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sumi - Feb 18, 2008 6:44:29 am PST #4815 of 25501

Art Crawl!!!

Help!

I bought a nano on Saturday and today I'm trying to charge it up and when I first plugged it into the USB port - my computer told me that it didn't recognize it and it is malfunctioning so try again. Which I did - and got similar messages but now I'm getting nothing. Does this mean my ipod's cord is frelled or is it the two usb ports on my home computer?

Consuela - Feb 18, 2008 8:34:16 am PST #4816 of 25501

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Okay, I got the book on cd ripped in via iTunes. It's just annoying because then I had to use MP3 converter to make it an audiobook. iTunes should have an mp3-to-audiobook converter built in...

tommyrot - Feb 18, 2008 8:35:15 am PST #4817 of 25501

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I think you can just tell iTunes that an mp3 is an audiobook. (He says, without checking iTunes first.)

OK, I think that what you do is go to "Get Info" and change the Genre to AudioBooks. You also might want to check "Remember playback position" under Options.

§ ita § - Feb 18, 2008 11:17:57 am PST #4818 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What tommy said has worked for me. I've never had to convert anything again, but I use iTunes to listen to it in.

evil jimi - Feb 18, 2008 4:10:58 pm PST #4819 of 25501

Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Jessica ... what Jon said ... or, if you're feeling really adventurous, another solution I found is to edit the comments database using PHPMyAdmin.

Kristen - Feb 18, 2008 11:33:25 pm PST #4820 of 25501

From Wired.com:

Toshiba put HD-DVD out of its misery today. Reuters confirmed this afternoon that it will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, following earlier reports from Japan's NHK public broadcasting network.

So I guess this means Blu-Ray wins?

omnis_audis - Feb 18, 2008 11:54:06 pm PST #4821 of 25501

omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

until the next medium comes along.

Stephanie - Feb 19, 2008 2:42:36 am PST #4822 of 25501

Trust my rage

Just yesterday, I heard two news reports about how Blu-Ray seemed to be winning but nothing was decided yet. Stuff moves fast in this world.

Jessica - Feb 19, 2008 3:47:37 am PST #4823 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Aw, HD-DVD, we hardly knew ye!

Is this Sony's first format-war win?

Tom Scola - Feb 19, 2008 4:05:37 am PST #4824 of 25501

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Sony partnered with Philips to create the CD format, which was a win.

But Sony blew it with Beta, DAT, Mini-Disc, SACD and UMD.

Before the DVD was released, Sony and Philips were ready to go to war with a Toshiba alliance over the format, but a compromise was brokered. The result was the most successful consumer electronics introduction ever. You would think that they would have learned their lesson.

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