Did you miss the fact that using any version of iTunes later than 6.0 applies DRM that JHymn can't break? You can use QTFairUse to pull the decoded audio out of memory, but it's nowhere near as elegant as messing with the DRM block.
It might support the Mac and Linux, but if you're outside the United States, you get a popup saying:
We're sorry. We have detected that you are outside of the United States. This service is currently only available to residents within the United States.
Oh well. I suppose supporting less than 10% of the world's population is good enough.
I have a 10G touch-wheel iPod (or 2G, if you prefer) and even with old software (it's still running 1.4; I didn't like the look of the menus in 1.5) the iTunes 4.9 podcast pane works perfectly. I see no reason that that's not the case for 3G iPods either.
The only thing I haven't tested is Apple's New Music podcast; that might cause problems with its embedded metadata, but I suspect the iPod will skip it without noticing.
While the BBC News headline is as gung-ho as Slashdot's uncritical echo, the first paragraph contains the key word 'may' ("may have discovered..."), and even the lead scientist admits that some of the planets may not be confirmed.
The BBC article also notes that confirmation may not come "until Fall", not in 'seven days' as you have.
This smells more like a press release than meaningful, peer-reviewed astronomy to me. I suspect it's a piece of "hey, let's keep Hubble" propaganda.
Generally, CDs don't have all the track information on the CD. RealPlayer, Windows Media, iTunes and so on all use a computed identifier of some sort, based on the length of tracks, typically, to look up the CD information from an online database.
Of course, because this means that *someone*, *somewhere*, ended up typing in the data, there are errors in a lot of the data. Most of the CD lookup databases are very bad at handling compiliations, and can have problems with any of the items of metadata other than title and artist (for example, 'year' often ends up as the year the CD is ripped, not the year the music was produced).
There aren't many programs that strip the data that's produced, though. Thankfully.
To be fair, the MusicBrainz article for perl.com (that, full disclosure time, I wrote) doesn't cover as much ground as the Developer Works article, which seems to be going through all the steps needed to write an autotagger in Perl.
However, I was a little dissapointed that Teodor didn't spell out more of his reasoning for his choice of modules. I covered the (then) available Perl mp3 modules for a talk at YAPC::Europe this summer, and if you're not sure which modules to use, I'd suggest having a look at the slides (80K PDF) and notes.
In any case, I look forward to the second part of the article, to see how the script shakes out in the end.
In a way, this is already better integrated than Classic, in that it uses the Aqua look. (Apple could have provided an Aqua theme using the old OS 8 Appearance Manager, but presumably chose not to so as not to reduce the need-to-upgrade factor (as it would inevitably have leaked to Mac OS 9 users)).
The lack of command-tabbing between applications is listed in the Known Issues of the installer, which could imply that Apple will fix this before the release of a final X11. I quote:
Known Issues
X11 window server
OpenGL offscreen rendering is not yet supported.
XInputExtension is not yet implemented. Maya and some GLUT applications require this extension.
Cannot launch OpenGL applications unless the user is root or the current logged in user in Mac OS X.
quartz-wm window manager
X clients do not appear as separate applications, e.g. in the dock and when Command-TAB'ing through applications.
When closing an X11 window, if a native window is next in order, it won't be focused, the next X11 window will be.
App window placement policy currently piles windows up in the top-left, instead of cascading them.
Currently focused window is not checked in the Window menu.
For the point of view of the Lego advocates, see this post which contains a letter written to the New Civil Engineer journal in the UK, by Simon Bennett.
This article also contains links to a longer thread preceeding the letter itself.
Eh? Estuary English is the bastard offspring of Cockney spoken by the people who moved out of East London to places like Thamesmead and Southend (on the Thames Estaury, natch), known for its glottal stops. Very different from the cut glass/RP accent that you very rarely hear, even on the BBC, these days, but Hollywood still imagines we all speak.
Macintouch reported today (2001-06-15) that Apple's mod_hfs_apple.c which fixes the problem is available as part of the Darwin Server source code, but also notes that it has not been tested on any 'client' version of Mac OS X.
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Did you miss the fact that using any version of iTunes later than 6.0 applies DRM that JHymn can't break? You can use QTFairUse to pull the decoded audio out of memory, but it's nowhere near as elegant as messing with the DRM block.
It might support the Mac and Linux, but if you're outside the United States, you get a popup saying:
Oh well. I suppose supporting less than 10% of the world's population is good enough.
I have a 10G touch-wheel iPod (or 2G, if you prefer) and even with old software (it's still running 1.4; I didn't like the look of the menus in 1.5) the iTunes 4.9 podcast pane works perfectly. I see no reason that that's not the case for 3G iPods either.
The only thing I haven't tested is Apple's New Music podcast; that might cause problems with its embedded metadata, but I suspect the iPod will skip it without noticing.
While the BBC News headline is as gung-ho as Slashdot's uncritical echo, the first paragraph contains the key word 'may' ("may have discovered..."), and even the lead scientist admits that some of the planets may not be confirmed.
The BBC article also notes that confirmation may not come "until Fall", not in 'seven days' as you have.
This smells more like a press release than meaningful, peer-reviewed astronomy to me. I suspect it's a piece of "hey, let's keep Hubble" propaganda.
Generally, CDs don't have all the track information on the CD. RealPlayer, Windows Media, iTunes and so on all use a computed identifier of some sort, based on the length of tracks, typically, to look up the CD information from an online database.
Of course, because this means that *someone*, *somewhere*, ended up typing in the data, there are errors in a lot of the data. Most of the CD lookup databases are very bad at handling compiliations, and can have problems with any of the items of metadata other than title and artist (for example, 'year' often ends up as the year the CD is ripped, not the year the music was produced).
There aren't many programs that strip the data that's produced, though. Thankfully.
To be fair, the MusicBrainz article for perl.com (that, full disclosure time, I wrote) doesn't cover as much ground as the Developer Works article, which seems to be going through all the steps needed to write an autotagger in Perl.
However, I was a little dissapointed that Teodor didn't spell out more of his reasoning for his choice of modules. I covered the (then) available Perl mp3 modules for a talk at YAPC::Europe this summer, and if you're not sure which modules to use, I'd suggest having a look at the slides (80K PDF) and notes.
In any case, I look forward to the second part of the article, to see how the script shakes out in the end.
On the London.pm IRC channel, people talk a lot about wanting ponies, especially when people are (or are percieved to be) upset.
"I wanna pony!"
"Here, stroke the lovely pony."
"Pony drop!" - lots of ponies for the terminally stressed.
The origins of the phrase are lost in the mists of time. However, it's possible that someone was acting quite a lot like a seven year old at the time.
The lack of command-tabbing between applications is listed in the Known Issues of the installer, which could imply that Apple will fix this before the release of a final X11. I quote:
For the point of view of the Lego advocates, see this post which contains a letter written to the New Civil Engineer journal in the UK, by Simon Bennett.
This article also contains links to a longer thread preceeding the letter itself.
Eh? Estuary English is the bastard offspring of Cockney spoken by the people who moved out of East London to places like Thamesmead and Southend (on the Thames Estaury, natch), known for its glottal stops. Very different from the cut glass/RP accent that you very rarely hear, even on the BBC, these days, but Hollywood still imagines we all speak.
Macintouch reported today (2001-06-15) that Apple's mod_hfs_apple.c which fixes the problem is available as part of the Darwin Server source code, but also notes that it has not been tested on any 'client' version of Mac OS X.