| Tuesday, March 4, 2003 |
01:08 - A journey of discovery
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This is pretty neat: in Safari, if you right-click on a link to an MP3 file, you get an "Open in iTunes" menu option.
Selecting it streams the MP3 file straight into iTunes. (If only I had the bandwidth to keep up with it. Ah well-- in the new house for sure.) And it changes to whatever app you've set as the default for MP3 files, too.
Sort of a side benefit of the ugliness of filename extensions, I must admit; it's an accessible, flat piece of meta-data that's available to any parser without need for the underlying application to support any kind of "deep discovery" (such as the Content-type associated by the server with various file types, which normally you don't see until you actually request the file-- whereas with file-typing done in the extension, it's readily available just by looking at the link URL). It's still an ugly solution, but I've gotta admit it's versatile.
Anyway, the MP3s in question, pictured above, are from the Belmont Playboys' home site-- that's Mike Hendrix' band. And boy, can they wail. Right-wing bloggers certainly are a multi-talented bunch, aren't they?
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