Squirt files between iPods with miShare
If the Zune ever had a killer feature, it was its ability to squirt an audio file from one Zune to another effortlessly. Unfortunately, it was a killer feature utterly squandered by the addition of DRM. Enter miShare, a less elegant $99 solution for iPods, allowing you to easily squirt a song from one iPod to another.
The miShare is a dongle with two dock connectors: you simply select the iPods to the donor and receiver ports, select the song you want to transfer on the donor iPod, push a button and it squirts onto the other iPod. Even neater: you can exchange DRM-encrypted files, which will simply sit on your iPod's disk area, unlockable with your iTunes password when you hook your iPod up to your computer.
The big Achilles heel here is transfer speed: miShare can transfern songs at about 500kb/s, which is slow enough to make transferring the entire contents of a 160GB iPod collection completely impractical. However, it is fast enough to transfer a few tracks in a minute, which seems like a good compromise between the conscionable and convenient.
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If you have to buy something like this, you really should perhaps consider the possibility that there's something wrong either the way you buy/handle music, or the there is something severely lacking in how your mp3 player performs.
If you have to buy something like this, you really should perhaps consider the possibility that there's something wrong either the way you buy/handle music, or the there is something severely lacking in how your mp3 player performs.
Rockbox FTW?
Apple should at least think about including wireless transfer capabilities in some sort of firmware update soon for the iPod Touch. It'd be really nice to at least be able to stream something from a buddy's iPod, or to pass non-DRM tracks over.
The chances of the big four letting apple do that are about zero.
Remember these people believe that DRM is a good thing for their business model. They also understand that if you buy a cd you are legally allowed to put it on your iPod and that these files will have no DRM. So by allowing people to transfer non-DRM files they know people can transfer there cds to each other.
The fact that you can obtain any music track they sell on pretty much any p2p network without any DRM and probably in a higher quality file, with ease is something that still seems to not register with them.
I just received mine. it's incredible. I don't know why this technology is just now hitting the market.