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- signal15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14http://last.fm
This adds social networking to iTunes to a degree, and it's a great thing to have. - RockTheWall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Everyone block that *****; the link goes to another Loose Change blog.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11wow, i can finally join "The Social"! Like on TV with the snowboarders!! It's gonna F'ING ROCK!!!
- bbcountach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6mtv hasnt played a good chunk of music since... the 80's? its all super sweet 16, and pimp my ride and stuff like that. i hardly EVER see any music vids.
- consonance, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10I have blocked more spammers in the past three days than I have in the 10 months since I registered a Digg account. Spammers and conspiracy theorists, you better GTFO while you still can; I know where the block button is.
- ahutch1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6something like this already exists, its called last.fm...
- jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"You're now blocked too!"
I am so sad...
but I'm more interested in iTunes social networking then talking about how spammers suck. - Joe091, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4As mentioned above, http://www.last.fm is pretty much the *****. Keeps track of your music whether you use iTunes, WMP, or Winamp, you can post your top 10 lists on web pages, and it actually has a pretty big social aspect as well.
- andyhunti, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Call me cynical but would that be the faint whiff of feature creep?
- clackerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i'm not down with this social music trend. i just want my music player to play music and make me look like a rock star.
- jwdav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The *iPod* doesn't actually have any DRM built into it - it simply makes it hard(er) to get music on or off of it without using iTunes. iTunes is where the DRM management happens - it allows or disallows playing and syncing of DRM protected songs on the computer and iPod. If you can get a playable file onto an iPod, the iPod will play it, but it will be removed at next Sync, as there is no way to get it back into iTunes, and even if you could, an unauthorized DRM type file would not play or re-sync using iTunes.
This approach may make it tougher for Apple to implement iPod to iPod sharing in one way, as unlike Zune, iPod has no built in DRM system, except what it inherits from iTunes. On the other hand, since the iPod can't add DRM of it's own, it couldn't mess up your non-DRM file transfers...which is probably exactly why Apple hasn't implemented iPod-iPod transfers. - shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6that author's picture reminds me of Stephen Hawking
- Madmod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3sigh* go find a forum
- fallenone05, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Welcome to the Social...
- doublemazaa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2get a firewire cable. Reboot powerbook while holding the T key. With your g5 on, hook your G5 to the powerbook with the firewire cable. You'll see the powerbook's Hard drive appear on the G5's desktop. Insert DVD into G5, run installer, and choose the powerbook's hard drive to install to. You're done.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5FFS, doesn't that moron have anything better to do?
- clinko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just use the program I wrote for iTunes to do the same. http://www.clinko.com
Sometimes it's depressing being a programmer watching people make billions off of what I did years ago. And I can't afford to even redesign (NOT CODE) my site.
Anyone want to make me a logo? - UrbanVoyeur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3www.ilike.com
- wishdigital, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3there is a plug-in for itunes called iLike... it is a social network component driven by a very 2.0 website and itunes 'drawer'... i have discovered a lot of great music and it does an amazing job of recommending FREE DRM FREE MP3s that are similar to whatever you are listening too at the time. I don't think apple needs to integrate social networking into itunes, since it's already been done.
http://www.ilike.com - sovietmedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@pants428
You search Last.fm for Radiohead and you have every album by every artist in the first 100 results? You must be really rich to afford all that music. - nayr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2while your app may be the next killer one of the 22nd century, don't spam.
- nayr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I hope not.
- alternative724, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1buried as spam
- crazyboy1121, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Welcome To The Social...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't understand. iTunes has a 'customers who bought also bought' which for me has turned me on to a lot of new music. What would this 'social networking' add that this article speaks of?
- areric, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2if you want some social networking stuff in iTunes check out iLike. It offers suggestions based on similar peoples preferences and lets ou see what your friends are listening to. Also half the suggestions are pay links and half are free mp3s
- jeromeerome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree. iLike is great. I have been using it for two months now and like it much better than Last.FM since it is completely integrated with iTunes. I think it would be cool if Apple did create social features for iTunes but could they do a better job than the 3rd party tools already available. I guess that is the ultimate question.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1here here.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My only problem is that Last.fm never seems to suggest something I don't already have: e.g. I search for Radiohead, and the first 100 results are stuff that I already have...
- nayr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I beg to digress. If you use Senuti, you can get music from the ipod to itunes. but through itunes itself? nope, you can't.
- clinko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@nayr: How would you know the logo if I didn't give the site?
- nandop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0iLike and Last.fm are two (great) services but not built-in features and that doesn't properly count for the product. My guess is that social environments or connections to already existent social environments will become mandatory to the main services / apps / products that inherently have lots of people interested or virtually "connected" (as in with similar interests). Obviously with an "opt in" mode, so each user can listen to his/her iPod connected or disconnected of the social ambient.
- nayr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1no. Get it fixed.
besides, how would you get the image if the drive is broken? - Fluidity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Apples DRM system doesn't allow for an easy solution, I guess the ipod would need to be able to strip the current drm from a song and apply the right one for the player it was being sent to ableit a time or play limited version (which i don't think AAC files can currently do as you can't rent like you can with playforsure).
Certainly would be a much better feature for ipods as I'd love a sansa connect or a zune but in all liklihood would struggle to find someone else with one to share files with and its not a feature you want to use for the sake of it, it's one you want to be there when you think I'd love to be able to send that song to you. Ideally across any wifi enabled player across formats but at least one which lots of people own. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1there are like zombies - i keep blocking but they keep coming back - where is my chainsaw?
i think they just like ***** up the first tread. please only one response to loose change ***** then move on
also iTunes realizes it fed when DRM MP3 sales hit the net - tbresch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I have a G5 on which I could make the disc image
- zhulien, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0gee, I wonder when Nintendo will be sued because the Nintendo shop only sells games that work on Nintendos? perhaps Nintendo have a monopoly just like Apple has in selling software for their machine?
- jtjdt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Yah, the page that this digg links to, is pretty annoying, and the guy is a moron. iTunes already has iMixes that people already share, a Just for you section which compares your purchases with other users, a mini store which suggests music based on your library, and reviews which anyone can submit. iTunes is already social enough.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6So you think its quite okay that I've had to block 5-6 spammers in the past 2 days. More than since I started using digg over a year ago?
The ***** digg admins are doing absolutely nothing about this, these ***** just keep on creating new accounts and spamming more and more!
So shut the ***** up! Go back to your spam-riddled emails and what not and stop telling others that they have no problem.
You're now blocked too! - tbresch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I know this is off-topic (and reinforces why digg needs generalized forums)...
But I'm trying to put a copy of Mac OSX on an old g4 laptop. its DVD drive is broken so i can't load the CD/DVD to install...
Can I make an image of the disc(s), email them to myself, and install it somehow? Thanks! - Madmod, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1i could care less because right now half the world listens to the music on mtv and nothing else so it would be the same.
Sad. - jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4All you people bitching about that guy is way worse then the link that you were dumb enough to follow. As of now, 80% of the comments are bitching about him...You are the people who suck and are just as bad as spammers.
- greekgoat91, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3@itsalright2
shut the ***** up about 9/11, it wasn't an inside job, get the ***** over it you piece of *****. Not only do you claim *****, but you must spam digg with it as well. I don't come here for spam.
-a fed up digger
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