good news, boppers: bov promotes a new url of an old buddy of mine: www.salbader.com
actually, there was a time, half a dozen or so years ago, i wanted to do a better website for salbader. just because i loved it so much. besides that arrogant attitude towards the unknown webmaster i never even made a decent proposal. years later, i suddenly found myself in representative salbader company on antville.org, closer than i ever imagined. weird shit, this thang called life.
itunes week, obviously...
if you should experience problems with itunes 4.9, airtunes and some of yourtunes (ie. certain mp3s won't play remotely): that's mainly caused due to incompatible creator/type settings in a file's resource fork.
i managed to solve this issue by downloading marc respass' type changer 1.2.1, opening the desired files and changing type to MPG3 and creator to hook.
uh, and for the not-so-faint at heart having the developer tools on disk there's the option to do it the unix way from within a shell:
/Developer/Tools/SetFile -c hook -t MPG3 AudioFile.mp3
(but please make a backup of your mp3s before you start!)
how to spot arial. and erase it...
sam ruby again: "I want to increase the chances that the following information finds its way into Apple. And Disney. But mostly Apple."
well, while i am already e-mailing with apple itunes music store support people about similar issues anyway, why not giving mr ruby a link? here it is: insensititve itunes.
and luckily mark pilgrim's popping in with yet another excellent comment: "iTunes is to podcasting as Internet Explorer is to HTML. RSS interoperability, at least as far as podcasting goes, now means 'works with iTunes.'"
mail to apple.
"Dear Madams and Sirs.
We wonder why recent updates on our podcast server are not reflected in ITMS -- neither instantly, nor after more than one day.
If you compare our podcast's appearance in ITMS with our podcast website or the corresponding feed you might notice the differences.
Thus, we (believing to speak in the names of many other podcast publishers out there trying to embrace what Apple offers) kindly aks for some advice regarding the following questions.
a) What is the update schedule of the ITMS podcast cache? When are podcasts updated?
b) Will meta information (like art work etc.) be updated, too?
c) What happens when a podcast does not conform to Apple's spec after initial publishing? How will I notice? How can I debug?
d) Why can anyone publish a feed, even if she or he obviously is not the maintainer, nor producer, nor affiliate?
e) Do you plan to answer these and similar questions publicly in an updated version of your podcast specs (or any other prominent place)?
We very much appreciate Apple's efforts to support podcasting and would like to encourage ITMS as open and preferably free platform for the whole podcasting community.
Thus, we think it will be worthwhile as well as necessary to communicate these and similar issues publicly."
if (itunes == podcasting + bit_torrent) {
delete bit_torrent.piracy;
bit_torrent.popularity++;
bandwidth++;
}hey, how ’bout such a mini bike?