Raq,

what about playlist.com?

Sweet. I'd read a blurb about it, but they didn't mention that you could invite friends to add songs. So when I gave it a look and got turned off by the ad-heavy UI, I didn't push farther.

Thanks!

Oh, for the love of FUCK. Does anyone know of a uPNP free server for Windows that doesn't have a peculiar transcode limitation? I've never had any problem serving anything to my TV via Serviio on my Mac, but the NAS software doesn't transcode a bunch of stuff, Vuze on Windows skips a bunch of stuff, and I just tried TVersity on Windows and it skipped a bunch of stuff. I haven't gone into each AVI and found out what codecs are good and which aren't--some work, some don't, but it's nothing visible from filename. However, it's crazy. It's not like I have that many options to download this shit in (especially considering the volume I already have ripped).

Has anyone here developed apps for the iPhone?

I just volunteered to develop an iPhone app for a client. (We don't know yet what they want the app to do.) I've never done this and have only a little knowledge of Objective C. On the plus side, I think it will be really fun and I'm a quick learner when it comes to programming languages.

It's not definite yet, but I'm crossing my fingers....

I've done a lot of desktop Mac development and a smattering of iOS.

Cool. If this goes through I may have questions....

tommy,

I cannot remember where i was on the internet where they discussed there being resources for app developers. maybe lifehacker?

check out readwriteweb too. they are pretty good with posting resources.

ita !, the only one I've ever used was something called ps3mediaserver. I have no idea if it will have the same problems you're having, but it worked for my needs for the short time I needed it. It uses mplayer and ffmpeg as its backend, which have always been able to handle any video file I threw at them.

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That's dedicated to the PS3. I'm not sure my TV requires the same transcodes. Most of the servers I've used detect what sort of devices are on my network, and theoretically transcode specifically for them. But they've all fallen short, bar Serviio, in some formats/codecs for the TV at least. I haven't thoroughly tried testing with anything else other than the TouchPad, and it supports pretty much jackshit.

I'd love to fall in love with WebOS, but some developers have to do so first, and I mean *love*. Like, I mean, free apps. I don't want to spend money in the courtship period--I want to be convinced of a sufficient software base available for free, and then I pay for the perks.

I'm pessimistic about its future, more than I was before I had one.

And it's a nifty OS, to the limited degree I've found the apps useful.

It may be dedicated to the PS3, but it certainly served content just fine to my LG Blu-Ray player. I don't know much about it, admittedly.