I don’t use my iPhone as a music player – 16G is not big enough for a simple sync and thus I continue carrying both the iPod and the iPhone around. But what to do with 16G? I needed some sort of music to play. Wouldn’t it be cool to play tracks from the HVSC on the iPhone?
This is where I stumble into the culture clash. I’m a fan of Free Software, and I’m used to the idea of downloading software for free. I work on software for free, and I expect to use software for free. At least whenever it doesn’t come preinstalled on a new machine. 😄
The SID Player for the iPhone costs CHF 3.30. 🙁
I just can’t bring myself to pay for software, no matter how small the amount.
Even stranger: The software is GPL and source code is “available on request”. But the website ¹ doesn’t list a mail address. You can find contact information on the author’s blog. ² Mail sent.
Another thing I don’t like: I would have to download the tracks from the net whenever I wanted to play them; downloading doesn’t help. I think what I really need is a SID plugin for the player on the iPhone.
I then started up Xcode, and realized that I was working on a Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) but that the iPhone OS 2.2 requires the latest Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard). I think I see where this is going...
Perhaps I should just convert the SID collection into an MP3 collection (wasting enormous disk space). But at least I would have a local copy that plays on the phone...
#Gadgets #iPhone #C64 #SID
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And you’ll need to be on the “iPhone Developer Program” from Apple if you want to upload compiled stuff on your phone without having hacked it. It costs US$ 99 to be part of that program...
– 2ni 2009-01-19 10:47 UTC
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I suspect it’s only a matter of time before Rockbox comes out for the iPhone. Problem solved!
– greywulf 2009-01-19 11:09 UTC
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All this does is remind me how perhaps the time has finally come to replace Mac OS 10.3 with Ubuntu on my iBook laptop. 😄
Maybe a project for my summer holidays, haha.
– Alex Schroeder 2009-01-19 11:53 UTC
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Hm... OpenBSD/macppc... Ubuntu 8.10.
– Alex Schroeder 2009-01-21 10:35 UTC