Yes, unfortunately the rumor sites are all saying that the indies have backed out of iTMS Europe... Crosses fingers and hopes.

Bob

I don't see what all the fuss is about. Would you really buy music from the internet in mp3 format? Its cheaper but lower quality, and you don't get the cd case and all the artwork etc which is quite nice sometimes. Also its nice to get a CD the post and open it and then open it up all quickly and have it all new inside and then put the cd on your stereo. I quite like having to get to change CDs every 50 minutes or so also. (I'm sounding a bit lame/obsessive here).

Would you ever really buy music in tape format when LP is so much better quality and you get the pretty sleeves?

Everyone has their own way of using music so more choices in the way you get it is typically welcomed. I'm one of those people who'll buy a CD, rip it, put it away and never touch it again. I have all my music collection stored on my server and when I want to listen to anything in my collection, it's all of about 10 seconds of searching away. I can create custom compiliations in minutes, I can just stick my entire collection on shuffle, or I could listen to a particular artist, genre or album as the mood takes me.

So, yeah, I'd buy music from the internet, but only if the bitrate was higher than what is typically offered. I also have an iRiver and refuse to touch WMA (Out of principle), meaning I'll only buy something like 160kb Ogg or 192kb MP3 (If it's encoded with LAME using the right settings).

I have no idea, will the iRiver touch AAC (assuming it's been de-fairplayed)?

Bob

Alas no, but it supports a superior format anyway.

I've had a look at the selection on iTMS europe, and it's a bit thin - the lack of Indie labels means that from a straw poll of my CD collection, less than half of it is currently available...

Ye Gods, Linux spam :(

I know - what is the world coming to? :-)

i'd like one pretty please: valmont {a}t wildstar dot net :) check out my blog too :D

-chris

I'd love one if you've got one going.

do you still have an invite ? can i have it please ?

Darn the luck, there are already people here. Oh well, if you ever get any extra, I'd like one. Thanks :)

hey man, i see there are 4 people already here BUT if you do get another invite that wold be awesome of you if you gave it to me :/

That would be a terabyte now :)

Bob

Or not.

(Look, I can get my name in the right place!)

Now now children! ;-)

Yeah baby! A Glasto ticket is coming my way too!

I think we have enough for a little YSC tent circle :-)

Yeah baby! A Glasto ticket is coming my way too!

I think we have enough for a little YSC tent circle :-)

Damn it! Your site did a bit of an alound.com on me there Dave!

Putain.

Michael, that's not very nice is it?

no its not so nice :(. it was more in the sense of "fuck" than the sense of "whore" though. I am very pleased for Dave that he has glastonbury tickets but am slightly disappointed I shan't be going.

its interesting how using "Michael" rather than "Mike" makes me feel worse about what I did.

Here you find new screenshots + source code:

http://www.zpravy.net/misc/google-redesign/

Blog spam strikes again.

I though dzwonki polifoniczne was one of Dave's friends.

Yeah, MT-blacklist needs to get something that can automatically update your blacklist. All these get through 'cos ATM I have to manually update it :-(

Radio 1 has recover from their loss somehow. But misses MnL, there is a big void where they once were. Now filled with 2 w*nkers who think they are funny...

I wonder if MS will do a Valve and push back Longhorn to 2007 because of those evil hackers and what they'll do to the code. Not that I have no respect for Valve or anything...

BTW, amusing fact for the day, Windows 666 + 1337 = Windows 2003, thus demonstrating it was made by the evil 1337 ;)

Two things:
1) Damn this code is buggy - grep -r -i 'BUGBUG' source
7101
2) The people at Wine are gonna be more than quite chuffed with this... it's gonna make their life a whole lot easier.

Bob

Don't be stupid Tom. Nobody with any sense is going to go anywhere near that source code.

With comments like these, what hope is there for the code ?

No Darren, they aren't going to use it to work out exactly what stupid assed thing windows actually does rather than what is published... Sure they aren't going to use any of the code (unless they're particularly stupid), but they sure as hell will be trawling through it.

Bob

No, Tom, they won't because they're not stupid. There's no way in Hell anyone on the Wine team is going to be stupid enough to put themselves at risk by even having access to a copy of the Windows source code.

And so it begins.

Ahh, the wonders of prescience...

from you rlink:

"The Pixies, acclaimed as the most influential pioneer of the late '80s alt/rock movement, and who effectively blazed the path for groups like Nirvana, Radiohead and Pearl Jam to rise to superstardom,"

I haven't listened to very much pixies but I quite like what I've heard... but... how is allowing nirvana and Pearl Jam to eist worthy of praise? they're both shit. And Radiohead were shit until they stopped sounding like a shite band (sometime around The Bends which is still a bit shit as its a bit rawwk but i like it anyway). End of my random rant.

