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Tweets for the week of 2009-06-28

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Rockbox Sucks for Podcasting

by Nathan on Jun.10, 2009

The other day I noticed my iPod was almost filled up, but should have only been about %50.  So I decided to give Rockbox a try, and manage my own music directory.  I figured it would be easy to just use rsync to synce the Music on my computer with the music on my iPod.  Installation was easy as pie and after a reboot I was using Rockbox.  I immediately went to look for a podcast menu.  To my surprise there was nothing in rockbox for podcasting.  After doing a little Googling I ran across a way to insert a menu into the batabase section.  Which gave me a listing of “All Podcasts”, “New Podcasts”, and “Old Podcasts”.  This was kind of cool, I was able to modify the interface to my liking.  But when I clicked on “All Podcasts” saw about half what I was suppose to.  This was because some podcasters don’t modify the ID3 tags correctly.  After modifying the tags accordingly I still didn’t have all of them.  This was because the database had to be updated.  All this and I finally got podcasts to show up, only to find out bookmarking only works on playlists which I couldn’t get working, other than the dynamic one, which consists of my current directory.  GAAAA!!!!!!!!

List of Suck for Rockbox

  • No podcasting support out of the box.
  • Bookmarking works on playlists, though I can’t verify that because I wasn’t ever able to save a playlist and go back play it again.
  • Battery didn’t seem to charge while plugged in and syncing.
  • Rockbox can’t sleep, only turn off, so you have to wait for it to boot before it can play your track.  Though you can make it continue on start up, which is nice.
  • Every game/app has a different way to exit, and doesn’t ever tell you what it is.

Basically if you want to just play music, you might find this useful.  Though in my weekend of playing with it, I found it to have a huge learning curve.  I’ve gone back to gPodder and gtkpod.  That is until my iPod breaks, in which case I will look for a different podcast device.

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Rant for June 9th 2009

by Nathan on Jun.09, 2009

  • Come on Facebook, you have had this OpenID thing for about a month now, and you still haven’t fixed the delegation part.  It’s like one of the basic parts of OpenID.  How could you even go live with this broke, little alone spend a month not fixing it?
  • Screw you gtkpod.  What does “save selected as playlist” do for me, if I can’t pull said playlist back into my iPod!  While I’m at it, screw you Apple!  Why do you need to make everything more difficult?  You use tons of open-source software, yet you still say, “Use iTunes if you want to manage your iPod”.  I’m about sick of iPods, and probably wont get another if I find something that works better under Linux.
  • I’m confused by acquaintances/family that want to be friends on Facebook.  I post to twitter all day and they get displayed on Facebook, I’m not sure how I feel about these people seeing these updates.  I mean they are open to everyone, but I don’t want to accept these people as friends, then it’s like saying “Yes!!! You are my friend, here is everything about me.”  Where as if they would subscribe to my tweets, I probably wouldn’t even know it.

Sorry all these things kind of came up at once, and I needed to write them down.  The iPod thing has been pissing me off for about a week now, I even tried Rockbox and hated it (post coming up about this).

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