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Posts Tagged ‘iTunes’

iPod touch wishlist

Now that I’ve had an iPod touch for a little over a week and gotten used to it and what it’s capable of, I have a few ideas about what I wish it could do. These are maybe obvious omissions to its capabilities which would really beef it up as a portable entertainment device. iTunes [...]

Updated Music Library Listing

I updated my online music library today. It’s been overlong. The current stats are 8436 songs, 27.3 days, 56.3 GB. That’s for a Smart Playlist gathering all checked tracks and excluding videos and podcasts. If including the full library, I’d have 12863 items, 41:12:51:32 total time and 82.34GB. This week I had to deselect a [...]

Apple Hates You

I’ve been meaning to get this Nintendo DS homebrew HOWTO out the door in the last month but I keep getting distracted. Right now I’m too pissed to talk about it. Apple’s turned into a complete asshole in the span of about a month. Maybe two. Maybe it’s been brewing for a lot longer than [...]

EMI drops DRM, sells high quality tunes through iTunes Music Store

Kudos to EMI for being the first (major label) out of the gate to sell digital music online through the iTMS without DRM. It’s worked for other music services such as eMusic, Magnatune and Warp Records (who sell some albums in lossless FLAC!) and it’s nice to see them listening to what people actually want [...]

Prodigy vs. The Prodigy

ok, I like The Prodigy as much as the next guy (ok, maybe less) but apparently iTunes (7.1.1) really wanted me to find them in my list. Maybe it’s because I had an album in there without the article in front of their name, or maybe it’s some other issue (I’ve got 528 artists in [...]

The new shape of broadband

From Globetechnology: The new shape of broadband Rogers Cable, like other cable companies, has in fact been implementing something it calls “traffic shaping,” a technology that gives priority to certain on-line activities (such as e-mail, browsing, voice communication) and putting the brakes on other less time-sensitive stuff, such as swapping music files. This has been [...]

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