July 12th, 2005
I was disappointed to discover that while it has no problem interpreting podcasts distributed as RSS 2.0 with <enclosure> tags, iTunes completely ignores Atom feeds with <link rel="enclosure"> elements. In fact, it’s pretty darned insensitive when it comes to parsing feeds in general. (Boo-urns, as Chris would say.)
See for yourself with my simple demonstration podcasts (don’t get used to it; this is the only podcast I’ll ever do):
Podcast (Atom) / Podcast (RSS)
July 12th, 2005
Hey, if you’re out there, operating a weblog that sends trackbacks, care to send one to this URL? (Yes, I know this means you’ll likely have to create a throwaway blog post to do it. But it’s for Science™, so perhaps you’ll indulge me.)
Update: Pings have been turned off. See trackback.cs.rice.edu to see what became of the research.
July 12th, 2005
It’s a good thing I didn’t put my shiny new NIN DualDisc into my car’s CD player or my PowerBook: apparently the extra-thick disks can get scratched by slot-loading CD players
and jammed in slot-loading CD-ROMs. Thanks for breaking our stuff, Sony!
Also, the DualDisc ripped at about 1.5x. A normal CD rips at about ten times that speed. What gives?
