July 27, 2003


and I did not do Blogathon because...why?

Not a freaking clue. It's the train-wreck syndrome combined with insomnia...I was going to go night flying tonight, since I am not night current anymore. But it was not as nice as recent evenings here in Central Ohio, so I blew it off. Another night perhaps this week.

I did want to comment on one thing, all you fellow Mac Users out there, have you done the music download(s) from Apple? I have done a couple now, the whole new Steely Dan and some Sheryl Crow. After wandering through the local mega-music store, and seeing that they wanted $17.99 "on sale" for the new SD, I decided to try the Apple way...cost me $9.99 for the whole album (ok, I know that's a really old word), and it dumped itself straight onto my iPod. Very cool.

Speaking of cool, I bought a little thing called an iTrip that lets my iPod broadcast onto my car radio...and the quality is damn good. I have an Accord, so the road noise is not too bad, and the iPod/iTrip really does sound good. The iTrip cost me like $30...and it's worth it. I had asked the dealer about gettiing an MP3 player as an option, and they wanted almost a grand. Ummm, no.

Anyhow...cool toys, Windows users, it works for your iPods too, I think. But I don't think you can do downloads yet...
posted by Jo Fish on 07.27.03 at 03:45 AM





Comments:

i too have a mac ( eMac800) and i am thinking to use itunes . i have yet to learn what i can do with it . if it will allow me to download and either burn my own CD or send the music to my stereo system . i am game as it costs much less to get a " CD - only music you like "
i also listen clasical music and jazz . i do not know if it does any good with that part of the music spectrum. i guess so much to learn .possibly spend more time in that than reading too much blogs :)

 posted by: badri on 07.27.03 at 12:22 PM [permalink]

Windows users can't do the iTunes store yet, not until iTunes for Windows is released.

And they can't sync their calendar, addressbook or text notes (as Mac users can)... But the thing is still darn cool on Windows, and it's going to get cooler when iTunes for Windows shows.

 posted by: Rick on 07.27.03 at 02:12 PM [permalink]

Clutter
I haven't even bought my iPod yet, but downloaded this this morning because it was just too cool. It will actually fetch the cover of whatever CD you are playing from the Net or from the iPod database and put it on your desktop. Imagine your whole CD collection spread out on your table with you being able to play any one by just touching the cover.
http://www.sprote.com/clutter/
"Clutter is a small Mac OS X application that lets you put music CDs on your desktop. You can drag them anywhere — they're really windows. Line them up neatly or put them in piles, it's your choice. Each one looks like the real CD's cover, and double-clicking it tells iTunes to play that CD.

Creating these windows is easy. There is a Now Playing window that shows what's currently playing in iTunes. It automatically gets the cover picture from your iTunes 4 database, or looks it up on Amazon.com, and displays it. If Amazon doesn't have a picture, you can find it elsewhere and drag it in from your browser. Or you can scan it yourself and paste it in. Then you can drag the picture out of the window onto your desktop and it turns into a CD window."
Did I mention it was Freeware?

 posted by: Bruce Webb on 07.27.03 at 02:41 PM [permalink]

Thanks for the tip, Bruce...going to check it out.

 posted by: Jo on 07.27.03 at 02:48 PM [permalink]

Just downloaded Clutter...very cool. I need to figure out the playlist funtionality, but it works well. I can see Apple buying this up and puttin it into iTunes, like they did with Audion.

 posted by: Jo on 07.27.03 at 03:04 PM [permalink]


No matter how hard I tried,
I could find no reason for people to create software and then give it out for free.
It costs hell of time to develop something, why not sell it?
There must be some reason.
Brian

 posted by: Brian on 04.10.04 at 07:33 PM [permalink]


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