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nano has FM radio

A fucking FM radio. A fucking FM radio, for fuck's sake.

2009

THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF AN FM RADIO STOMPING ON A HIPSTER'S FACE FOREVER.

Norah Jones!

Can I buy a remastered boxset of all her crappy songs?

With bonus video!

Man, now I can carry around an FM radio and all my favourite Norah Jones songs... on one device! And only pay $150 for the privilege.

man i don't pay that much attention to such things but was that the wackest apple event ever?

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OMG the FM radio has a DVR-style capability so you can rewind songs. It'll be kind of like having some kind of mp3 player on your iPod.

man i don't pay that much attention to such things but was that the wackest apple event ever?

oh god i remember that one

this one was like all the september ipod events have ever been

Where's my damned Papers tablet.

pretty underwhelming, even compared to other sept. ipod events

so did they not drop the price of the iphone?

Ed do you have papers for iPhone and is it worth it

a camera for the nano but none for the touch sweird

rumormongers were showing new Touch cases with a hole for a camera and more recently mentioning some kind of technical set-back on adding the camera to the touch. Any chance it was planned but they had to push it back at the last minute? I'd think even if that was the case they'd still announce it as coming soon...

"they'd still announce it as coming soon."

apple has never done that with hardware. with you on the planned and failed tho.

"They tried and failed?"

"They tried and died."

This makes me want to do that thing where you make a coughing sound and say the word 'bullshit' at the same time:

You put a camcorder on the iPod Nano. Why not on the iPod Touch?

Originally, we weren’t exactly sure how to market the Touch. Was it an iPhone without the phone? Was it a pocket computer? What happened was, what customers told us was, they started to see it as a game machine. Because a lot of the games were free on the store. Customers started to tell us, “You don’t know what you’ve got here — it’s a great game machine, with the multitouch screen, the accelerometer, and so on.”

We started to market it that way, and it just took off. And now what we really see is it’s the lowest-cost way to the App Store, and that’s the big draw. So what we were focused on is just reducing the price to $199. We don’t need to add new stuff — we need to get the price down where everyone can afford it.

I got my iPod touch for $200 nearly two years ago, by buying refurbished through the Apple store. it was pretty much brand-new when it arrived.

Apple why the hell do you keep throwing this genre shit into iTunes?

It's awful. No one browses that way. Stop it.

Now I will do the 5-second google+copy+paste it will take to get rid of it. What an awful inconvenience.

Oh wow I actually get a menu option now.

Nevermind.

I miss the days when every new iTunes update had a newly colored musical note icon.

I think they ran out of colours.

None more black.

The genre field is where I put the name of the record label. For techno this is wayyyy more helpful.

the genius mix thing kind of works, assuming that you want a predictable, non-eclectic mix.

Does anyone know why iTunes is not 64-bit yet? I'm assuming it's because of legacy QuickTime issues. But I find that iTunes has become a system hog under OS10.6

64-bit would not solve that.

Apple why the hell do you keep throwing this genre shit into iTunes?

It's awful. No one browses that way. Stop it.

Now I will do the 5-second google+copy+paste it will take to get rid of it. What an awful inconvenience.

― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:52 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

I browse that way. I have all of my genres set up in broad categories and frequently will just put on a specific genre. So the genius mix doesn't add much for me since I could just put a genre on shuffle anyway. Unless I don't want to see what song is coming up next.

I realize that a lot of people don't do this, but my iTunes library is well tended to. I make sure all artist names are correct, case is correct on song titles, album artist is used properly, year, genre, track number format, album art, all of that has to be correct.

I have a ridiculously organized iTunes library with everything except genre. It is impossible to get "correct", unlike artist name or whatever, and even if it weren't, it is useless to me for browsing and listening. I think a lot of people are like this.

What this thread needs is a discussion of genre.

My favourite genre is Alternative, followed by Rock.

mine is alt-rock

once more, with feeling

The genre selection is correct if it serves your purpose. I'm not putting an exact consensus on the genre in there, but a broad category that I can pull up when I want a specific mood or style of music.

I use genre as a handy metadata field. Eg I have one genre for "Full Album" so that I can exclude "albums" where I only have one or two tracks from the browser. Am surprised iTunes doesn't do this natively yet -- there's lots of UI, like Coverflow, that really only works with complete albums, yet the pollute it with singles and crap.

The compilations setting helped a bit with this, but a "compilation" genre still works better.

I browse that way. I have all of my genres set up in broad categories and frequently will just put on a specific genre. So the genius mix doesn't add much for me since I could just put a genre on shuffle anyway. Unless I don't want to see what song is coming up next.

I realize that a lot of people don't do this, but my iTunes library is well tended to. I make sure all artist names are correct, case is correct on song titles, album artist is used properly, year, genre, track number format, album art, all of that has to be correct.

My name is also Jeff and we very well might be the same person. Though I am a huge fan of Genius, particularly when I'm out walking or taking the bus or something where I have a half hour and want to hear random stuff that's at least sort of connected.

i think genius has a bad rap as well. it's great for the car when you want to have a somewhat cohesive random playlist, instead of just shuffling.

did they mention any uses for spotlight on iphone yesterday?

goddamnit upgrading iphone software killed tethering for me. don't upgrade if this is important to you because it's all but impossible to rollback to 3.0.

Okay Apple friendly folks, here's one to throw at you:

* New MacMini purchased, runs Snow Leopard, set up just fine and good to go.

* Old MacMini still running fine, runs Leopard without a care

* Migration Assistant 3.0 on the new MacMini, 1.2.3 on the old one

* I don't have a FireWire 400/800 connection to hand, temporarily using an Ethernet connection (will buy said FireWire tomorrow if I need to)

* Running the respective Migration Assistants on each computer gets the two of them into the 'searching for other computers' mode and then nothing happens. At all. Restarts, etc. produce nothing.

* Figuring that installing Snow Leopard on the old MacMini can't hurt with this whole thing, I attempt to do so -- old one runs on Intel chips, 8 GB free on the drive, there's a gig of RAM, everything should be fine.

* Every time I launch the Snow Leopard installation it tells me after a few seconds that it can't be installed on the old computer, without any explanation.

Any guesses? It's more frustrating knowing that the computers are both working and right THERE but refusing to acknowledge each other in the slightest.

old Mac Mini has an intel processor?

oh duh you mentioned that. I would try firewire...

It's pretty much the only thing I can think of. I'm half guessing that there's something in the old MacMini's Migration utility that *only* recognizes FireWire, since nothing else makes sense. Anyway, we'll see what tomorrow brings after I snag either an adaptor or a new cable.

I have never actually used migration assistant, but in the old days, to connect to computers _directly_ using their network sockets you needed to use a cross-over network cable rather than the regular one you might connect to a router or wall socket. This is are cheap, but not something most people have lying around.

I would just get a FW cable though, that will work. Like I say, never used migration assistant, but you you might have to boot the old one in Target Disk Mode (hold down T while switching on).

Dunno why SL won't install on the old mini : (