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RE: Whoa...
As for Palm bundling another mp3 player? What I'd really love to see is Palm and Apple getting together and bringing a version of iTunes out for the Palm. Now that would be a wild combination.
RE: Whoa...
> to see is Palm and Apple getting together and bringing a
> version of iTunes out for the Palm. Now that would be a wild
> combination.
I've been fantisizing about palmOS on my iPod: love the iPod formfactor, harddrive and touchwheel/touch button UI. As these micro drives are available in larger capacities (http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=7189), there can be some room for more PDA guts.
"You got your chocolate in my peanutbutter..."
Marc
P.S. Does the above advert reference mean anything to anyone?
RE: Whoa...
Why? If you really want the iTunes interface on your Palm, just get the iTunes skin for Ptunes and your set! ;)
http://www.pocket-tunes.com/skins/players/iTunes4_v3.shtml
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RE: Whoa...
In regards to iTunes; no, changing the skin on Pocket Tunes is not the same thing as being able to play iTunes songs using Pocket Tunes. Apple will not even respond to inquiries on this, their profits are in selling or licensing Apple hardware/technology.
Pocket Tunes already can stream music via ShoutCast, so this ability is the icing on an already wonderful cake.
RE: Smart Playlists on the Palm
The best I might be able to do is load the Palm with songs from a smart playlist, but not update those songs later with the Palm statistics for playback. But for people like me who just use iTunes for library management and not for listening, then that wouldn't be much of a help.
RE: Whoa...
Apple has licenced their DRM technology to Motorolla to bring iTunes to cell phones, so I can only hope that Palm will be included eventually.
Oh, and the idea to write a conduit that updates the iTunes XML whenever you hotsync? Awesome idea! I wish I thought of it first! :)
RE: Whoa...
RE: Chocolate in my peanut butter
Zodiac2/T616
1.128 gigs under the hood.
Home control
BTW pocket tunes on the Zodiac is amazing- Greatest hardware/ background contol anywhere. Audio Quality competes with anybody.
Zodiac2/T616
1.128 gigs under the hood.
RE: Home control
http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Clicker/>Salling Clicker
RE: Home control
I think only the first version of RP3 is out and it could use some improvements, but it has changed my life. My speakers are in one room, but my stereo equipment is in another. It has been quite a hassle over the years to go back and forth between romms to control my music. Now, I do it wirelessly anywhere in the house over Wi Fi using my Palm Tungsten C. (I put half of my CD collection on my computer to do this. I converted my CD tracks using the FLAC format, which is lossless. I used dbPoweramp to do thid. It is a free download.)
I think you can find RP3 on CNET PDA downloads, or maybe it is on ZDNET. It costs only $10.00.
RE: Home control
Zodiac2/T616
1.128 gigs under the hood.
Great Idea, but...
In fact, once they do, look for iTunes and the like to license their DRM for this type of service. It's closer than you think...
Slimdevices Slimserver
http://www.slimdevices.com/
It actually works off of your iTunes database, which let's you do nifty things such as browse your music collection via their Album covers, which I'm not sure you can do in iTunes itself.
I have a Tungsten T (first one) and have so far been able to listen to my music around my flat via a bluetooth LAN connection to my home pc, at my office in work, over a company firewall and through the D-link DSL Router which I have at home, and lastly, via bluetooth and gprs over an old Siemens S55. It's pretty nifty.
The only Palm software I've found that can play streams is the PocketTunes deluxe version, which I'm loathe to buy, since I've already bought Aeroplayer for mp3 playback, and would hate to have to buy another mp3 software. Does anyone know of any more?
Additionally, you have to have a dynamic dns service if you don't have a static ip address. I used the No-IP one here :-
http://www.no-ip.com
which is free, and is directly supported by the D-Link Router, so I don't have to install any more software on my homepc.
The only drawbacks are, beside the tremendous costs of actually streaming music via gprs, are that to actually choose you music playlists, you have to use the webinterface, so you have to exit Pockettunes, open up your browser, choose the playlist, etc; There's no way to control it from within the mp3 software, but I guess that's asking too much, especially since the whole setup is pretty much free.
Ps, I don't work for any of the companies above. I just read this news article, and after my experiments in getting the same thing up and running with virtually no-cost (before Pockettunes that is), I felt other people should have a go too.
RE: Slimdevices Slimserver
Mmplayer has done streaming audio for quite some time, perhaps even first. The only innovation here is the transccoding of bit rates based on bandwidth. But that's useful only for the GPRS folks. Using Wifi on my tungsten C, I just take them as they are.
What's the use
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