Restore the iPhone from the backup (you should get prompted for this during the sync, after it is erased. This will back up all of the data from apps (gamesaves, etc.) Plug in the iPhone into the new computer, but don't sync it just yet. Import the media into iTunes on the new computer If you just want to grab all the media off your phone, you could use senuTi (iTunes backwards.) Once you have the media backed up, you could do the following: You could sometimes get a one time exception, but it wasn't guaranteed. It used to be that if you lost all your purchases, you s*it out of luck. This is quite a difference from just a few years ago before iTunes allowed you to re-download purchases. However, That being said, the following are still true:Īnything you purchased from iTunes (Music, Movies, Apps, Books, etc.) can be re-downloaded at no cost.Īnything you purchased from other stores should be able to be re-downloaded at no cost.Īny MP3s that you ripped yourself will have to be re-ripped again, but still at no cost. Not having a backup of said computer is even worse. So if you wonder why, for example, Apple can't do what Spotify or Google Play does, it's because the record industry doesn't want Apple to be able to do those things, or at least not at the same cost. (Previously, all iTunes albums were $9.99, and all tracks were $0.99.) IIRC, the president of Sony Records said that if he could eliminate the influence of the iTunes Store, he would - or something along those lines. For instance, they helped Amazon become a major alternative to the iTunes Store, in order to get concessions out of Apple, like the ability to price albums more flexibly. They actually like to play different vendors against each other. The recording industry is not interested in making digital transactions uniform. Apple also pushed for the removal of DRM. Back then, the studios would have preferred that each purchase was equivalent to the possession of exactly one file. For instance, the ability to play iTunes Store purchases on five authorized computers (it's now ten computers, I believe) was undoubtedly more than the record industry wanted. That's why iTunes prevents you from doing extremely convenient things, that would be equivalent to endlessly proliferating your digital music.Īpple has actually been a rather aggressive advocate on behalf of consumers. Record studios were worried that purchased digital files would simply proliferate endlessly. The iTunes Store was a legal alternative to Napster. ReadHttpFile ("data/riversArray.A lot of the weird and annoying aspects of the way iTunes handles music derive from the paranoia of the recording industry back when the iTunes Store was getting started. Then I go to (as of this writing) line 706 of the index.html file and change the following line To show the raw code, I change file in the data folder (although you'll have to do that in a copy in a different folder, otherwise the app will just rewrite over it if you add a new OPML file to the lists folder).
For example, if I go to Dropbox/river4/rivers and make daveWiner.js shareable, I get. I then had to make the JSON files shareable.
bashrc, put a # in front of my original s3path, and add the following line:Īfter source ~/.bashrc I stopped and restarted river.js, and the app started to write files to the Dropbox folder. Because I have Dropbox installed on my Linux VPS, river.js can read/write to/from that subdirectory. I created a river4 subdirectory in Dropbox, put a lists folder in it, and added my OPML files. One can't view the index.html file of the river on the web (even when made shareable) but one can make all of the JSON files shareable, and plug them in where they are referenced. For instance, I am running River4 on a VPS that does not have a fixed IP address. The initial problem with running River4 locally is that one would need to use the web server as a host, and not all web servers have that capability. Although Dave Winer has said that the "river of news" is not a feed reader, they feel equivalent enough that I don't want to be paying $20 a month just to create JSON files and host a river, when competitive feed readers are much less expensive. This is big news - the cost of bandwidth and all of the reading/writing from the node.js installation to Amazon is not cheap. The latest release of River4 allows a user to bypass Amazon S3 and instead write all data to the local machine. Running River4 On the Cheap: Locally and with Dropbox
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