Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
What is a podcast? A podcast is a multimedia file that an iPod user can receive through a paid or free subscription over the Internet. The podcast uses syndication feeds or “RSS feeds.” They can be played back on your iPod, mp3 player or personal computer. The podcast has been around since [...]
The following two very cool products/projects are from Make Magazine. A very highly recommended magazine for the DIY’ers.
Can’t find an open source MP3 player?more-> Neither could we. Here’s an idea: Build your own. Daisy is an easy-to-build, pocket-sized open source MP3 player.
Producing sound as good as an iPod, the Daisy can access 65,000 tracks, play [...]
Says Chirs Pirillo, aka Lockernome, “Shawyan sent me an email listing his top 5 tips and tricks for an iPod. It’s an excellent list, so I wanted to share it with everyone.”
You can see the video below (or by clicking the link from our index page). The tips are very good. Basic, but good. Worth [...]
HOWTO: Make your own USB cable for the iPod Shuffle: applies to the 2G Shuffle which, as we know, uses a proprietary solution that employs the headphone jack. The page is in German but the included diagram is self-explanatory. The result is a cable similar to the one the Datasafe oomi/Pebble uses for data transfer. [...]
iPod charger inside a 9V battery: neat hack. [via]
A few days ago the beta version of WMP 11 surfaced, it sports a cleaner look than its predecessor (we had posted a preview with screenshots back in March) and features a built-in music store (like the iTunes Music Store within iTunes) called Urge. Urge is the fruit of collaboration between MTV Networks and Microsoft; [...]
Question: what happens when you rate a song on the iPod, rate it on iTunes differently, and sync the two? Answer: The iTunes rating prevails even if it took place before the iPod rating. (For the record, playcounts are recorded correctly, since both the extra playbacks on the iPod and on iTunes are added, regardless [...]
It all depends on whether or not you let iTunes manage your music library:
If you do, then moving your music while preserving library data (playlists, play counts, etc.) is pretty trivial and documentation provided by Apple has got you covered (check “Part 1” in the guide that follows).
If you don’t (which is the user group [...]
“Oh no, the battery doesn’t hold a charge like it used to”—frequent portable audio forums and you’ll be hearing this a lot. The batteries that power your portable audio device can last longer and be more efficient provided you treat them carefully. What follows is a list of the best resources on the matter.
Battery types, [...]
How-to: adding album art to the Zen Vision:M retrospectively: using Zen Media Explorer and setting the view to “Album”.