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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
If you are familiar with Itunes, there is a library in which you store the IDs of any media you collect exept text based. Most media computer dependant accessory you buy has software that helps catalog your content for easier reference. I was hoping that the Connect store software would be complemented in such a way.
Also in Itunes, any music you have in whatever format or sampling rate is automatically reconverted to fit in your Ipod as soon as you download to It.
If such software was offered for the PRS-500 or the Iliad for that matter, the use of such a tool would be greatly simplified.  |
Hmm. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with iTunes, hence my guessing at what you were asking.
I'm not much of a music person, I'm afraid, I
like music just fine, I just don't seek it out nearly enough to justify an iPod level expense for myself, is all. I don't think they let me use iTunes to put music on my Palm.
Reading, now, that's a totally different price point.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find/figure out too much detail how the Connect software that you install on your PC works. We may have to wait and see on it. The few details I've scraped up
could suggest that it does something like what you're looking for.
We know that the access to the Connect Store is through the Connect Software. We know that they store a record of what you've bought somewhere, I
assume on their servers rather than my PC. We know that their aim in creating the connect store is to gather content for the PRS500 and make it easily available to the non-geek market (like my 62 year old mother, who thinks this is all simply a
grand idea, but has only recently "gotten" what a flash drive is).
You can see that those tidbits
might add up to what you're looking for, but they might not too. (shrug)
@ exvaxman: yeah, that article does suggest some serious past issues with the Connect store, but it also seems to suggest that they are mostly dealt with. Certainly the web side of the Connect store is up for music, even if I
do have to use IE (mutter) to see it. The Connect Software for the PRS500 is supposed to be a self contained conduit to the book side of the Connect store, not going through a browser at all, so who knows what difference that might make? I haven't been able to find anything
other than that article to suggest that the Connect store is ... disconnected. I'm also wondering if that Kinoma business would necessarily have any effect on e-books -- doesn't it deal with multimedia?
While I see your concern, I've decided to wait and see on that one. Probably our only real option anyway.
