New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

tbf it says 'sometime' in 2011, and even if it is one month-ish that still includes that 'christmas' thing

the point is who cares

PSYCHED TO PURCHASE BEATLES AAC FILES VIA ITUNES STORE FYI SLOK1

better hurry 2011 is coming

GOD DAMN IT BEATLES

Apple TV's a bit of a half-baked pile of shit innit.

Apple TV will make sense in a couple of years when Jobs finally figures a way to lock the internet in his proprietary box.

Still think it would have been one of the most magnanimous actions in history had the Beatles offered its entire catalog for free download in modest quality when they released the remasters. Like, "this is for everyone, if you want it." Decades of ill-will would have instantly evaporated. But no, the dicking around continues unabated.

yes, so much ill will towards the beatles

h8 beatles

has anyone used an apple tv btw - thinking abt getting one for my dad so he can stream netflix / access itunes

do not let him on itunes if he hates the beatles, because the beatles are on there and they are charging for their albums

u r rite :(

It finally occurred to me that I may slowly be turning hipster. I collect Penguin Classics and literature in trade paperback format. I like to attend, and excel at, all the thespian classes (film, theater, literature) in college and when I have free time and cash I like to hang out around independent music shops, used record stores and used book stores. How long before I ditch my beloved Acer for an iPad?

5/10, pretty good

i have an apple tv (a new one), it is great, best $99 purchase I've made ina long time. The only bad thing about it IMO is that netflix streaming looks kind of shit, but apparently this is because of the incredibly slow DSL line I have at this house (I can't get it upgraded to anything faster for various reasons), if I'm lucky it gets 3mbps but it's usually more around 1.5 or 2, so the netflix stuff looks like youtube. but I use it mostly for streaming the itunes library to my stereo.

the outpouring of hatred for the beatles after the announcement this week was just... staggering

Yeah, well. Welcome to Stagger's then.

hmm my dad has sort of shitty internet too (lol vermont) how big is yr tv that netflix looks like youtube on akm?

x-post Love the Beatles. Hate Beatles, Inc, which as any Beatles fan will tell you has more or less dragged its feet on all things catalog - reissues, remastering, etc. - or outright done the wrong thing. The ill-will I alluded to was toward the business side, because the music remains unimpeachable.

there are maybe 10-15 people, worldwide, who do not already have digital copies of every album and who also follow the beatles reissues/remasters closely enough to have an opinion about how the beatles operate as a publishing business.

AND I AM NINE OF THEM

are you angry that the box set is not free?

MAN RINGO BETTER HAND DELIVER ME THAT SHIT IS ALL IM SAYIN

WITH AN AUTOGRAPH.

guys, my mom was pretty interested in this whole "beatles on itunes" thing. she expressed an interest in buying an album or two this way, although the full catalog would be "way too much beatles"

fwiw she lost her albums on vinyl a few decades ago, don't think she's ever bought any since then. maybe listened when my little sister had albums.

Apple TV will make sense in a couple of years when Jobs finally figures a way to lock the internet in his proprietary box.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 21 November 2010 00:37 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's not that, it's the sheer amount of stuff that's badly implemented. You can't play songs unless they're checked in iTunes, you can't control photo transitions in manual mode, you can't run a slideshow of more than 10 photos at a time, etc etc. This thing desperately wants a software update.

who unchecks songs in itunes??

lol i was just trying to get the check column to disappear the other day

the beatles are the george lucas of musicians. discuss.

what is a ping.

Yes yes yes 100%. btw Lucas is going to re-release his dumb Star Wars movies YET AGAIN but in fake 3D this time.

who unchecks songs in itunes??

aaagh such an Apple fanboy response (whether you are an Apple fanboy or not). I have ~95Gb of music and a 60Gb iPod in the car, without checking I can't auto-sync. Doesn't make sense for Apple TV use.

i uncheck because some songs ruin albums, but i'm enough of a completist nerd that i can't bring myself to just delete them

what happened to linux, aa?

aaagh such an Apple fanboy response (whether you are an Apple fanboy or not). I have ~95Gb of music and a 60Gb iPod in the car, without checking I can't auto-sync. Doesn't make sense for Apple TV use.

― Friday: vuvuzela club meeting (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, November 20, 2010 4:23 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

fanboy response? i dont even know what unchecking does!! it has never occurred to me to 'check' or 'uncheck' songs

I guess most people use playlists rather than unchecking in that scenario, AA. Sucks that you went with unchecking.

aaagh such an Apple fanboy response (whether you are an Apple fanboy or not). I have ~95Gb of music and a 60Gb iPod in the car, without checking I can't auto-sync. Doesn't make sense for Apple TV use.

― Friday: vuvuzela club meeting (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, November 20, 2010 4:23 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

fanboy response? i dont even know what unchecking does!! it has never occurred to me to 'check' or 'uncheck' songs

― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Saturday, November 20, 2010 4:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

check this box if youre a fanboy

what unchecking does slocki, aa, is tell itunes that you dont want to listen to that song, ever, not even on yr apple tv

that's right, but i think in practice people also use it like aa, to define a subset of the library to be synced to an ipod.

it would be better for aa to define a playlist of stuff he doesn't want to sync, a smart playlist of everything not in that playlist, and then sync his ipod with that smart playlist.

or use linux

also not to be a dick or nuthin but "unchecking" as a way to keep an ipod sync'd with a larger HD library is a baffling practice, and needlessly labor intensive. just make an "IPOD" playlist, and sync that.

it would be better for aa to define a playlist of stuff he doesn't want to sync, a smart playlist of everything not in that playlist, and then sync his ipod with that smart playlist.

― caek, Saturday, November 20, 2010 3:36 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

this is a pisstake, right

haha ya, that is the inverse of what you should do, which is what gbx said you should do.

no, that way is better because then new music is on your ipod by default, which is probably what you want (and how checks work)

what if your ipod is named "old classics"

i mean you can create an ipod playlist too, obv. point is there are thousands of ways to define a subset to sync without ticking the "i never want to hear this song" button

Yeah, gbx's makes more sense in a way, in that new stuff will be added to the iPod by default. The other way, you constantly have to be adding stuff to it (unless you have an "added in last three months" playlist synced as well (which is what I do).

Suppose it depends on whether you're more likely to want new stuff added or not added to the iPod.

what i did is write an applescript to sb noobs directly from itunes

Yeah, gbx's makes more sense in a way, in that new stuff will be added to the iPod by default.

no, that's what my way does. gbx's way you have to add new stuff to the ipod playlist. gbx sucks.

What if you just want shuffle your whole library? Easier to hit that button than to make a playlist.

sometimes i make a playlist and call it like 'my demonic black metal playlist'