everyone with ipods just settle down now

[blut wump]

how dare you speak to him this way

Fingers to keyboard is the only way I have. He can like it or lump it.

 

[alien amp pharm]

The iPod will play .wav, .mp3, .mp4 and .aac. It won't play .wma nor .wmv which are each MSoft proprietary formats and restricted by Microsoft.

TC2, there's an option to keep your Library and iPod in sync. You had it enabled. If you disable the option then that won't happen.

I gave a few mp3s to my GF and she said they played fine for a while, then quit playing one day. She has an ipod.

Also, I tried getting a song from her, but it was a mpu or some weird (ipod I assume) format and wouldn't play in my mp3 player.

It's crap like that which doesn't make me feel bad one bit for getting music for free

 

[blut wump]

.mpu is a playlist file, a long-standing standard across many software audio players. .mpu files don't hold any audio data: it's basically a text file with a list of filenames for the songs in the list.

If the mp3s you gave her stopped playing then the most likely explanation is that she deleted them. Maybe unintentionally, as with TC2, by having iTunes set to keep the iPod matched with the Library.

Regarding your earlier comments on games developers. They resent it almost as much as the paying user. The push comes from publishers and often the developer has no choice but to disable features, such as auto-reload, and replace them with purchasable content.

 

[alien amp pharm]

.mpu is a playlist file, a long-standing standard across many software audio players. .mpu files don't hold any audio data: it's basically a text file with a list of filenames for the songs in the list.

If the mp3s you gave her stopped playing then the most likely explanation is that she deleted them. Maybe unintentionally, as with TC2, by having iTunes set to keep the iPod matched with the Library.

Regarding your earlier comments on games developers. They resent it almost as much as the paying user. The push comes from publishers and often the developer has no choice but to disable features, such as auto-reload, and replace them with purchasable content.

When I said mpu format I was just guessing. I don't remember the exact extension. I suppose mpu was just in my head because I've seen it recently.

Whatever extension it was, it wouldn't play in my mp3 player. The way I look at it is if I paid for the song, I should be able to play it in any player and for as long as I want.

With the increase of broadband in homes, the audio and video industry is leaning toward downloads instead of physical media. That isn't neccessarily bad, however they seem to want the downloads to expire and/or only play on select devices. That is crap IMO.

 

[SC4EVA]

I went to go look at these condos over the weekend going up across the street me. A standard feature is that the entire house is set up for surrond sound including an IPOD docking station in the wall.

 

[blut wump]

The problems come from proprietary formats. Apple owns aac and MSoft owns wma and wmv. They each demand a licence fee to incorporate playability on a device and the end result is a divide. I've yet to see a player that doesn't handle .mp3 since it's an open standard.

I use mplayer to convert between formats, if I can be bothered. Mostly I just ignore any audio file not in mp3 format.

In the States I think you have the right to convert your audio between formats. Over here, in the UK, it's still illegal for us even to rip a CD to mp3 or to copy a CD onto cassette.

 

[alien amp pharm]

I went to go look at these condos over the weekend going up across the street me. A standard feature is that the entire house is set up for surrond sound including an IPOD docking station in the wall.

Are you kidding me?
That's ridiculous.

I am select about how I set my surround sound up and where the components are. Plus fuck the Ipod. I can use my own setup to play songs at home.

I bet they jack the price up a few grand for the added features you listed.

 

[WODIN]

thats not funny buddy

You have no sense of humor. How the hell would you know?

 

[blut wump]

You have no sense of humor. How the hell would you know?

I chuckled.

 

[OMEGA]

You have no sense of humor. How the hell would you know?

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"thats not funny buddy" is a trademark Cold Blue saying

thats why I said it........