07-10-2004, 04:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Pocketster Pro Lets You Share Your iPod's Tunes
"If you've come to this page, you probably already know what Pocketster does. Just as a refresher, Pocketster is an application that allows your Pocket PC to be discovered by other Pocket PCs in the area or by any PC running a Zeroconf (a.k.a Rendezvous) discovery stack. You can also discover other Pocketster users anywhere on your wireless LAN. Pocketster includes a web server (that you can use to publish information) and a music preview utility that allows you to stream music files from nearby Pocketster users. More details and screenshots can be found at http://www.pocketster.com/. Pocketster Pro (the advanced version of Pocketster) takes the idea a step further and adds an iPod Module. The module enables you to publish your iPod playlists and have anyone in the area listen to previews or download tracks wirelessly from those playlists."
OK, that's pretty darn cool -- the idea is to use a USB host-enabled Pocket PC to access and share the files on the iPod. It's not going to be very practical, battery-life wise... but W?BIC! 
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07-10-2004, 04:24 PM
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Intellectual
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Will this allow, then for HUGE storage medium for the PPC????
i mean, if you can stream, then i assume you can access the files as well, and thebn you have, what, up to 40GB!!! 8O
..............or am I missing something :?:
Ryan
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07-10-2004, 04:28 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Yes, that is correct, you can use the iPod as storage (all 40GB of it in my case  )
Cheers,
Razvan
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Razvan Dragomirescu
Chief Technology Officer
SIMEDA GmbH
www.simeda.com
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07-10-2004, 04:57 PM
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Mystic
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With this type of USB Hosting capability, how long can it be until we can plug in a 300 GB USB HDD into a Pocket PC? :mrgreen:
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07-10-2004, 06:54 PM
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Philosopher
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What do you mean not very practical in terms of battery life? USB port doesn't take *that* much extra power, and the iPod has it's own battery that powers the HD.
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07-10-2004, 07:20 PM
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Pupil
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by sponge
What do you mean not very practical in terms of battery life? USB port doesn't take *that* much extra power, and the iPod has it's own battery that powers the HD.
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"The module enables you to publish your iPod playlists and have anyone in the area listen to previews or download tracks wirelessly from those playlists." [Emphasis added.]
Surely you can agree that sharing wirelessly will affect battery-life.
-Mike
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07-10-2004, 07:43 PM
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Theorist
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And the sharing of these files is somehow legal because it's a close up network and not p2p? I doubt it.
-arebelspy
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07-10-2004, 07:47 PM
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Mystic
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Originally Posted by arebelspy
And the sharing of these files is somehow legal because it's a close up network and not p2p? I doubt it.
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Yeah...really doubt it's legal. :|
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07-10-2004, 08:06 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by sponge
What do you mean not very practical in terms of battery life? USB port doesn't take *that* much extra power, and the iPod has it's own battery that powers the HD.
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I mean that the iPod's battery drains very fast when used as a standard hard drive. The iPod uses heavy caching to give you its rated life.
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Originally Posted by arebelspy
And the sharing of these files is somehow legal because it's a close up network and not p2p? I doubt it.
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You're making an assumption of what it'll be used for. For, say, household listening, I don't see how the legality is in question. As it stands, you can use a desktop or just the iPAQ to share files in the same fashion, so why not question its legality?
--janak
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07-10-2004, 08:30 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jun 2004
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pardon my ignorance...
you mention usb hosting, how do i make this possible with my PPC? are all PPC's capable of this, or are their only certain models? excuse my ignorance, i'm so excited at this possibilty. thanks for your help.
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