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I wish I had this much free time on my hands. (WARNING: movie link may take too long to download, limiting amusement factor)

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In researching the iTrip recently , I thought: Hmm… I bet there’s a user forum out there where people have posted which frequencies they find to be the best in their area! But apparently, no one else has had this bright idea.

All my Googling seems to turn up is commentary from people that have bought it and either love it or hate it. Frankly, I can see how someone in a metro area like Boston or NYC is going to hate it. If there are 50 radio stations that you can find on your dial, chances are a device such as this will do you little to no good. Let’s get down w/ some realistic expectations people! The iTrip doesn’t suck — population density sucks!

Anyway, back to my original point: No one seems to have done this yet. This is one of those projects that writes itself.

Search Functionality. Search by zip code (?) or route. Something along those lines. Feed it a starting point and find the best frequency for your town. Or for your commute.

Everything after that seems to be details. Basic user account management and the sale of ad space.

Something about 1,650 Duke freshmen with iPods frightens me. As if these little bastards weren’t privileged enough… Or was I thinking of Wake Forest…? At least they’ll have the trendiest Spanish student exercises in the country.

SCENE: Dimly lit bar; Miller Lite pool lamp is the main source of illumination. (Note, people are smoking, so it can’t be Burlington.) It is early and not yet crowded but starting to fill up.

I approach a friend of mine that I spot there and ask how he’s been lately. He tells me “not well” but that he’s working a half-way decent hustle that should at least get him out of the hole. When I ask him about it he is hesitant but eventually caves: “I figured out how to convert all these MP3s to ring tones and sell them to the Amish.”

This morning, Boards of Canada’s “The Color of Fire” get the nomination for Creepiest Track Ever. I … looooooooooooove … youuuuuuuu … !!! Let’s just stop right there.

Hand-powered webserver? Just… Wow.

CONCLUSION: Something about that version. Well, maybe it’s not a conclusion b/c I can’t say that I was 100% thorough or exhaustive in this troubleshooting process. Sometimes you just have to take things on faith, I guess…

Based on the fact that KetelOne and BloodyNinja could talk the talk to each other and share music … and based on the fact that I’d disabled my software firewall, anti-virus software, and half the system services known to man, the only route I could see left was with the version. So I uninstalled iTunes from Detonator-3 (much to my chagrin) and re-installed the most recent version from Apple.com/iTunes (after a reboot) and breathed a sigh of relief when it still recognized all my songs with all their metadata. However (comma) still no dice on the Library sharing. So I took a gamble on the iTunes installer app I had stored from a while back — totally unsure if (1) it was the 4.5 version I needed and (2) whether/not it would need to hot-D/L anything from an Apple server to run at all. Crossing my fingers, I re-installed the “old” version and … got … exactly … what … I … needed:

Finally, the musical lovin’ I deserve.

Let that be a lesson to you: Don’t fucking upgrade.

Let that be a lesson to Apple: Fucking up the Windows version isn’t going to sell more G5s.

They did it. Apple sold 100 million songs via the iTunes Music store. It’s neat to see all the songs that ppl d/l’d to help them win iPods. I have to say though… It’s nice to see that a song with a little class was the winning track. And does anyone else find it appropriately ironic that it was the Dangermouse remix?