Comments on: Wait for my iPod?

By: todd_riverden

todd_riverden — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:32:12 +0000

Ok, i just have to know. How much and how hard is it to get tickets to ‘wait, wait don’t tell me”?
Todd.

By: whiteyfawks

whiteyfawks — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:04:42 +0000

OMG thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
I bought a Nano while down at FC so I could carry more music on the jog / bike trails, but found the same problem with the damn ID3 tages. Loaded up 4gb of what I thought was the same stuff, and it had a heart attack.
Odd thing is, I’ve ripped all from my CD’s using FreeRip. It’s allways found the CD’s and they’ve allways been tagged. Yet somehow there have been albumbs that only the first 3 songs were identified by iTunes, and the last 7 were lest as filename only. All the ID3’s look the same, yet apple gets pershnikety. Who know.
Will give brainz a try n see what I can sort 🙂

By: rustitobuck

rustitobuck — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:46:14 +0000

And incidentally, I love Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, pretty much along with the whole line up on public radio on Saturday. Whaddya Know? is a favorite too.
Didn’t know Wait Wait was on podcast.
Giving the same gift to each other is just too damn cute.

By: altivo

altivo — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:35:45 +0000

Twenty lashes with a wet noodle or something. You aren’t the only one who hasn’t listened. Or at least, those who listen don’t give me much feedback. As many as 120 people download each episode, but only two or three tell me they listened to it.
My suspicion is that it is like recording tv shows. People record stacks of them to watch later but never get around to it.

By: altivo

altivo — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:34:08 +0000

In reply to woodychitwn. No iPod here, no plans to get one. We have two other non-Apple MP3 players, though. I actually tend to listen to podcasts at the computer, using xmms.

By: rustitobuck

rustitobuck — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:20:07 +0000

Yeah, I was gonna say, you might want to grab an ID3-whacking program. Some will even read the filenames if you had title-album-artist.mp3 for a filename, for instance.
Bear in mind that you can drop the lot into iTunes and use playlists to determine what goes on the player. Couple that with smart playlists and it works out great. You can also tell iTunes
That’s pretty much what I do to put 19.5Gb of content into my 20Gb player with a little space left. I have a smart playlist that identifies All Music (genre is not Spoken Word or Hypnosis), and then I also add in Current Audiobooks and Current TAL (This American Life). The real killer is that in my tenure as an Audible subscriber, I picked up 32 audiobooks and 99 episodes of This American Life.
Smart Playlists are also fun for things like Not Recently Played (just like All Music but with Limit to 200 songs selected by least recently played, with Live Updating). The iPod actually tells iTunes what you’ve been playing when you sync it.

By: typographer

typographer — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:12:58 +0000

I must try to listen for your laughter when the show is broadcast.

By: typographer

typographer — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:12:19 +0000

In reply to woodychitwn. You can't be. I don't have one. I have another brand of MP3 player, but not an Ipod...

By: woodychitwn

woodychitwn — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:09:11 +0000

Sometimes I feel like I’m the last person on earth without an iPod…
And the podcast I’ve been listening to has gotten… I dunno… I’m losing interest. But the first 55 episodes provide some decent listening!