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[Casey]

Source code was rumored to be released yesterday, right?

The source code was released last Monday. People are already building ROMs. Cyanogen said there'll be a stable CM9 ROM in about 2 months. Probably be beta versions within a month and nightlies within a couple of weeks. But that's CyanogenMod.

I would estimate there will be bare-bones AOSP ROMs with everything working for a few devices within 4-5 days.

There will not be an official CyanogenMod ROM for the OG Droid. It didn't make the cut hardware wise. Other devs are looking into building an ICS ROM for it though. ETA's on that, fuck knows.

 

[dilla]

Well, looks like I'll have quite a bit of a wait then. That's ok.

 

[dilla]

Any way to get Spotify on my phone or is it solely a premium feature?

Also, there's a song I like on Spotify but can't find it on YouTube to download. Any way to download it from Spotify using a program or something?

 

[Casey]

Any way to get Spotify on my phone or is it solely a premium feature?

Also, there's a song I like on Spotify but can't find it on YouTube to download. Any way to download it from Spotify using a program or something?

Premium only. Mobile usage is one of the main reasons I pay for it. And no... no downloads on Spotify. Just google the name of the song + mediafire and you can usually find it though.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Any way to get Spotify on my phone or is it solely a premium feature?

Also, there's a song I like on Spotify but can't find it on YouTube to download. Any way to download it from Spotify using a program or something?

there are softwares that replicate the cassette tape in the radio + press record button function.

 

[dilla]

Luckily, i ended up finding it when I realized I was listening to a remix, not the original, and was getting thrown off by the originals on YouTube. It would have been the first time I didn't find a song from Spotify on YouTube. Crisis averted.

I'd think about buying it if I had data on my phone. But even data over here is strictly EDGE, no 3G. Not sure when they plan on moving to the 21st Century here.

 

[ARon]

I don't understand how people rip tracks from youtube and act like its fine to listen to, the quality is so bad

 

[Pittsey]

I don't understand how people rip tracks from youtube and act like its fine to listen to, the quality is so bad

I find it hard enough listening to anything less than flac.

 

[dilla]

Because not everyone is so anal about music sound quality and file types and shit. Usually they listen to music while doing other things that occupy the mind, like driving, studying, or working out. Gone are the days of laying on your bed, putting headphones on on wasting hours on end wondering what it would be like to roll with Tupac when he was still alive.

TL;DR: People got other shit to do.

 

[S O F I]

I don't understand how people rip tracks from youtube and act like its fine to listen to, the quality is so bad

..but there's like 1080p quality. that doesn't go for just video, right?

also, half the mixtapes artists put out nowadays don't even seem mastered right. they don't bump right in the car. there's a clear difference between a DJ Khaled record audio quality and ASAP Rocky's mixtape.

 

[dilla]

To add to my earlier post, why do sites like What.cd have such shit users? How do people maintain their ratios when there's 50 people seeding and none leeching? At least they should have a time minimum if you can't meet your upload minimum. Seed for 100 hours and you don't get penalized, whether someone downloads or not.

What also goes along with those sites is 15 different versions of the same album in different formats. People worry about the most trivial shit. Have three formats, one that sounds amazing and is large sized, one medium sounding one, and one low quality one. Done. How does one album with 10 songs come out to be a 1GB download because it's high quality? And why?

 

[masta247]

Youtube at 1080p has very strong compression (I hope they do something about it, I never go full screen because of this).
For audio it's AAC of 64-152kbps. It's still less than an average listener would like.

When I listen to the music at home or on my headphones outdoors I enjoy having a minimum of ~192kbps mp3 - it's okay for me. It's 96kbps or lower that becomes hard to listen for me though.
But I still don't understand how some people can go for 64kbps and be satisfied but then again those are usually people who still use headphones that came with their phones/mp3 players. They just don't give a shit until they can hear the melody.

I'm not so audio nazi that needs lossless compression, but I can tell a slight difference. Of course I'd rather get a 320kbps file despite the bigger size but more than that - usually the file size is not worth it for me. Well, unless it's FLAC, but my phone has trouble playing that and I regret used space too. 300-400mb for a single CD as compared to 150-200mb for a 320kbps MP3 makes a huge difference for a mobile device.

So my preferences are - 192-320kbps MP3/AAC (eh, a good VBR ~150kbps would do too I guess) for mobile players and 192kbps-FLAC (but the more the better) for listening at home.

 

[S O F I]

what's iTunes quality again?

 

[dilla]

I still use my iPod headphones. Again, sound quality is not a priority, so long as it doesn't sound like a mouse farting into a garbage can in an empty hallway.

 

[masta247]

what's iTunes quality again?

I think they introduced something like Itunes Plus that brought the quality to 256kbps?
http://www.businessweek.com/technol...nd_quality_of_itunes_plus_amazing_enough.html

Other than that I think most songs are 128kbps AAC, which is pretty much equal to a 160kbps CBR mp3.

 

[Flipmo]

Tegra 3 tablets to drop below $299 by mid-2012?​

By Daniel Bader on November 20, 2011 at 9:34am in Mobile News​

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If you think about the trajectory of most consumer electronics, the general goal is for prices to trend downwards as they are replaced by the latest and greatest. Take a look at the Tegra 2 crop of Android Honeycomb tablets, many of which started at $499 or higher — some of them are now half that price.​

But it’s still remarkable to think that an upcoming product, for example the Asus Transformer Prime, will hit the coveted $299 mark only two quarters after its release. However that is exactly what is going to happen according to NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. He chatted with a few tech journalists last week and told them that in spite of the Tegra 3 chipset’s 3x speed increase over its predecessor, it is being produced in high enough volume that there shouldn’t be an issue with prices coming down soon after launch.​

If 2011 was the year of the Honeycomb tablet, 2012 should be the year of the good Ice Cream Sandwich tablet. To say that many users were underwhelmed by the Android tablet experience would be an understatement. And while that experience has dramatically improved as Honeycomb has iterated from 3.0 to 3.2, it cannot yet compete with iOS for market share. Here’s hoping the Transformer Prime and its ilk can help change that trend.​

 

[masta247]

I doubt that the Transformer Prime will go down to 299 but there might be other Tegra 3 tablets going down to 299$. The price of Prime's display, body, memory and costs of developing a Tegra 3 tablet first are probably too high but it might realistically go down to about 400$.

If it went for 299 I'd be first in line to get it.

 

[dilla]

I doubt that the Transformer Prime will go down to 299 but there might be other Tegra 3 tablets going down to 299$. The price of Prime's display, body, memory and costs of developing a Tegra 3 tablet first are probably too high but it might realistically go down to about 400$.

If it went for 299 I'd be first in line to get it.

Anything can happen after the whole TouchPad debacle. Granted, no one is going out of business, but price cuts can be made to sell these things like hotcakes.

 

[ARon]

I hope nice tablets go that cheap lol.

Hows your touchpad doing coon

 

[dilla]

I hope nice tablets go that cheap lol.

Hows your touchpad doing coon

I don't have it with me, it's back with my parents and sister. I'm pretty sure my sister uses it all the time, even if it is just to play Angry Birds, which she can do on her iPod Touch, or browse Facebook which she can also do on her iPod.

I think when I go home, I'll educate her on downloading and transferring media (namely movies) so that she can stock up on those and use the wider screen of the tablet to enjoy them, as opposed to viewing them on her iPod.

Things can change, though. I don't really need a tablet here, but if it's gathering dust at home, I may just bring it back with me and install Android on it. But I'm not installing Gingerbread, like the latest CM Alphas are. I'd much rather have Honeycomb. Any version of Honeycomb over GB.