From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #282 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Thursday, December 13 2007 Volume 07 : Number 282 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] i CONTROL ["Dave Walker" ] [loud-fans] RE: iTunes to reality ["Douglas Stanley" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] i CONTROL I think it's more like j-random-phone-vendor doesn't pay Apple's engineers, so they're not going to spend person-hours working on the quirks of j-random-phone (extreme edition). If the phone can be mounted as a USB drive, then there are apps/scripts (for both Mac and Windows) that will let you designate a given playlist as a source for synchronization with the phone. If the phone requires custom software for syncing, you're in for more work. Any DRM mutilated... er, protected music you've bought won't work on the phone. That's the record industry's fault. -d.w. On 12/11/07, Scout82667@aol.com wrote: > > I just switched to Sun Com and they gave me a free phone with an FM radio > and MP3 player and camera built in. Am I to assume that uber control > freak > Steve Jobs has it so only i Tunes works with his products? If I've > assumed > correctly, is there a way to convert my downloaded i Tunes songs to > this phone? > > Wow, what pretty buttons, but where's the blue tooth? > --Mark > > "A few weeks later Vince called me, very excited. He said he wanted to > play > something he had just written. I told him that I would prefer to hear it > at > his studio rather than over the telephone, but he said he couldn't wait. > 'I've got to play this for someone right now or I'll explode!' > he said. I told > him to go ahead, and what I heard over the next two minutes stunned > me. It > was perfect for the Peanuts characters! When he returned to the phone, I > asked him what he was going to call it. He said, 'Linus and > Lucy.' Little did > we know that years later this piece would become a jazz standard > throughout > the world.'" > > (Lee Mendelson in THE MAKING OF A TRADITION "A CHARLIE BROWN > CHRISTMAS" 2000) Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts' material is f'ing brilliant. But of course, everyone already knows that. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:38:36 -0800 From: "Douglas Stanley" Subject: [loud-fans] RE: iTunes to reality There is a program I use called "iDump" that converts your iTunes library into user-friendly MP3s that are completely DRM-free. You can dump your whole library in one shot or song by song if you wish. It is free and works on Windows (don't know about Mac). http://www.codershole.com/idump.php?id=a38726b2273c61d937a7c00ba0bc8db9 Doug S. - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:48:28 EST From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] i CONTROL I just switched to Sun Com and they gave me a free phone with an FM radio and MP3 player and camera built in. Am I to assume that uber control freak Steve Jobs has it so only i Tunes works with his products? If I've assumed correctly, is there a way to convert my downloaded i Tunes songs to this phone? Wow, what pretty buttons, but where's the blue tooth? - - --Mark " ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:46:59 EST From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] i heart "A Charlie Brown Christmas" In a message dated 12/12/2007 8:55:43 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, dwalker@freeke.org writes: Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts' material is f'ing brilliant. But of course, everyone already knows that. Yes it is. I have two Guaraldi discs--I hope to get more this coming year. The book I quoted from is fascinating. The librarian at the elementary school I work at knows I'm a huge Peanuts fan (the Charlie Brown Christmas t-shirt I wore on casual Friday the other week was a smashing hit, both with kids and teachers). She surprised me the other morning in computer lab (we both tutor in there at like 7 am 'til first bell, so we chat to keep each other awake) with this fantastic book about the show's creation, and it's like heroin for a fan like me. Trivia: the choir kids singing in the show and on the Guaraldi soundtrack were six volunteers from St. Paul's Episcopal church in San Rafael, 1965--recorded in two September evenings at Fantasy studios in SF (and they went out for ice cream afterwards). Seven-year-old Christopher Shea did the voice of LInus (and he eerily looked like him)--that means Linus is now about 49 or 50. At the first screening with the animators, animator Ed Levitt stood up in the back row and decared "A Charlie Brown Christmas will run for a hundred years." CBS executives thought after watching it pre-airing that it would flop. It ranked second in the Nielson's beaten out only by Hoss and Little Joe. - --Mark **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:04:30 EST From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RE: iTunes to reality In a message dated 12/12/2007 1:00:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dstanley@broadcom.com writes: There is a program I use called "iDump" that converts your iTunes library into user-friendly MP3s that are completely DRM-free. You can dump your whole library in one shot or song by song if you wish. Thank you for this!! I don't mean to get all raunchy, like in my Sgt. bashing days, but when I saw the phrase "i Dump" I imagined a stark white European looking toilet with an i Pod looking controller in place of the flush handle. - --Mark **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #282 *******************************