Setting iTunes to segue tracks works quite well on playback but when I try and get the segue to work on the iPod it doesn’t work at all.

I did a google on this feature. And there are many opionions on why it won’t work, varying from the processor in the iPod not being able to process two music streams at once to heaven knows what other excuses. There are also a few people who swear blind it works ok.

I’ve just remembered that in fact I have had this feature working fine on the iPod before as well. It was probably at least 6 months ago but I can distinctly remember playing segued tracks on the iPod through my car stereo, via an iTrip FM transmitter.

What has happened in the last 6 months to make it no longer work? I’m pretty sure I have recently updated the iPod with a new version of its software, currently version 1.2.1.

I reckon that is the culprit and all of the other ‘valid’ reasons why the iPod can’t possibly play two tracks at once, as in when segueing tracks, is just a lot of confusing chaff. Wonder if there is a defect number for this on the Apple web site. Fat chance.

Quote of the day

‘Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts’ Jim Morrison (1943-1971)

I can’t believe how long Skype has been giving away their VOIP for free.

Its great for everybody. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world get to make calls for diddley-squat, both national and international. Got a feeling as soon as there are lots of people dependent on it that that will change. Either a monthly charge, though that might be hard for them to collect on or versions of the Skype client that will work for a year for $30. Not too much for most people knowing that they won’t have a landline bill due of a couple of times that figure each quarter.

And all of a sudden eBay, who own Skype, suddenly generate revenues of $30 times 200m, and thats $6 followed by a shed full of zeroes. How much did eBay pay for Skype? Whatever it was it kinda makes sense.

Quote of the day

‘I have a theory that the truth is never told in the nine-to-five hours’ Hunter S. Thompson (1939-2005)

How come you never get virus’s on Usenet or Bittorrent?

Never used to get them on WinMX either. I reckon it’s because the hackers that write that stuff (sometimes known as security specialists) don’t want to shoot themselves in the foot as that’s where they get their music and movies from. I assume this is a geek thing as using Bittorrent isn’t that straight forward and hell, have you ever tried to explain using Usenet newgroups with Agent? Whereas the simpler Limewire and Kazaa are fair game I guess.  

A while back I was working at a site testing an eCommerce system and I got someone to see what would happen when some of the database servers stopped. This was to check that the ecommerce system crashed gracefully (is there such a thing?) and that the relevant log files were updated etc. Anyway the poor guy had to contact the DBA responsible for these test servers to request that they were switched off, as in pull the power whilst running. So he emailed the DBA. A while later this guy pitches up and accuses the tester of embarrassing him as he didn’t know where the servers were. Huh.

Turns out the guy barely knew what a server was. He’d been made a DBA purely as a career move and to raise his salary.

That sort of stunt has Human Resources written all over it. Euuuuchhh.

Quote of the day

‘Art is either plagiarism or revolution’ Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)