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30 Most Recent RSS FeedBoxee Now Does Netflix
I mentioned Boxee the other day, which we are enormously pleased with at my house. The newest alpha release of Boxee now gets Netflix (so long Roku player!), the WB, and improved Hulu and YouTube. Yowza.
Go Figure
I normally don't comment on (or care much about) Apple business news and analysis, but how can these two stories, which both appeared today, be reconciled?
- "Apple's iPod Problem: With fewer iPod users upgrading, the days of explosive growth are over. And that leaves iPhones and Macs picking up the slack" - BusinessWeek
- "Apple iPod sales surprise analyst: Analyst reports shortages of Apple's iPod as sales remain strong amid tough economy" - Associated Press
Huh?
NEW: Reset Tracks Start-Stop
Reset Tracks Start-Stop will reset the Start and (optionally) the Stop Time of the selected tracks--or all the tracks of the selected playlist--to "0:00" and (optionally) their entire duration, respectively. (Erg, that could have been written better.)
UPDATED: Reset Bookmarks to Start v2.0
(Formerly "Reset Bookmarks".) Reset Bookmarks to Start will reset the bookmark of each selected track to its Start Time, effectively clearing the bookmark from its position later in the track. Tracks which have been set to "remember playback position" or which are "M4B" types will have a bookmark position.
Boxee
We successfully installed Boxee on our Apple TV and it works like you read about. Couldn't be more pleased. Just thought I'd pass that along.
UPDATED: Gather Up the One-Hits v2.2
Gather Up the One-Hits had a persistent problem for some users whereby only a single track would be copied to the "One Hits" playlist. I believe I have fixed the problem, albeit at a cost of some speed; but it should only take a few seconds rather than a few moments to run.
iTunes 8.0.2 Released
Apple has released iTunes v8.0.2. As of this writing it is only available via Software Update; I prefer to download the installer from the download page, so I'll wait a bit. According to the release notes, iTunes 8.0.2:
- Addresses a quality issue creating MP3s on some computers.
- Fixes a connectivity issue with the iTunes Store when using some Internet proxies with Mac OS X.
- Improves accessibility with VoiceOver.
More info when and if available.
Rock Stars & Parents
When I was a kid and my family subscribed to LIFE magazine I remember they had a regular photo series of current "rock stars" and their parents. Google is now hosting LIFE's photo archive (H/T to Gruber) and I found one from that series I had never forgotten: Frank Zappa and his folks from 1970. Be sure to check out the "Related images" link on the page for more (Elton, Clapton, Ginger Baker, et al).
Ahh, SoundJam
A MacInTouch reader continues to use SoundJam and is nostalgic for its glory days. Maybe me, too. But only a little.
Multiple Library Confusion
I've just posted a brief article explaining how your system can get confused when using iTunes' multiple library feature:
Some of my AppleScripts for iTunes use a routine which reads the iApps.plist in order to obtain the location of the current iTunes library's XML file in order to get information from it. I occasionally get reports that these scripts don't seem to be working correctly; that the information seems to be wrong or doesn't correlate with track tags in iTunes. When the Correspondent and I investigate this phenomenon, very often it is because the iApps.plist contains the wrong location for the current iTunes library....read more here.
