August 29, 2007
Hey I just learned about this great acoustic music podcast, and best of all they are all LIVE! I’m a lover of live concerts for over 10 years collecting way too many cassette tapes cds torrents to count! But now I can download a few acoustic podcasts and give them a listen while I work/walk/whatever.
The podcast is from Acoustic Long Island (http://www.acousticlongisland.com/). The live podcasts occur every Wednesday night from the living room of a historic 19th century mansion in St. James, Long Island, NY. The sound quality is amazing and the singer/songwriters interact with the crown in a very close and intimate setting.
Tonight I’m listening to two shows:
Mieka Pauley - June 20th & David Berkeley - May 16th
make that three! give a listen to Patrick Fitzsimmons on May 23rd, good stuff!
I would give David’s show a listen. He’s got a laid back, mellow voice that is great music to listen to.
I couldn’t make this any easier…click the image to subscribe to the podcast!
June 7, 2007
borrowed blog post from ProfessorIpod
real article here
June 4th, 2007 by professoripod
The new iTunes Plus songs do not have copy protection but still contain your email address and other private information. This information is in the metadata in the music file. If one of your iTunes songs is placed on a P2P site, your personal information will be available for everybody to see. This is great as it is a resistance to people giving all their files away. However, if your music is stolen (through spyware or other means), you might be considered a pirate!
Soon people will release automatic methods for doing this, but you can do it right now with currently available software.
1. Download AtomicParsley for windows or mac.
2. Uncompress it into your music directory
3. Open a command line box in windows (RUN -> cmd.exe) or open the terminal in OSX
4. View all the metadata with the following command:
atomicparsley song.m4u -t
Here is some example output:
Atom “©nam” contains: Everybody Whatever
Atom “©ART” contains: Yoyou
Atom “aART” contains: Yoyou
Atom “©alb” contains: Sandballs for Diggers
Atom “gnre” contains: Rock
Atom “trkn” contains: 1 of 14
Atom “disk” contains: 1 of 1
Atom “©day” contains: 2003-02-14T08:00:00Z
Atom “pgap” contains: 0
Atom “apID” contains: xxxx@xxx.com
Atom “cprt” contains: ℗ null 2002
Atom “cnID” contains: xxxxxx
Atom “rtng” contains: Inoffensive
Atom “atID” contains: xxxxxx
Atom “plID” contains: xxxxxx
Atom “geID” contains: xxxxx
Atom “sfID” contains: United States (143441)
Atom “akID” contains: 0
Atom “stik” contains: Normal
Atom “purd” contains: xxxxxxxxx
Atom “covr” contains: 1 piece of artwork
5. If you want to remove one of the atoms, using the following command:
atomicparsley song.m4a –manualAtomRemove “moov.udta.meta.ilst.ATOM”
For example, to remove the email address, one would do the following…
atomicparsley song.m4a –manualAtomRemove “moov.udta.meta.ilst.apID”
6. The new file stripped with the information will be created as a new temp song file. Test it in iTunes to make sure it still works before deleting your original.
7. If you want to remove several pieces of metadata at once, you can stack commands like the following:
atomicparsley song.m4a --manualAtomRemove moov.udta.meta.ilst.cnID" --manualAtomRemove "moov.udta.meta.ilst.atID" --manualAtomRemove "moov.udta.meta.ilst.apID"
August 1, 2006
There’s no disputing that iTunes boasts an excellent feature set right out of the installation package. However, if you really plan to stretch its powers to the max, you may want to think about downloading a few third-party applications.
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July 31, 2006
these guys wrote up a good article on some tricks or hacks for the iPod.
Intrepid technophiles have found ways to hack iPods, giving them the ability to do much more than play music. In this article, we’ll explore why iPods can be hacked, which hacks are our favorites and where to go to learn more.
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