Tuesday, April 29, 2003

I have seen the future of music and its name is iTunes. Apple's new online music-buying system is everything Napster promised to be -- cheap, easy and, best of all, legal. [Salon.com] 8:09:26 PM

Palm Desktop 4.1 adds 'Send to Handheld Droplet'. Palm Inc. has released an updated version of their Palm Desktop 4.1 software for Mac. The new version is ready for download from Palm's Web site now. [MacCentral] -- So far, this seems to have cleared up my Palm syncing problems. Except, yet once again, only after first installation. It does not survive sleep, logout, restart, shutdown. 8:08:54 PM

Apple Music Event Webcast now available via QuickTime. Monday's Apple Music Event at San Francisco's Moscone Center was covered live by MacCentral, but if you'd rather see for yourself what happened, you can now watch a Webcast of the event courtesy of Apple. Apple is hosting the MPEG-4 Webcast in QuickTime. [MacCentral] 8:02:22 PM

Apple to launch new music TV ads [The Macintosh News Network] 8:01:53 PM

Easiest Way to Import Cover Art Into iTunes? [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion] 8:01:27 PM

Busy music servers An early indication of the service's initial success, the new iTunes Music Store has apparently buckled under pressure for a few readers, resulting in slow transfer speeds and occasionally the following error: "We could not complete your Music Store request (504) There was an error in the Music Store. Please try again later." One MacFixIt reader describes another problem caused by overloaded servers: "I was unable to set up my Music Store account. The system took the data from my Apple Store account, which all looked correct. However, when I tried to input the requested credit card 'security code,' I got a response that said the Apple Music Store couldn't process my order and to try later." 7:50:29 PM

Music store sign-in is caps sensitive If you are having problems signing in to the new iTunes music store, make sure that you are not using random capital letters in your e-mail address or other login information. 7:48:57 PM

Playing songs over the Internet One of the most unheralded new features of iTunes 4 is the ability to share your playlists not just via Rendezvous, but also directly over the Internet. If you're behind a firewall, simply make sure the port #3689 is open on your router, pointing to your machine. Then go into your preferences and allow other users to connect to your machine. Then, your friends can pull down from "Advanced" to "Connect to Shared Music..." One caveat, however, is that you can't listen to other people's purchased music via Rendezvous (or the "connect to shared music"... feature). 7:48:20 PM

Off the hype meter. Industry watcher Jon Oltsik offers his nominations for technology categories in which the elevation of hype has become an art form. [CNET News.com] 7:48:17 AM

Walking through Apple iTunes 4 and Music Store. [kuro5hin.org] 7:47:42 AM