Apple Music 404 Not Found (music.apple.com)

robot_jesus 1 day ago

• oniony 1 day ago

  It's a Breakout clone. I mean that's what they're generally called in case you did not already know this.

  • replygirl 1 day ago

    it was called brick on the ipod.

    woz and jobs did work on breakout at atari

    • mortenjorck 1 day ago

      A piece of lore I never knew.

      Digging into it just now, an important distinction I initially missed is that they worked on the original arcade cabinet (all game logic implemented directly in hardware), which predated the 2600 and its software version by several years (by which time they had already founded Apple).

      • CSSer 3 hours ago

        Nolan Bushnell (Atari co-founder) famously declined to invest in Apple early on too.

    • soperj 1 day ago

      lol. Woz did work on Breakout for Atari (Atari didn't know this). Jobs got most of the money (Woz didn't know this).

      It's literally one of the "big prick" items of Job's history, along with disowning his own child.

      • monocasa 1 day ago

        I saw an interview where someone asked woz about getting screwed out of a lot of the Atari money It was apparently new information to Woz, and he simply deflated a little, and muttered "not again, Steve..."

        It was heartbreaking.

        • yreg 1 day ago

          I think you are dramatizing it a bit. Woz says he found out about it from Walter Isaacson's book.

          https://youtube.com/shorts/MpuPbQ8TY-I

          • nier 16 hours ago

            That’s not what he said in the video. He said he found out 12 years later in a book. So sometime in the mid-1980s. That book is "Zap! The Rise and Fall of Atari" by Scott Cohen. The quote is "Jobs earned himself a five-thousand-dollar bonus." on page 55.

            Source: https://archive.org/details/zaprisefall00cohe

      • KingOfCoders 1 day ago

        Not another Steve good, Woz bad myth.

        With Woz at the helm, Apple would have gone the way of Commodore and Atari, it's a good thing he got out.

        • Brian_K_White 1 day ago

          So what? The world got more benefit from c64s and vic20s than all the iProducts together.

          An Apple that made little more than the AppleII and ran it's course would have been a perfectly fine thing.

          We would all be far richer for having 20 different companies in place of the Apple we got.

          • KingOfCoders 1 day ago

            "The world got more benefit from c64s and vic20s"

            I started coding in 1981 on an VC20, learned a lot from it, but wonder how did the world benefit more from vic20s?

            As a happy smartphone user, I think the world did benefit a lot e.g. from the Newton (loved mine, dropped a Palm for it, sad it died, but it was too heavy).

            • ezekiel68 13 hours ago

              The world got more benefit because it was kids like us who learned on these Commodore machines who rose in ranks in the tech world in the 1990s and laid the groundwork for products like the Palm Pilot, the iPod, and the iPhone.

          • zaptrem 23 hours ago

            Probably would have just been Microsoft

        • soperj 1 day ago

          With Woz at the helm you probably would have ended up with a completely open hardware computer company.

          What would have Jobs been?

          • KingOfCoders 20 hours ago

            With Woz at the helm he would have worked on the Apple II architecture until the company went down, same fate as Commodore which didn't drop the Amiga and Atari which didn't drop the ST.

            • wpm 15 hours ago

              Without Jobs there never would have been an Apple Computer Inc. Woz would have been a kickass HP engineer and its very likely not many would know his name.

• mckenzba 1 day ago

  I remember loading this game on my video iPod back in 2005. It’s a tragedy that I never knew I could just play this through an Easter egg!

• nunez 1 day ago

  HOW DID I NEVER KNOW ABOUT THIS!!!!!!

• marcelo-earth 1 day ago

  Amazingg! I never owned an iPod, so this is my first chance to experience it, I had forgotten that I'd seen all those videos where you navigate using the wheel instead of the buttons

• russellbeattie 1 day ago

  Also, holding down the menu key for a second turns on the "backlight", like the real iPod (for those that don't know).

  Though it's cute that it's the 404 page, you can get to the page directly via https://music.apple.com/us/ipod.