Mike

PS go and see Mum and Lambchop!

Ha! The official press release says they're co-headlining Coachella. Didn't I tell you no-one would want to be billed above the Pixies?

Dave, your website crashes IE 5.2 on OSX. I was using it in a computer room, not on my computer which is far too nice to have such a horrible piece of software on it. Is anybody else good playing galstonbury? I've never noticed the glastonbury/gallstonebury thing like that before. hmm.

Mike

Cool, I can take out Microsoft! - I have absolutely no idea how I've managed that :-)
The glastonbury thing is just a rumour atm, but it's looking likely (hopefully)

mmmm, glastonbury. this year i'm definitely going. definitely. even if i have to kill a teenage mosher to get a ticket. not that i'll have to. i hope not anyway.

Wow, I guess you've got a long way to go before Apple will have to start paying you. I quite like the content of slashdot on Robotfist, it's much cheerier when it's all red and cartoony.

I feel dirty.

oh they're adorable. but 1000 songs just seems stupidly tiny nowadays. even though my walkman can only hold roughly 30 songs at a time.

This is going to sound bitter, but I don't like them. They're funny looking . . . although I guess the silver one's not bad, maybe I just need to have a play with one. Micro Anvika are already taking pre-orders you know.

Hmm, I wouldn't call it a new generation of iPod - it's a new product. The 15, 20 and 40 gig ones are essentially identical to my generation (except for the HDD sizes), and mine is only one gen newer than yours.

Well, it's almost got the same name, has the same firmware, electronics and ports; the only changes are the outside cosmetics and a smaller HDD - If the change from a physical rotery wheel to touchpad is considered a new generation, and the change to a line in/out and USB2.0 support is also a new generation, then I think a size shrink and a different shell are also a generation, not a new product!

Perhaps you could consider it a fork :)

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The colours are all a bit sickly. York told me i could get a £500 hardship loan (not sure why they think i deserve it...) so maybe i'll get one... probably silver. Or i could get a real one. are they even coming out in the UK? I haven't seen them on the apple uk website. 1000 songs isn't enough really, i havr 2213.

Mike, the 4GB miniPod is $249, whereas the 15GB iPod is $299. Unless you really want the smaller iPod, it's probably worth scrimping the extra few bob for a 15GB.

I think that darren hit what I was trying to say on the head - the iPod mini is a new product, the iPod it's self is essentially the same as the last load.

I know you tried, with all the punctuation and stuff, but I don't think you quite managed to get across the tone of absolute disgust in which you'd have to read the word "Potter" in order to replicate the way you say it : )

Nice holly too, v.festive.

Heh, today Amazon.co.uk decided to recommend a Liberty X album to me. I think they're mocking us, seeing how far they can push is before we crack and launch mortar att - ahem, got a little carried away there :)

Ah, but the question remains - would either of them be wearing yellow shoes?

only clowns and fishermen wear yellow shoes. I don't think wellington boots are strictly shoes. This is obviously some obscure matrix reference i don't get. I've got 24 on dvd.

incidentally Dave, i was wondering if you can help. I've installed apache2 and MySQL on my mac and i'm trying to make movable type work on it now (so i can make whole websites on my computer before i upload them. and (geek alert) keep a literature database of all the papers i've read on my PC (can't use excel and dont have a database program). why wont movable type work?

for some bizarre reason i wrote my name as Dave in that last comment. I'll stop spamming you with comments now dave. feel free to delete them.

Well thank goodness for that, I thought the grammar Nazi comment was aimed at me!

i'm not a grammar nazi. see i don't even use capital letters.

But only on the internet :-)

I know I said bad things about being smug before, but I think it's okay if it's directed at Microsoft. Makes you proud to be a Mac user. (oh God I sound like I write for MacUser or something . . . help . . . find English students . . .)

You read MacUser? I think you're a geek Sarah. ITs a good job we're separated by a couple of largeish seas and two scandinavian countires, I probably wouldn't have had the guts to put foward that sentiment if we were present in the same room.

iTunes for windows looks very nice, but it has a very stupid bug. When you start it up the first time it asks you if you want it to "manage" (rename and move) your music collection, and it does it whether you click "yes" or "no". Pretty dumb.

Incidentally, isn't movable type really good Dave? I have all of the writing on my pages done through it and it makes it much better.

Yes, movable type is very nice, but I never got the bug you talked about on Win iTunes - strange...

I'd be more concerned about the bug that renders your machine unbootable...

However I've not got Win2K, so I'm ok :-)