MP3 player. That's a big one for me. It comes with RealPlayer, but RealPlayer has the worst interface for mp3 playing ever, and the only decent mp3 players (Aerotunes and PocketTunes) are moneys-ish.
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Gris - Dec 16, 2005 10:42:46 am PST #6042 of 10003
Hey. New board.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2005 10:46:10 am PST #6043 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
MP3 player. That's a big one for me.
That makes sense. Of course, I'm multiple-devicey enough that I like to pick between the iPod, the Nano, and the Shuffle on my way out the door. Even before the iPods, I never had any interest in playing music on my PDA, even though it could.
Jessica - Dec 16, 2005 10:50:55 am PST #6044 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
MP3 player. That's a big one for me.
Huh -- my Clie has one built-in.
Gris - Dec 16, 2005 5:08:06 pm PST #6045 of 10003
Hey. New board.
There is one built in, it just sucks. A lot. It scans the entire memory card for the files and presents them all as one big file list for you to make playlists out of.
I have a 1 GB SD card. I wanted my MP3 player to be able to see my folders, y'know?
le nubian - Dec 16, 2005 5:28:08 pm PST #6046 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
did you check palmgear? there are a lot of good mp3 shareware players.
Betsy, I swear your misread of "Treo" had me laughing out loud. Thanks for that.
Theodosia - Dec 17, 2005 4:05:14 am PST #6047 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
If I want to make a copy of a VCD, can I just copy it like a regular CD, or is there anything special I have to do -- am I misremembering there's something different about the way the files/tracks are laid down?
DXMachina - Dec 17, 2005 4:13:56 am PST #6048 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
If it's already in VCD format, yes, you can just copy it. If it's just a CD of the mpg file without the extra VCD format stuff, then you have to create a VCD from the mpg file.
Theodosia - Dec 17, 2005 4:16:12 am PST #6049 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Thanks, Ed! Yeah, it's a VCD all set up correctly and playable. The iVCD program actually creates all the files on my laptop in a folder (as well as burning them onto a blank CD), so I could just make another by copying those files over. Ex-cellent!
Jesse - Dec 17, 2005 6:07:21 am PST #6050 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, I have a phone issue: I had all my phone numbers and stuff stored in my old phone, not in the SIM card, which made it a PITA to transfer. So now I'm putting them into the card, but it looks like if I have them in the new phone, I can attach photos to the phone book entries, which would be so fun! But would mean a new PITA when I get a new phone someday. I can't decide which to do. Any opinions?
le nubian - Dec 17, 2005 6:37:21 am PST #6051 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
how long does it take for the Ipod Updater? It's been 20-30 minutes already.