Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
Nils;226091 Wrote: Ideally, it would look just as nice as Apples interface for controlling music on the devices, but I guess that is a pipedream. Yeah, I think that's a good guess. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
Quoting Balthazar_B ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): DCtoDaylight;225936 Wrote: Ya but I'm and audiophile AND a techno dweeb! I want my cake and to eat it too! Your point is certainly valid, even the 160 gig Classic won't hold everything unless I convert it to lossy compression. I guess it becomes a question of how often I want to re-load. That's exactly what I do with my 80GB iPod (which has too little capacity for my library, so a 160GB Classic is soon on its way). I sort of get around the conversion step by ripping everything in one step to both gapless FLAC (managed by SlimServer/Ubuntu) and gapless iTunes AAC (managed by iTunes/XP), which gives me lossless for my more critical listening environment at home and lossy for fitting on my portable player, which is almost always used in more challenging environments where higher quality playback would be wasted. I rip everything to Flac, and then use MediaMonkey to convert it on the fly to mp3 when loading my iPod. That way I don't have to take up room on my drives with mp3s just for the ipod. I also run mp3fs, which allows me to mount your Flac files as mp3 and lets iTunes index them. I do that because MediaMonkey doesn't support the iPhone yet, and I have to use iTunes to load it. Either way allows me to feed my Apple devices the mp3s they want at any bitrate I choose, without having to store/manage mp3s on disk. Neat. http://www.mediamonkey.com http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
I guess it's only a matter of someone writing a nice webinterface for slimserver for use with the iPhone/iPod Touch. Ideally, it would look just as nice as Apples interface for controlling music on the devices, but I guess that is a pipedream. In my opinion, current skins for slimserver are vastly inferior to even the first versions of iTunes, and I don't think they have to be. -- Nils Nils's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6961 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
opaqueice;225830 Wrote: But if it ever becomes possible, I'll be able to listen to my entire music library any place, any time (so long as I have phone service at least). Not bad, eh? ;-) Only if you have a flat rate data plan, otherwise be prepared for the massive bill shock at the end of the month :-) -- CardinalFang CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
DCtoDaylight;225734 Wrote: Well, certainly those of us using iTunes to organize their music collections should be able to! But given Apple's refusal to have anything to do with flac, I would guess the rest of you will be out of luck I do have to say tho, I'm a little disappointed that it's a flash based player, I had been hoping for the capacity of a hard disc. Cheers, Dave There's a fair bit of speculation that they have arranged the product line so that the iPod classic with the extra disk space is for the audiophiles and the Touch is for the gadget freaks who have to have the latest thing to impress their peer geeks. The odd thing is that I have found that the more you use an iPod, the less memory you want. I used to have all my music on my iPod, now it's a lot less at higher bit rates and I only really listen to a fraction of the songs on the move. -- CardinalFang CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
ezkcdude;225527 Wrote: The other thing I'm wondering about the Touch is whether you could actually stream music from your SlimServer database. *That would freakin' awesome!* I've been trying to find a way to get that to work with my iphone. Unfortunately the version of the safari browser it has won't play mp3 streams (in fact it will only play certain properly packaged quicktime streams). But if it ever becomes possible, I'll be able to listen to my entire music library any place, any time (so long as I have phone service at least). Not bad, eh? ;-) -- opaqueice opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
CardinalFang;225834 Wrote: Only if you have a flat rate data plan, otherwise be prepared for the massive bill shock at the end of the month :-) It's a flat rate, fortunately! $20/month unlimited. Apparently the first few bills some iphone users got (it didn't happen to me for some reason) were something like 50 pages of itemized data charges, all for $0.00... -- opaqueice opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
CardinalFang;225828 Wrote: There's a fair bit of speculation that they have arranged the product line so that the iPod classic with the extra disk space is for the audiophiles and the Touch is for the gadget freaks who have to have the latest thing to impress their peer geeks. Ya but I'm and audiophile AND a techno dweeb! I want my cake and to eat it too! CardinalFang;225828 Wrote: The odd thing is that I have found that the more you use an iPod, the less memory you want. I used to have all my music on my iPod, now it's a lot less at higher bit rates and I only really listen to a fraction of the songs on the move. Your point is certainly valid, even the 160 gig Classic won't hold everything unless I convert it to lossy compression. I guess it becomes a question of how often I want to re-load. It just seems odd to me, that the player with the biggest screen and is best suited for video, doesn't have the big capacity As always your mileage may vary! Dave -- DCtoDaylight DCtoDaylight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
DCtoDaylight;225936 Wrote: Ya but I'm and audiophile AND a techno dweeb! I want my cake and to eat it too! Your point is certainly valid, even the 160 gig Classic won't hold everything unless I convert it to lossy compression. I guess it becomes a question of how often I want to re-load. That's exactly what I do with my 80GB iPod (which has too little capacity for my library, so a 160GB Classic is soon on its way). I sort of get around the conversion step by ripping everything in one step to both gapless FLAC (managed by SlimServer/Ubuntu) and gapless iTunes AAC (managed by iTunes/XP), which gives me lossless for my more critical listening environment at home and lossy for fitting on my portable player, which is almost always used in more challenging environments where higher quality playback would be wasted. Having my cake and eating it too :). -- Balthazar_B Balthazar_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7366 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
)p(;225459 Wrote: Now lets hope someone hacks is it, so we can run jive on it... :) Given a small device that could do both - jive and web interface - which interface would be prefered? Of course we haven't really seen the jive interface, and I'm sure I haven't visualized all the possible uses for it, but it looks to be on a par with the classic ipod interface built around a scroll wheel. Given the choice between an ipod interface and the Touch skin in a web browser, I'd choose the web browser by a large margin. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
The other thing I'm wondering about the Touch is whether you could actually stream music from your SlimServer database. *That would freakin' awesome!* -- ezkcdude There are 10 kind of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't. SHINYMETAL '*Site*' (http://www.ezdiyaudio.com)| '*RSS*' (http://www2.kumc.edu/students/ezamir/rss/ezdiyaudio.xml) |'*Forum*' (http://ezdiyaudio.informe.com) ezkcdude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2545 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
the Touch is whether you could actually stream music And, since the |touch is only 16Mb, the slimserver could refresh the playlists from it's main library. 16Gb is about 4% of my music ;) -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
Now i'm torn between the new ipod and the possibility of the Jive remote from SlimdDvices. The touch has the wifi browser which is what i'm craving for (my nokia 770 doenst cut it). -- jclyle jclyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
i'm torn between the new ipod and the possibility of the Jive remote from SlimdDvices Jive is implemented in Lua/SDL (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?JiveArchitecture), both of which have already been ported to Mac OS X. Getting Jive running on the Ipod Touch can't be impossible for the community! -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
ezkcdude;225527 Wrote: The other thing I'm wondering about the Touch is whether you could actually stream music from your SlimServer database. *That would freakin' awesome!* Well, certainly those of us using iTunes to organize their music collections should be able to! But given Apple's refusal to have anything to do with flac, I would guess the rest of you will be out of luck I do have to say tho, I'm a little disappointed that it's a flash based player, I had been hoping for the capacity of a hard disc. Cheers, Dave -- DCtoDaylight DCtoDaylight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] So, this new iPod Touch thing
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136850-c,mp3player/article.html . -- haunyack Transporter - BK Reference 200.2 - Vandersteen 3A Signature. (Listening room) SB3 (RWA analog) - Rotel RB 1070 - BW Matrix 805. (Bedroom) Fridgidare - Mirror Pond pale ale - easy chair w/remote - irritated neighbors. haunyack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9721 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38195 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
