Filed under: Tips and tricks, Freeware, iTunes
Turn your Walkman phone into an iTunes phone
So the iTunes Motorola ROKR phone doohickey isn't aimed at my demographic. Boo hoo. Besides, I grew up in the age of the Walkman. I think we all (over here in MacLand) agree Sony dropped the ball something fierce with their attempts to revive the Walkman brand though, right? Do you call them WalkCasts? And I can't be the only one to find humor in the fact that ATRAC rhymes with another audio tech failure...But for those of you who couldn't keep your mitts off Sony's Walkman series phones (and I'll admit they're kinda cool), but still use iTunes, here's some good news. It's only been tested on the W800 (Engadget review here), but iTuneMyWalkman is a little script that'll put selected AAC and MP3 files on your Sony phone, lickety-split. Obviously it won't work with iTMS purchased songs, or Apple Lossless, or AIFF, but why split hairs?
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Jack said 10:29PM on 9-20-2005
I'm going to just velcro an iPod nano to my cellphone and call it a day.
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Ed Kapuscinski said 11:00PM on 9-20-2005
Thats a great point, but here's another one, there's a program called jhymn that will strip out the "features" that won't let you play the file on your phone.
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Wheels said 11:17PM on 9-20-2005
Do ATRAC files stop in the middle to switch tracks?
God, 8 track tapes - more proof of the whacky drugs people were doing back in the 70s. If we were doing those kind of drugs now, we all would want digital cameras and MP3 players in our cell phones.
Oh wait...
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Carniphage said 5:14AM on 9-21-2005
The K750i and the W800i are essentially the same phone. It is an astonishing phone, much better than the Motorola effort. It has the fastest Java execution of almost any handheld device. 2MP camera. 3D engine.
Lots of software available including Opera Mini - and Instant messaging clients.
Carni
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Cyberwhore said 7:17AM on 9-21-2005
I always wished that SE had of teamed up with Apple for the iTunes phone instead of Motorola. There was probably no chance of that ever happening but you can dream.
SE will have my money for one of these soon but I wonder if Apple will break this hack with a future update of iTunes?
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phi said 9:21AM on 9-21-2005
there are 2 other solutions for the mac:
SyncTunes (freeware) http://www.nesfield.co.uk/synctunes/
Dreamsicle (shareware) http://kaisakura.com/dreamsicle.html
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Po0py said 6:10AM on 9-22-2005
I'm currently giving this a whirl with my k750i + 512mb card. Seems to be working but I advise you to clean your card of any mp3's for your first attempt as it doesn't seem to like mp3's that haven't got there by anything other than iTuneMyWalkman. But since this seems to be working just fine I see no reason to import mp3s using any other method.
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