I'm currently working with music from my iPhone playing through my computer. While Apple and iTunes don't allow this natively, FadingRed's Senuti OS X application supports this. You can also transfer music between your iPhone and your computer with the application. This is the way it should work anyway - Apple!
Senuti comes with a 30 day free trial (1000 song limit) or is $18.
Update: iPhone owners may want to check out iPhone your Subaru Outback
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Recently, I bought a 2006 Subaru Outback 2.5i knowing full well a modification would be required to support an iPod. Subaru, like many manufacturers, ships without a tape deck, but unlike many, they ship with a completely custom deck built seamlessly into the dash with other controls for heating, flashers, etc. There is no kit yet available for replacing the stereo.
The problem is, the iPod has been a phenomenon for 2-3 years now and apparently Subaru thinks its fine to continue shipping custom, closed units without an aux patch capability or line in. Even their high end car only supports an mp3 cd player - but no line in or aux.
Ultimately, I chose to install an FM Modulator with a toggle switch to solve my iPod troubles. The FM Modulator is essentially a hard-wired version of Griffin's iTrip. While many iPod-attached FM transmitters perform poorly in city environments, hard wiring the FM modulator to your stereo deck/antenna makes the performance quite good. I first read about this here while searching the net.
Real men mod their own cars. Really smart men know when it's worth the money to hire professionals to mod their cars. For $189.99 plus tax, Magnolia HiFi in Seattle installed an AUDAC FM Modulator ($59.98 on its own for you real men). The resulting quality is excellent.
Pictures and operational characteristics are below:
My friend gave me a CD called Nouvelle Vague - basically 80s cover tunes redone by singers who've never heard them before in a slower jazzy format. It's pretty cool. I especially like the remake of Martin Gore's "In a manner of speaking" - which was a beautiful song originally and now with out the need for prozac.
Their idea was to forget the initial punk or new wave background of each song,keep simple fundamental chords,work with young singers who never heard the orginal versions,and make the quality of original songwriting happen in a completely different way.(bossa nova,jazz style and sixties pop)
Learn more here.
A few weeks ago I happened to download a few Fiona Apple tracks as a preview off of BoingBoing. I really enjoyed them and looked forward to purchasing the album. Apparently, we may never get a chance to - this is an album completed nearly two years ago but never released.
The Chronicle's Who Will Free Fiona Apple is an interesting read on the story of this amazing album. The story points out the whole album is now pretty easy to find on the Web...including this torrent.
If someone at Sony wants me to buy this album, just send me Fiona's paypal address and I'll send the money asap.
Here's the link to Eminem's Mosh video. Nice work.
Note: I still have a problem with how misogynistic and homophobic a lot of his material is.
I think Kellan's review says it well.
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