RTP-area local music and culture

["Kyle Miller" <kyle AT churchkeyrecords.com>]

You can make the Clix play nice with a Mac, as I understand it. I think XNJB
is the tool for the job:

http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/

Ruckus, on the other hand, will not play with your Mac at all, unless you
want to run Windows on your Mac. Ross' description of the service is pretty
much how I understand it as well. It does in fact use MS "plays for sure"
technology, which is slang for "probably doesn't play on your music player".
People wanting to get around their DRM to keep tracks permanently and/or use
them on another device would have to re-encode the audio to another format,
which would probably not be worth the time or quality loss.

Kyle

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com>
wrote:

> But it says windows only. How do I integrate it into my Mac world?
> Plus, only 4gb. But I really like the idea of having an fm tuner, and
> I really, really, really like the idea of a voice recorder. How good
> is the recording quality, and does it have line-in?
>
> d
>
> .........................
> www.rattlejar.com
>
> On Feb 28, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I love my gizmo.
> >
> > http://www.iriveramerica.com/prod/ultra/clix/index.aspx
> >
> > You don't really need windows to use it.
> >
> > chris
> >
> > grady wrote:
> >> I'm under the impression that you can pay an extra $20/semester (on
> >> top
> >> of the $9/month to use their windows-only required proprietary
> >> player)
> >> to get some kind of DRM-laden takeaway tracks that can be used on
> >> portable devices. I believe it's Microsoft Plays-for-sure DRM, which
> >> does in fact mean that it's not compatible, as Kyle says, with iPod
> >> *or*
> >> with Microsoft's own Zune. Heh.
> >>
> >> But surely all the college kids have moved past the passe iPod, since
> >> their parents all use them, and are onto the more cutting-edge
> >> players
> >> like the iRiver Clix.
> >>
> >> Or maybe it's the parents who're smart enough to see thru the Apple
> >> marketing hype. The two Clix users I know are both over the age of
> >> 25.
> >> Damn nice player, too.
> >>
> >> Kyle Miller wrote:
> >>> Since we're (sort of) on the subject, Ruckus works with neither
> >>> Zune nor
> >>> iPod/iTunes. I have no idea what UNC kids are into these days, but
> >>> I think
> >>> that would likely limit its popularity.
> >>> Kyle
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Heather Russell <
> heatherrussell AT nc.rr.com
> >>> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Crackheads are all about the Zune...
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >>>> [mailto:ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of James
> >>>> Hepler
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:30 AM
> >>>> To: RTP-area local music and culture
> >>>> Subject: Re: Did Ruckus Kill Schoolkids?
> >>>>
> >>>> Oh shit.  I thought you would have said iPods.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:27 AM, carlos <rocofresi AT gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Feb 28, 9:22 am, hepst... AT gmail.com (James Hepler) wrote:
> >>>>>> Which is the unfair stereotype, for the record?  That
> >>>>>> crackheads steal
> >>>>> CD's
> >>>>>> out of cars or that they consign them at Back Door records?  I
> >>>>>> just
> >>>> want
> >>>>> to
> >>>>> Crackheads dont steal CDs anymore.  They only steal MP3s now.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> make sure I'm up to date.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:53 AM, johnI
> >>>>>> <johniwanis... AT iwaniszek.com>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Feb 27, 3:20 pm, gr... AT ibiblio.org (grady) wrote:
> >>>>>>>> There are enough crackheads in Chapel Hill stealing CDs out of
> >>>> cars
> >>>>> to
> >>>>>>>> provide a steady supply of cheap used merch? Just a guess . . .
> >>>>>>> And one that rests on an unfair stereotype.
> >>>>>>> Oh.  You made a funny.
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