Well, actually, I don’t know. I think you might have to slide your finger across the display, or search for calamari, or something like that. But I hope to know on Friday as I wait in line with all the other fanboys to try and get one.
You know, purely to be able to intelligently inform my listeners how they can subscribe to the show should they get their hands on one themselves. It’s completely a business purchase.
And while you’re waiting for the phone-that-cannot-possibly-live-up-to-the-amount-of-hype-it’s-receiving, have a listen to the ApplePhoneShow, hosted by Scott Bourne, one of the hosts of MacBreak Weekly – a show I never miss!
LOL, such a Mac Geek.
I’m guilty too, but don’t get excited by telephones. Will look forward to hearing about this though.
I’m long-time Coverville subscriber, prompted by Dave’s Lounge. But I’ve become concerned about your Apple-centric perspective.
I became concerned when trying to help someone else subscribe to your feed. What concerned me – your approach seemed to be Apple-all-the-way.
Although my friends are themselves Apple-all-the-way too, with a Mac Mini dedicated to downloading and streaming tunes, we couldn’t make your stream work for some Apple iTunes-specific reason . Shock horror!
But what are our options? Any other feed I would subscribe through Juice and sync into an iTunes playlist. But where is your actual podcast? Everything is Apple iTunes-centric and Apple AAC!
We could stream individual episodes embedded as Quicktime files direct from your website by browsing the RSS directly, but not podcast them through any means unless the Apple hive mind saw fit, which today it didn’t.
It strikes me that with your AAC and iTunes-only subscription options, you are excluding the growing population of users who can’t make Apple products work for them.
Why can’t people make Apple products work for them with digital music? Because of their politically motivated association with the major labels.
If you’d like to see examples, then take a look at http://xlml.com/aehso/2006/06/17/frontrow-drm-grrr/ – a problem my mac-mini-buying-friends also experienced in the last 24 hours specifically from adopting Apple products to manage their music!
After reading this, you can imagine the joy of trying to personally demonstrate how amazing Front Row can be, with “Your tune is not authorised” behaviour emanating from the Apple hive mind.
I’m beginning to be ashamed to be an Apple advocate. Perhaps you should too, especially since there appears to be no other option provided from your podcast.
I have, (literally over the last hour or so), been singing your praises as a foresighted, fully-connected guru of future music.
Communicating this to my friends is massively retarded by your deep commercial associations with Apple, even to Mac Mini users, beacuse WE CAN’T SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR PODCAST.
You offer an amazing, free, quality, music syndication service which deserves compensation. But can you please offer another option outside the Apple hive mind?
I’ll personally pay you $25 if another option is available.
Frankly my friends are beginning to lose patience with the pseudo-fascist regime [you can remove this bit if you want] which Apple implements for global music control, not because of any deep moral and commercial analysis, but merely as a result of their personal experience of buying and attempting to use Apple products.
You should isolate yourself from the Apple hive mind before it’s too late!
Cefn,
Thanks for your email – glad you brought it up!
I actually am not as Apple-centric as I might make it seem. I use both platforms, although admittedly, I use the Mac more often. I also have both a Zune and an iPod. I personally prefer the iPod’s interface, but that’s just a personal preference. I happen to really like the size of the Zune’s screen. But that’s neither here nor there.
If you’re having a problem subscribing, no matter which platform, let’s get that resolved! There are plenty of great options for Windows users who don’t want to install iTunes but do want to subscribe to the show. Using the “Subscribe” link above, you can link to two I recommend, WinPodder and Juice, which will both do a great job of downloading the shows from the subscription feed.
The MP3 feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/coverville) can be used with any RSS feed reader (NetNewsWire, NewsFire, etc.), or either of the two podcast receivers I mentioned above. The separate AAC feed takes advantage of a special feature that Apple includes with iTunes, which allws listeners to navigate through the podcast via chapters. It’s not an Apple-speficic technology, and I wish more other digital audio players would take advantage of it!
I recommend you use the MP3 feed – it’ll work with just about anything! And thanks for your comments – it shows me that I’m not promoting the MP3 feed enough, and there may be other users like yourself that, from a cursory glance, aren’t seeing the right feed for them.
If you have any problems connecting, please let me know. I’ll take the time to help you if it means I’m making it easy for you to subscribe and get each show!
Brian
I don’t really see the pseudo fascism etc from Apple. If they were globally dominant, maybe, but they are tiny compared to Microsoft.
Apple dominate the global music player market because they brought a product to market that delivered lots of high quality music, had good battery life, was simple to use, it works pretty much all the time and they have a few geniuses in marketing and design (our own Jonathan Ive for one, designer of the i-pod and iMac).
Microsoft however waited 5 years to bring out a player that is, frankly, not very good and comes in a shit-brown colour. All they have to do is bring a product to market that is as user-friendly and good looking as the i-pod and low ball it to be cheaper and maybe they have a chance. But Microsoft know they are beat, with Apple having an 80% share of the market.
Apple products are often not Apple Specific, i-tunes, Safari and Bonjour being good examples. I have never had a problem using them on a windows or Apple Machine.
I don’t know anything that is easier for bringing music to you than i-tunes and i thought that when I was all Windows too. I guess if you are anti-Apple, you’ll have to find alternative options, but they won’t be as good.
Of course Apple wants to increase market share of the PC market and continue the domination of the media player market – what’s wrong with that?
Stepping away from all the Apple/non-Apple talk, I wish you good luck tomorrow, Brian! I’d love to hear your take on it all.
Thanks!
So Brian, did you queue up for one?
Interested to hear about the browser. From a TV demo I just saw, the whole zooming thing reminded me of the Wii browser, and that’s not good!