So I reckon the Nx1 ROM has a vicious bug that's causing me a LOT of grief. Now I've got a lot connected to my Mac via USB and usually if a USB mass storage driver fails, or a USB device goes haywire, *everything* gets affected on OS X. The problem is definitely either in the Nx1 ROM (kernel, USB mass storage kext / module (I guess it's a module, being Linux.)) or in the Mac USB mass storage driver. 20 times, until I gave up, removed the card from the phone, and got all medieval with the filesystem via the Terminal and a spare USB SD card adaptor. Now the crashing issue isn't anything to do with doubleTwist - I've mounted the SD card in the Nx1 manually on the desktop and tried to empty trash, and the Nx1 has crashed hard. with the Nexus One crashing HARD every time I try to copy files onto the device via the USB connection, it's fundamentally unusable. All Apple devices are labelled 'read-only' (I guess Apple let DVD Jon and Amazon market this app as long as it didn't directly compete with iTunes for Apple devices, again fairy nuff) but you can pull the tunes off them, by the looks of things.īUT. The app looks nice, and it also recognises my iPhone mk1, my iPhone 3GS, my iPad (should I say mk1 at this point? ), and my Nexus One. Fairy nuff on that point - nothing is forcing me to buy Amazon media through doubleTwist. They've got Amazon in on the act, using the app as a portal for Amazon to sell music, books and video, which is a good idea but I'd like to be able to turn it OFF as it's not my primary (actually it's not even *any*) use of the app. It's a lot to ask, and doubleTwist appear to be trying hard to deliver. And then sync when I change the playlist in the future. This is what I want - something to take my playlist for the Nx1, sort through the media formats, convert any Apple Lossless (which the Nx1 can't play) to AAC or MP3 (which it can), etc. This was *not* funny, especially when both my cats are in the vets recovering from their neutering operations and I'm anxious as HELL.Īnyway doubleTwist looks OK, though very beta and loads of obvious UI functionality is missing (expectations of a Mac user, I guess) - but with DVD Jon I expect most of the code is there to convert from one media format to another, and to do it very quickly and efficiently. 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. 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.
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