Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
621230
Need to get your songs off of your iPod? ITunes is no help, but several third-party software options can help you reclaim full control of your digital music library. We've reviewed the best. By Scott Gilbertson.
297668
Get some shiny new tech gear for the holidays? Not sure what to do with the old stuff? We can help.
296726
Upcoming service will make songs in your iTunes library accessible on your mobile phone.
645075
You know it's bound to happen: One of the CDs you've burned is going to stop working - be it from scratches, aging, poor manufacturing or the fact that it was made with old software.    But don't turn that disc into a drink coaster quite yet...
624384
At Fry's this afternoon, where I bought two 500GB Firewire drives. Which it turns out I needed because after I got home all three external drives attached to my desktop were reported as damaged beyond repair by the new Mac OS. Coincidence? Lucky that I had exactly the hardware I needed to dig out of the mess? Who knows!
545958
Are disappearing tunes a new bug, a known glitch or something else entirely? In Cult of Mac.
723309
After you've joined the music revolution and plunked down &#36;250 for an Apple iPod mini, it's easy to become quite protective of the little gizmo.
425024
Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying tunes.
296326
SoundBridge M2000 eloquently frees your digital tunes from the PC, but it's pricey.
89537
Booting up in Âsafe modeÂ; how to record vinyl records onto a PC; external floppy drives.
289245
Continuing the thread from yesterday. I got absolutely nowhere, some people suggested I use a smart playlist, missing the point that I'm a developer working on a podcatcher, not a user trying to use iTunes as a podcatcher. I'm sure it's an excellent way to subscribe to podcasts, but I have my own ideas how podcatchers should work, and I want to integrate them with other stuff I'm working on. Integrating with iTunes is proving to be quite a challenge, or maybe it's an art, we'll see.  As usual Mac users are superior sumbitches.  (Quoting the James Brolin character the first time we meet him in the third season finale of The West Wing.) Anyway, the search continues, I tried another more direct tack, and looked for glue for iTunes for UserLand, and bingo, there's a match, from 2001, a well-known Frontier programmer Sean Elfstrom, apparently converted glue for the Sonic SoundJam app that iTunes used to be, before Apple acquired it.  I installed the glue in the OPML Editor. It's daunting, for sure, but let's see what I can get working.
390823
Can one orchestraâs audacious experiment save classical music?
93431
Users of HD Radio devices will soon be able to 'tag' songs they hear for later purchase using iTunes.
698706
I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
574769
Though digital music has come a long way, today's online music stores still have significant problems. Here's my fix-it wish list.
582003
This entry is a little off my regular beat, but its substance is of great importance to all users of Linux audio software. To get straight to the point, it's about money and two projects in real need of significant financial support, the Ardour hard disk recorder/digital audio workstation and the Hydrogen rhythm programmer/drum machine. Both projects are well along in their development cycles, both have achieved great status not only in the Linux audio software world but on OSX as well, and both need financing for their planned evolution. Ardour and Hydrogen are two of Linux's finest programs for musicians, rivalling their commercial counterparts and providing libre alternatives to the intense vendor lock-in typical of the Win/Mac sound and music software worlds. These are truly important projects that deserve your support and financial backing.
579882
This paper introduces some techniques for making backups without needing to stop the business applications. It also describes ways to simplify and reduce the cost of system operations.