Filed under: Audio, iTS, Internet Tools, iTunes
Create your own iTunes signature
The Digital Music Weblog is pointing to the iTunes Signature Maker this afternoon. It's kind of an odd thing that takes brief snippets of your favorite iTunes tracks (based on your ratings) and mashes them together into a single file. The result is your digital audio "signature." Dr. Jason Freeman is the author of the iTunes signature, and you can read an abstract of his project here.
I tried it out, and the result makes me feel like I'm full of hallucinatory drugs (you can see a list of some of the songs included above). It's kind of a neat idea, though, and I can see how trying to identify the represented songs could be fun. It also might be cool as a dynamic ring tone generator for the ROKR, based on whatever music you currently have on board.
[Via The Digital Music Weblog]
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Nathaniel said 6:42PM on 12-06-2005
Wait, you're encouraging people to go to some random website and grant local security permissions to some unknown program?
I'm not doubting that this is a legitimate site with a legitimate tool that does something cool. What I do doubt is that this is something we should be encouraging web users to do -- we know what kind of security nightmare the Windows platform has turned into, do we really need to encourage Mac users to accept as normal the idea of running untrusted code from a web site because it promises to entertain us for a few moments?
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Similar said 7:05PM on 12-06-2005
I agree. I almost typed in my password, and then thought better of it. Not worth it at all.
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djones said 11:44PM on 12-06-2005
When did it ask you for your password? Accepting a certificate != giving admin access to your machine.
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Kai Cherry said 2:15AM on 12-07-2005
Similar...welcome to the definition of FUD.
Good Lord.
Lets see...why would I trust this app...
Its digitally signed by a reputable CA (who's cert is included with the OS...) and the author's identity is known and proven.
It runs in a sandbox.
It doesn't need to authenticate; if you knew what your computer was *actually doing* then you'd be able to make an informed, and educated descision. The system is asking if it can read your keychain, to verify the certificate signer, and and the signed cert to your own...all the while abstracting the signed applet from this sensitive info...its no different than when safari, or ichat or anything else that uses Keychain services asks if it can do this.
Ugh,
I'm all for lookin' out, but the way crap gets started, and spread, is by a couple of mo's sphinctering out unsubstantiated drivel.
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Kai Cherry said 2:26AM on 12-07-2005
...or "ron's" if you don't like/misinterpret "mo's".
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Jona said 4:12AM on 12-07-2005
I'm so into this. It sounds really beautiful to me. I just Bluetooth'd it to my phone and made it my ringtone. AWESOME SUGGESTION! TUAW forever!
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Similar said 9:51PM on 12-07-2005
Kai,
Well..good thing I checked back here just by chance just to see what was said.
O.K., so, I do know what a Certificate is compared to Authenticating. However, in this instance, when I clicked on the link an authentication dialog box popped up out of nowhere. I admit it was my fault for assuming that it must be the iTSM that wanted authentication. After trying the iTSM again, it worked fine, and as expected.
It would have been much appreciated if you hadn't got up on your self-righteous high horse.
You could have simply said "Hunh, weird, I didn't get any kind of Authentication dialog when I tried to run the iTSM, maybe something else is going on with your machine".
I would have come back and retried the iTSM knowing that it must have been my error... but... Thanks.
Oh and I also wanted to thank you for the elitist and juvenile "ron's" comment. Nice to know where you're coming from. It would be almost as bad if I was to deride you for the comically ironic words "educated descision" in your response.
So, anyways, I thought I'd give you some substance for your unsubstantiated drivel.
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Frank said 6:26PM on 12-13-2005
I've been using a similar app called WishMix. A little different though because it's more of a music sharing and shopping tool.
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