Re: iTunes

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From: Bill Page
Subject: Re: iTunes
Date: 00:16 on 13 Oct 2006

I think anyone who uses a lossless codec gets what they deserve. Don't
be surprised if it begins to rain toads.

On 10/13/06, Nicholas Clark <nick@xxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Gah. How hard is it to play a track without dropping out?
>
> Nicholas Clark
>
> PS This hate may be mis-aimed. The playing field isn't quite level, as the
>    tracks are in Apple lossless encoding, so lots of disk to read, and the
>    MacBook is doing 'sudo port install subversion' with 9Gb of VM now.
>    So maybe I should be hating non-realtime OSes. But, *how* much power and
>    developer effort is there in all this hardware and software, yet it can't
>    even schedule things as reliably as a wiggly groove in a pat of vinyl?
>

There's stuff above here

Nicholas Clark 20:53 on 12 Oct 2006
- Re: iTunes Bill Page 00:16 on 13 Oct 2006
  - A. Pagaltzis 00:31 on 13 Oct 2006
    - too deep to show
  - Martin Ebourne 00:35 on 13 Oct 2006
  - Chris Nandor 00:55 on 13 Oct 2006
- Tony Finch 01:57 on 13 Oct 2006
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 02:31 on 13 Oct 2006
Re: Re: iTunes Bill Page 01:10 on 13 Oct 2006
- Joe Mahoney 01:16 on 13 Oct 2006
- Re: iTunes A. Pagaltzis 02:22 on 13 Oct 2006
  - Chris Nandor 02:47 on 13 Oct 2006
    - too deep to show
Michael Jinks 00:29 on 14 Oct 2006
- Edmund von der Burg 09:37 on 14 Oct 2006

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