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(responding to this after such a long while because I just ran
into the same situation -- more on that in a moment.)
Mark Fowler wrote:
> Yes, I've heard this bit of this track before. [...]
It does a pretty good job with Audible material, but for some reason
doesn't bother with anything else. As they already have the foo in
there to do it, it's bloody annoying that they keep it restricted
to Audible stuff.
> Thanks for the excellent seek interface too. I like the only way I can
> fast forward or rewind in a track is by dragging the slider onscreen.
This, however, does not appear to be the case. You don't have to
drag the thing, just click on the spot where you want it to go. It's
not ideal for fine-tuning, but OK for finding the right general bit.
I found this stuff out for myself last night because of an annoying
"feature" on the iPod. It seems that if you copy a file off it which
contains Audible material, the file is deleted.
Specifically: I loaded my iPod up with music I wanted to take to work.
There were also some audiobooks on there, but I wasn't planning on
using them at work, just the music.
So I get to work, plug the iPod in, pull up a terminal, and dig around
to the music directory (/Volumes/Musicbeast/iPod_Control/Music, from
memory) and cp -r the lot to the internal disk on this iMac. Then I
tell iTunes to import it all.
Works great.
Then I get home, and when I go to bed I want to listen to some of the
current audiobook. And they're all gone. Along, of course, with my
place in the books, so I got to re-load them from my Mac and then use
iTunes to find the right spots again.
Quite irritating, and I was feeling plenty of hate at the time
though I have perhaps calmed down since.
Matt
--
"First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds
language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because
I no verbs." - Peter Ellis on afp
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