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Archive for the ‘Windows Media Player’ Category

June 18th, 2008

Storage and Attachment of Album Cover Art

I sure wish that the images for CD covers on albums were stored as embedded information within each MP3 instead of as separate files in the directory. If you really want to start thinking of your MP3 collection like your old-school CD collection (can you believe I just used “old-school” and CD collection in […]

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November 19th, 2007

Oh Look, Another iTunes Update

Look! It’s another bloated iTunes update!
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September 19th, 2007

iTunes + QuickTime Bloat AGAIN!

It’s been 7 days since I last wrote about the Apple Software Update program repeatedly downloading a huge update. After I wrote that post it did it again, and now today it’s downloading again!
What the heck is Apple doing?
Why is QuickTime still separate from iTunes anyway. I can understand being able to download QuickTime […]

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September 12th, 2007

Apple Bloat

Microsoft has its problems, nobody is arguing that here. But these constant version updates and huge downloads for the new version are extremely irritating!
Why in the world do I have to download and install a whole new copy of the software for an update?
At least I hope that’s a whole new copy at […]

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September 1st, 2007

Sony Moves Walkman Products to Microsoft Windows Media Technology

Received this e-mail letting me know that Sony announced their decision to move their Walkman products to the Windows Media Technology platform.
Today Sony announced its intent to move to a Windows Media Technology platform for Walkman® products in the United States, Canada and Europe. We strongly believe that the decision to embrace a more […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment