[geeks] Plopcasting

velociraptor velociraptor at gmail.com
Thu Dec 29 14:19:11 CST 2005


On 12/28/05, Jonathan C. Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
>
>
> Except that the entire point of this operation is to have it 100%
> automated.  There's not much point to an automated system that needs
> constant babysitting and finger-poking.  There's also no real reason
> that something like this should be anything but.  Radio stations run
> like clockwork; schedules are set months in advance; file-rotation isn't
> black magic; RSS isn't voodoo.
>
> It's always the stupid software getting in the way and being useless.
>
> > Not sure what else to use.
>
> Well, I'm reading the ID3v2 technical documentations, and it appears
> that you can actually stick images in ID3 tags now, which is more than a
> little silly.  So that's probably what needs doing.  Hopefully id3lib
> will let me do that.
>
> It just really, Really, REALLY bothers me that Apple would go through
> the trouble of extending the RSS schema and then not have their tools
> utilize those extensions!  That goes double for Apple -documenting- how
> things should be done and then not respecting them!

File a bug!  Bugs apply to documentation, just as well to software.
You just need a free developer account to file it.  From what I've
read, Apple prides itself on their documentation for developers, so
that, at least, should get attention.

=Nadine=



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