{"id":284,"date":"2005-07-20T06:56:15","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T14:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2005-07-20T06:56:56","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T14:56:56","slug":"the-second-best-thing-since-sliced-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/the-second-best-thing-since-sliced-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second Best Thing Since Sliced Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, PocketTunes 3.1 was released<\/a>, adding support for Windows DRM. The net of this is that I now have a device that can play unlimited downloaded tracks from Yahoo! Music Unlimited<\/a> – my Treo 650<\/a>! <\/p>\n

Some pros and cons over my iPod<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Con: Tranfers through USB are slow. I need to see if I can just pop out my SD card and transfer them directly.
\nPro: Unlimited, legal music!
\nCon: My 1GB SD card is a tad smaller than my 40GB iPod. Then again, it takes quite a long time to listen to 1GB of music and I always listen on shuffle, so does it really matter?
\nPro: No additional device to carry around<\/p>\n

I didn’t quite understand at first that you had to run PocketTunes while it’s connected to your computer for it to show up in YME as a device. I also haven’t figured out how to have YME autofill my device with 1GB of random music. I don’t want to have to select and size a random set of music to put on my Treo. Previously I did this off my MP3 collection with a small perl script that kept selecting random tracks until it got to a certain size. Perhaps it’s time for me to write a new YME Plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My iPod is now almost permanently stationed in my living room as the living room music player. It’s connected to my stereo which works quite well. But I think it’s getting lonely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, PocketTunes 3.1 was released, adding support for Windows DRM. The net of this is that I now have a device that can play unlimited downloaded tracks from Yahoo! Music Unlimited – my Treo 650! Some pros and cons over my iPod: Con: Tranfers through USB are slow. I need to see if I can …<\/p>\n

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