By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: June 1, 2007
Friday, 1 June 2007
- ‘Wherefore’ Means Why ★
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Does not mean “where are you”. My lesson of the day. Thanks to a bunch of readers for pointing this out.
eNotes’s explanation of the famous line from Romeo and Juliet.
- More on the iTunes 7.2 Buy-Burn-Rip Bug ★
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More from Christopher Breen, confirming that it’s a bug:
Yesterday, I noted that iTunes 7.2 had trouble syncing certain MP3 files to an iPod. It appears that this is a bug. […]
The bug appears to take the form of some problem with the iTunes music library, causing these specific tracks to be deemed incompatible with the iPod. You can put things right by recreating your iTunes library.
- Playlist: iTunes 7.2 Disallows Buy-Burn-Rip DRM Loophole ★
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Christopher Breen:
If you burn a playlist of iTunes’ protected music to a CD in iTunes 7.2 and then rip that CD in the MP3 format (a trick people often use to remove the tracks’ copy protection), those MP3 tracks won’t copy to an iPod. Try, and you’ll be told that the tracks are incompatible with the iPod.
This is not an issue with earlier versions of iTunes.
Boy, is that shitty. The workaround is to burn the CD to MP3 using software other than iTunes. I wonder how iTunes is identifying these CD tracks? Maybe this is just a bug?
Update: Apparently the problem only occurs when you try to rip to MP3 format, specifically — if you rip from CD back to plain (non-DRM) AAC, it still works just fine. This really sounds like a bug, not a deliberate limitation.