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[Panajev2001a]

Yes, that is true, but you should be able to create, on the PC, directories and put music on there by copy and paste using it as a Mass Storage drive, right ?

Couldn't you set iTunes not to automatically keep track/manage your music directories and treat the iPod purely as a Mass Storage drive or is it a fault of the driver Apple installs for the iPod which hides this more complex management of the drive ?

There must be a way of just creating a simple <drive_letter>:\MY_MUSIC root folder and get music into and out of it...

 

[Mejilan]

To my knowledge, you CANNOT tell iTunes or the iPod to order your music as YOU see fit, for obviously reasons. However, you CAN dump your music (tags, names, and folders) intact onto the iPod's hdd via it's disk mode and thus (presumably) make it accessible to the X360. However, that music won't be recognized by the iPod (or iTunes), and thus wouldn't be playable from the actual unit!

Though, there is an app you can dump onto the iPod called SharePod which, when run from the iPod itself, pulls up an iTunes like interface, reads the iPod compatible music on your iPod, and allows you to dump it, WITH proper tags and within proper folders, onto any computer. I use it all the time (and it even works with videos on the new 5Gen iPods!)

I wonder if someone will be able to make a similar app to interface with the X360 to grant it direct access to the iPod ready music...?

 

[Panajev2001a]

To my knowledge, you CANNOT tell iTunes or the iPod to order your music as YOU see fit, for obviously reasons. However, you CAN dump your music (tags, names, and folders) intact onto the iPod's hdd via it's disk mode and thus (presumably) make it accessible to the X360. However, that music won't be recognized by the iPod (or iTunes), and thus wouldn't be playable from the actual unit!

Though, there is an app you can dump onto the iPod called SharePod which, when run from the iPod itself, pulls up an iTunes like interface, reads the iPod compatible music on your iPod, and allows you to dump it, WITH proper tags and within proper folders, onto any computer. I use it all the time (and it even works with videos on the new 5Gen iPods!)

I wonder if someone will be able to make a similar app to interface with the X360 to grant it direct access to the iPod ready music...?

I think this is what MS is doing to stream data from the iPod's: notice MS's guy comment about Apple changing things in iTunes or in the iPod's firmware to break streaming from correctly working so to start a "patch-to-counter-fix" game between MS and Apple ? Well, it should give some hints about what MS has been doing to make this work.

 

[Stinkles]

Will 360 play home-ripped AAC files? If not, this feature is useless to me. Everything on my iPod is 320kbps AAC.

Yes.Home ripped work fine. MP3, AAC etc. And so far, the tunes I bought from the Apple store seem to work fine too. So I don't really get this whole post. Will tru a new song, see if that causes problems. Hang on...

 

[Mejilan]

Fairplay isn't challenging to get around, but unless you're going to burn and re-encode it, it's actually a pretty time-consuming conversion. Definitely not 1-to-1 on most machines as far as I've heard.

However, your point's ridiculous, as there's no way Microsoft would break the DMCA by subverting Apple's DRM. That's kind of illegal.

People need to find something worth discussing in the realm of possibilities.

Oooh no. I meant, if people REALLY wanted to get their iPod music to work with the X360, it'd be relatively simple (if not quick and easy) to "make" your IMS music compatible, as it were.

 

[shantyman]

None of this is really news- Apple protected soongs from the ITMS only work on iPods and Macs (and the ROKR). However, I can think of no reason apple would not want the music to stream though the X Box. That would be like preventing people from using a stereo.

If Apple decides to restrcit the iPod on X360, then about 12 people will be using their MP3 players with the 360.

 

[cvxfreak]

Oooh no. I meant, if people REALLY wanted to get their iPod music to work with the X360, it'd be relatively simple (if not quick and easy) to "make" your IMS music compatible, as it were.

I believe that's possible yes, but I doubt the special iTunes format files, m4a and m4p, would work on an Xbox 360 themselves. I may be wrong, and m4p files may indeed work, but I haven't seen confirmation.

 

[Mudwhistle]

Do any of you guys actually buy music from the iTMS anyway?

 

[Mejilan]

Hell no. Proprietary formats suck.

 

[Dilbert]

Do any of you guys actually buy music from the iTMS anyway?

Yeah.

 

[raYne]

Do any of you guys actually buy music from the iTMS anyway?

:lol

Oh, you were serious? Well... :lol

 

[Mudwhistle]

:lol

Oh, you were serious? Well... :lol

No - I wasn't. I'm just curious as to why this is an issue to anyone.

 

[cvxfreak]

Do any of you guys actually buy music from the iTMS anyway?

Occasionally. Mostly from the Japan store.

 

[DarienA]

No - I wasn't. I'm just curious as to why this is an issue to anyone.

.... uh because a shitload of people buy music off of ITMS.

 

[KingV]

Hell no. Proprietary formats suck.

iTunes is actually a really good solution for digital distribution. You actually can do pretty much whatever you want with the songs. Hell, you can burn the albums to a CD and rip them back into iTunes as unprotected songs if it's that much of an issue for you.