Before streaming, we listened to music on our Macs from CDs and low-quality MP3s found in shady corners of the Internet. This episode, Ed and Brian tell the Audion story, declare themselves children of the filesystem generation, and struggle to pronounce the word "earbuds".
Links for this episode:
- followup
- Apple ID password reset
- Connected 1 on the history of the iPod
- aborted home folder on iPod feature
- pre-iPod music players
- Mac music software
- MacAMP (aka Macast)
- Winamp – "It really whips the llama's ass!"
- MP3.com
- Audion
- available on the Panic software archive
- the true story of audion.
- faces [WayBack Machine]
- Smoothface
- Brian's favorite: some_bhodinut_preset
- Ed's favorite: Reintegration
- five flavors "Yum!" iMacs
- MacAMP (aka Macast)
- Ed's ~/Music Hazel rules
- Macworld review of Audion 2.5
- Roxio Toast
- iPod storage hierarchy
- SoundJam MP by Casady & Greene
- Music Player.app
- "Rip. Mix. Burn." promo
- the iPod era
- our first iPods: 3rd generation
- Brian's favorite: 1st generation Shuffle
- Ed's favorite: 2nd generation Nano
