On more than one occasion I've had the device tell me the SD card was 'potentially corrupt' which caused a momentary panic - I ripped it out, stuck it in a USB adaptor for my Mac, and had to dig through the hidden folders via the Terminal and judiciously rm -rf some evil stuff. Not an app crash, not a glitch and unmount, but a full-on kernel panic, and device hard reboot. I can't copy more than a couple of hundred MB of data without the Nx1 crashing hard. On the Nexus One, you can plug in via USB, then swipe down the USB notifier, press 'use USB storage' and the SD card inside the Nx1 will mount on the Mac as a writable mass storage device. It relies on the USB filesystem driver for the Android devices. I'd normally be really wary of this type of software, but apparently Jon Lech Johanssen (aka DVD Jon) is behind it, and he's one of the good guys WRT media freedom and DRM, so I've downloaded and tried it out. Someone pointed out doubleTwist which is meant to do this job - iTunes for Android, if you like. Statements by DoubleTwist's founder, however, confirm that the software will do this, but is only capable of converting songs that you are authorized to play.Ī Mac OS X client and iPhone web-app are expected in Q2 2008, and the software is free.So I've had some issues with Apple Lossless music files on my Nexus One, and just getting the music across to the Nexus One is a bit of a pain in the arse (remove SD card, find adaptor, connect to Mac, find suitable folder, copy files across, unmount, try out in Nexus One, etc.) - no 'sync' of playlists possible as yet. The official DoubleTwist site appears to downplay this functionality, only listing mp3, aac/m4a, wma, and wav amongst supported audio formats. Any file can be selected, dragged, and dropped into DoubleTwist to be synched up to a separate device, or shared with other users you've "friended" who also use DoubleTwist.Īccording to Cnet, DoubleTwist will also import and convert protected AACs (purchased iTunes songs) into MP3s so they will be playable by other devices. When a device is plugged into a PC (Windows XP and Vista only right now, Mac OS X coming soon), DoubleTwist launches and recognizes all the media files on the device. Our goal is to provide a simple and well integrated solution that the average consumer can use to eliminate the headaches associated with their expanding digital universe. It can be an hour-long exercise in futility to convert files to the correct format and transfer them to your Sony PSP or your phone With digital media such as video from a friends cell phone or your own iTunes playlists, its a jungle out there. Today's launch, however, is a much different product.ĭoubleTwist states its mission is to "enable consumers to enjoy their digital media on the widest possible range of devices." To that end, DoubleTwist has introduced a free product called doubleTwist desktop which allows users to sync and share media between different devices, handling the necessary format conversions transparently. The early reports about DoubleTwist suggested that DVD Jon had reverse engineered Apple's FairPlay copy protection and planned on licensing it to other companies. Since then, he has made headlines with the release of QTFairUse which decoded Apple's FairPlay digital rights system for iTunes. DVD Jon originally gained notoriety (and his nickname) for his involvement in releasing the DeCSS software that allowed the bypassing of DVD copy protection. Jon Lech Johansen ("DVD Jon") launched DoubleTwist today, a venture that was originally reported back in October 2006.
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