Please tell me what band that is, so I can do the right thing and steal their music for free for use on the Ipod.Quote:
Originally Posted by sphere79
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Please tell me what band that is, so I can do the right thing and steal their music for free for use on the Ipod.Quote:
Originally Posted by sphere79
I don't understand. Are you playing music from your entirely library? Shuffle randomly plays songs from one playlist at a time. So what you need to do, is create seperate playlists for whatever type of music you want to keep seperate, that way you wont get a genre mix or whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
As of the most recent iPod software for mini and 4G iPods, there is now a "Shuffle Song" option on the main menu. Clicking on that will then start playing your iPod's music library all shuffled up. That way, you can not have your iPod set to shuffle, yet have an easy way to get shuffled goodness.
The problem, as I was saying, was that if you have a great variety of types of music and non-music on your iPod, having an option that shuffles your entire library without exception isn't so useful.
There's also EALC, so you dont need to encode your shit with MS schemes if you want lossless.Quote:
Originally Posted by AstroBlue
It is bizarre that these companies are so paranoid and afraid of their customers that they will not support the player with 70% of the overall handheld market and 95% (!) of the hard-drive based one.Quote:
It says I should copy the .wma's to my digital media player (too bad I have an MP3 player) for use in a digital format and on top of that - sorry, no iPods supported at this time.
I guess I'm offended by that...Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
I just can't tell the difference between a 320 encoded song or higher. It sounds the same to me.
It was the Velvet Revolver album (yes, that's actually the second to last album I've purchased in recent months) but it isn't so much the bands fault as it is the label, and/or the bands unwillingness to make a fuss. The copy of the new Beastie Boys album I bought was worse. In addition to the scheme previously mentioned, the copy I got (a Canadian issue but bought in the states) had purposefully embedded errors in the audio (skips, if you will). The thinking is that PC drive error correction usually isn't capable of ripping the disc correctly, while most home units play it fine. Of course, downloading software will get around this - however Phillips (CD rights holder) won't even allow the labels to call these discs "CD's" because of the erors! My home CD player in my livingroom displayed "not a CD" and I actually had to rip the disc to CD-R just to play it where I wanted too. Also, these discs will wear out earlier and scratch alot easier - I had been waiting for those two albums to come out, paid for them and was treated like a thief.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roufuss
I returned the Beastie Boys disc and got a refund, fuck the Beastie Boys. I've bought every album of theirs at launch and they're supposed to be so "anti-corporate" yet in the end they bow down to them anyway.
One question about iPods - from what I've been reading it seems it isn't possible to just "dock" the unit and have it appear as a drive? In otherwords, I can't just plug it into any old USB port, boot it and move MP3's to and fro? Or, I can but the system needs iTunes? I've also heard if you move your MP3's to the "data" section you can, but then you can't play them on the unit? If someone could clarify that would be great - I guess I've been spoiled by my "ugly" Archos...........
I could be mistaken, but I remember hearing something about it not being the Beastie Boys' decision to put that crap on their latest CD.
Well, they all had some form of copy protection, but the Canadian and UK regions (I think it was UK) had their actual audio data mutated. If they are such activists they could have made a stink - and all I was really looking for was a statement from them addressing their displeasure with the fact that fans were paying money for a shiny disc that won't play in their players. I mean, it warns you right on the back it might not play in your player, especially car players - and if you have a problem let Capitol know. Let them know? How about I "let you know" by never buying one of these "copy-controlled" labeled discs ever again?! There was no real acknowledgement from the band whatsoever, and in an interview with them about music technology and downloading, etc. (I think it was in Wired) done recently there was absolutely NO mention about it at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
So, fuck WMA and fuck the Beastie Boys too..............
I dunno if anyone's mentioned this, but if you decide to get a bigger iPod down the road but want to keep the music you have now...
For Windows systems, it's easy. Make sure the 'use as a HDD' option is on for the iPod. Then pick it using the Windows Explorer tool. Then all you have to do is choose View >> and there should be an option called 'view hidden files.' Then some weird folders should show up - that's where all your stored music is. However its not arranged by Genre, Name or anything like that. But since all you need is to get it off one iPod and onto another, just copy all the hidden folders, paste it onto your comp, and then throw them into the new iPod once it's connected.
If you have a Mac, it's a bit more complicated. You'll need a third party program like iRip to do your bidding.
I hope that kinda helps.
To me, WMA is to Microsoft as Memory Stick is to Sony.
A totally pointless format, done to just monoploize an a section of the market that they don't need to be involved in, a waste of resources, not nearly as good/cheap/useful as the alternatives, but these companies will fight tooth and nail to keep the alive and force them onto consumers.
Fuck WMA, Fuck memory stick, fuck pointless, needless, wasteful propritary formats everywhere.