava lamp for $20. Problem: In a previous transaction, they got a fake bill, and are using that bill to pay for your lava lamp. You have no way of knowing until you decide to buy a CD and are confronted with "Sorry, sir, but your twenty is fake."
I was fooling around in VB (yeah, be quiet) recently and wrote a program that takes three words (username, keyword1, keyword2), combines them, and munges the result to generate an alphanumeric password that no-one will ever guess, and even if you gave it to them they'd forget it after a few min.