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Comments on: Sold my Soul to Apple-O https://www.robohara.com/?p=1448 The Adventures of Rob, Susan, Mason and Morgan O'Hara Wed, 13 May 2009 20:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Brent https://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1221 Wed, 13 May 2009 20:18:32 +0000 http://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1221 I am typing this on a touch in Amsterdam right now. The interface is the best out there. We have 100% DRM free music on ours. It is a common misconception that you can’t do that.

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By: Rob O. https://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1220 Tue, 12 May 2009 19:43:11 +0000 http://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1220 If you embed the album art right into the MP3 file rather than simply associating it, I believe it’ll show up in Cover Flow regardless of how you got the file onto the iPod. And doing also makes the album art show up when any number of players (on your PC) are used rather than being stuck with only using iTunes.

When I first encountered Cover Flow, I was just sure that it was going to bring about an album art renaissance, but I’m not sure that I’ve seen that happen yet. What do you think – is Cover Flow revitalizing album cover design within the music industry?

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By: ubikuberalles https://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1219 Tue, 12 May 2009 17:23:52 +0000 http://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1219 Heh. I own two classic Macs, a couple Apple II gs’s and an iMac G3. All bought used. Which means, I guess, I’m still an Apple virgin.

I came close to getting an iPhone but I got a Google phone instead. I use it as my music player too. I just copy the mp3 files into my phone via USB cable (or just take the mini SD card out and copy it to the card). No DRM on my mp3’s and I usually get my MP3s from Amazon, ripping CD’s or free download from the web. I hates the iTune program. I tried updating it on my iMac and froze and wrecked the system. I had to reinstall the operating system. Thanks a lot, Apple!

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By: Greg Kennedy https://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1218 Tue, 12 May 2009 14:04:19 +0000 http://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1218 Nice. Our first Apple product was a Mac Mini I got by filling out one of those “get a free Mac Mini” offers – Kassi needed a new computer, so it’s hers now. She also got an iPod for Christmas but we don’t use it much… I need to get one of those FM hookups for the car and then it will probably start being used regularly.

I also picked up a Mac LC from Freecycle a while back, but it won’t turn on and I haven’t been able to figure out what is wrong with it. I wish it did because it would be a lot of fun to put System 6 on the thing and screw around with it, but I have way too many other things that need my time instead. Besides I’m really an Atari guy at heart so when I go retrocomputing I dig out the 130XE.

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By: juba https://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1217 Tue, 12 May 2009 13:35:47 +0000 http://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1217 ah, i see you meant opening the program AND copying an album. yeah, itunes is a hog. i’ve solved that by yeah, never closing it. i actually quite like itunes, once you get into the smart playlists it’s a whole new experience. say you want punk rock from 1977 with the word “fart” in the title, you’re set. and it updates automatically. a must when you have too much music and you listen all day.

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By: juba https://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1216 Tue, 12 May 2009 13:29:31 +0000 http://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1216 two minutes to copy an album to an ipod using itunes? huh? i’ve had many ipods over the years, it didn’t even take that long on an old pc with usb 1.0.

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By: Earl Green https://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1215 Mon, 11 May 2009 23:15:32 +0000 http://www.robohara.com/?p=1448#comment-1215 That’s funny – the IIc was the LAST Apple product I bought! (For $10 some a few years after it came out after the whole world went PC, I might add, so maybe that doesn’t count.)

As for the (almost) modern music player scene, I guess the spirit of the Franklin ACE 1000 is still with me – I’ve felt no particular urge to upgrade beyond my HiMD minidisc player. (Then again, I don’t quite go in for the long distance driving that you do.) I was about to question why the lack of album covers was necessarily a big deal, but I guess if you’ve got a big honkin’ screen, you need it to show something.

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