Art La Flamme

Attention, superheroes.

I think I am found the culprit.

Try this (the regular RSS feed) or this RSS feed (is all else fails), and see if it works better.

The first one is the better one to use.

So, what happened?
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I’m looking for some brain power help on this one.

I’ve added a number of video files to my iTunes collection, mainly through this little trick of importing YouTube videos in Quicktime format via RSS.

Some of the videos, though, are ones that I have downloaded (via Firefox) and converted with iSquint.

iTunes recognizes them. They play just fine in iTunes.

After getting them into iTunes, I got into their properties (Get Information) and change the video from Movie to Music Video.

These files then filter through my integrated Smart Playlists just fine, and show up in my playlists just fine.

Only, they get skipped. The audio files play, but the video ones always get skipped.

There’s a related observation that I’ve had. It does this with podcast files – even audio. My first thought was that it was because I was pulling this music video files in via RSS in the podcast part of iTunes, but even the ones that I am manually load into iTunes get skipped.

And this does not happen with non-smart playlists. I can manually make a playlist that mixes audio and video files, and the video files play just fine. It’s the smart playlists that seems to gag on the video files.

Anyone know why? I’m searching the whole worldwide web for an answer, and not finding much.

I haven’t coughed up a summary of cool things from around the web for some time. I suppose it’s because I’m all about the RSS feed concept, and the fact that I have a couple of them.

There’s this one, just for the stuff that I post to this site.

There’s this one, which is all of the stuff that I bookmark and share and annotate as I read 100+ RSS feeds in Google Reader. Pretty much, I have stopped surfing the web, and instead I use Google Reader and these RSS feeds to bring the web to me. As I find cool things, I mark them, and they show up in this RSS feed. Want to see what I think is noteworthy, on a daily basis? Yeah, get this RSS feed.

And then there’s my Friendfeed. It picks up a few other odds and ends, like the Twitter stuff I am playing with, the rare comment I make on YouTube, etc.

So, really, if you’re hip and cool and use either of the latter two, you’re aleady seeing the cool things that I’m stumbling across around the web (granted, I’m no Andy Baio, but still.)

But, that being said, here’s some of the good stuff. Read carefully — you might even get your own shout-out!

Here’s a video worth your time. Poor, poor Mini.

If I end up with a new Mac, it’s going to get X-Box Media Center loaded on it. No if, ands, or buts. Oh, and I can run it from a thumb drive? Even better — cookies and porn, my favorite!

Paul, Poppa Bear, Scott, etc: Can we mount these to the tow hook on the front of the Mini? Someone buy one, figure it out, and send me the solution.

Orwell, Jay, Doug — the almost-geo capabilities of the iPhone amaze me, and should impress you, too. It’s one of the reasons I’m looking at getting an Eye-Fi Explore (that, and so I can upload easily to Panoramio — it’s too much of a pain in the ass right now to manually geo-code crap). Oh, and speaking of iPhones — you did read this one, right?

I love this piece on terrorism and photography. It’s a sound argument. Kind of mocks TSA and DHS a bit, don’t ya think. It struck a chord with me, having just finished Little Brother.

Bets, there’s a new version of the video camera out. Don’t worry — while it’s smaller, the early reviews all seem to indicate that is fares worse in worse light conditions, if that makes any sense.

So, follow a feed, and keep up with what’s hip and happening in my little world. While on the road, I’ll probably blog less, but I doubt my RSS reading will suffer much.