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5 Sep 2024 05:20:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Open source software is always stable  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 19 Oct 2009 12:26:50
Message: <4adc934a$1@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:50:23 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> Just need to turn off AutoPlay. But still, it's not very ethical to
> hijack somebody else's property to protect your own interests. (In other
> situations I believe that's called "theft".) And it's not like it's
> going to stop the geniune criminals - only the paying customers.

Yep, it's that "I'm not going to pay money to people who think it's OK to 
take control of my computer without my consent".

>> I need to look into that and see how it compares on my iPod.  Rockbox
>> is supposed to be able to play the format...
> 
> RockBox plays that format on my iAudio M5L... but then so did the
> manufacturer's original firmware. ;-)

Should support it here then as well. :-)

> Personally, I use CDex for ripping. Put in a disk, tell it what the
> tracks are called, hit rip. It generates the Vorbis files, names them,
> and encodes the metadata into them. Copy and play...

I use grip myself. :-)

Jim


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