brainstorms

Thursday August 11, 2005

itunes with freedb...

pinky, are you pondering what i am pondering?
narf, i think so brain, but how could i get itunes to work with freedb and still help you conquer the world?

i find the current itunes cddb customer lock repulsive but not unexpected from apple. also in keeping with this mode of business, gracenote (what a whopping misnomer) has dropped support for the original cddb1 protocol, which freedb also uses, and switched to a proprietary protocol. so the current dns workaround to use freedb instead of cddb no longer works. [interesting note from feurio about cddb2. also description and reference implementation of an alternative: compact disk metadata protocol]

i will be blunt. i never liked itunes. every passing day, i like it less, and wish for its eventual irrelevance like safari.

[addendum: geoff wondered if i am a mac user. my daily laptop is an ibook; all my photography and graphic work goes through macs. [see here and here for some notes] on the other hand, all software development is done on solaris, freebsd or netbsd, and sometimes on suse. i would disagree about browsers, but that will have to wait for another entry.]