• gxs 1 day ago

  It’s called out in the macrumors article linked in the submission fyi

sherburt3 1 day ago

• 98codes 1 day ago

  We do still need it. Any time to need to scroll through any extremely long list in order to find a single particular item, the scroll wheel beats the manual binary search of scrollscrollscroll... too far... scrollscrollscroll back... too far... etc.

  I would, unironically, use a device that had that iPod interface as a music device until my dying day. Make it only able to stream from Apple Music, make me load up songs through USB -- I'll do it.

  • notJim 1 day ago

    I have a logitech mouse that allows you to unclick the scroll wheel so you can scroll at tremendous speed (the scroll wheel has a bearing). I highly recommend this both because it's surprisingly useful and because it's incredibly satisfying.

    • allthetime 1 day ago

      The only problem with this scroll wheel is that the clicked mode does not actually guarantee a scroll event per click. There is a disconnect between the mechanical click and the actual event sensor. This is usually a non issue but if you try to use the scroll up/down as a bind in a game (fps jump for instance) it becomes painfully obvious.

      Oh and also scroll click isn’t a thing (but there is the middle button to bind)

      For normal work I absolutely love the unlocked flywheel scroll and won’t go back

      • LoganDark 1 day ago

        Another problem is that applications that try to implement smooth scroll for wheel events will actually drop events or screw up the animation, making the unlocked scroll useless or just as slow as normal.

        • allthetime 1 day ago

          As a general rule anything that scroll jacks is quickly removed from my computer or browser tab

          • wpm 14 hours ago

            There are tampermonkey/userscripts that can block websites from ever receiving the scroll events. They also exist for blocking overrides of native keyboard shortcuts. User CSS styles can block other methods of scroll fuckery.

            For apps? Yeeted into /dev/null.

            • LoganDark 13 hours ago

              > There are tampermonkey/userscripts that can block websites from ever receiving the scroll events.

              This breaks any site that uses virtual lists

          • LoganDark 1 day ago

            It's not (most) websites that do this, but the browsers and applications themselves. Games are also notorious for it. It's possible to configure it in some cases (like in Firefox), but in others it's just built-in and there's no knob.

        • ahartmetz 1 day ago

          Smooth scrolling for wheel events works fine in Firefox on Linux, speed and all. I have such a momentum wheel Logitech mouse. (I almost always leave the clicks engaged, the wheel can still keep going for quite a distance if flicked hard enough.)

        • zuhsetaqi 1 day ago

          Do you have an example application that does that? Used such Mouse a long time on Windows and now on Mac but never experienced that.

    • addaon 1 day ago

      The one that uses a semi-permanent magnet for that mechanism? It's the only use I'm aware of a switchable permanent magnet (alnico and rare earth half-cylinders wrapped in a coil; pulsing the coil switches the alnico to be either parallel or anti-parallel with the neodymium, turning the whole assembly on or off) in a commercial product; I bought it just for that.

      • JK-Swizzle 1 day ago

        They have multiple that can do this.

        It sounds like you are talking about the style in the MX Master, which is electromagnetic and controlled via software.

        They also have a physical version in the M720. I do not know how the mechanism works, but it is controlled by a mechanical switch on the mouse.

    • taneq 1 day ago

      I’ve used G502 mice for a decade now and the scroll wheel is central to how good they are. The MX Master mouse also has this but instead of a mechanical clickclack it has a button that switches an electropermanent magnet or something to enable/disable the free spin mode. It’s witchcraft.

    • ssl-3 1 day ago

      > I have a logitech mouse that allows you to unclick the scroll wheel

      Yeah, I've had one for few years now. It was always annoying to accidentally unlock the scroll wheel...

      > so you can scroll at tremendous speed (the scroll wheel has a bearing)

      ...but I never once gave the unlocked scroll wheel a whimsical flick until I read this part.

      I learned a thing! It works great. Thanks!

    • pdntspa 1 day ago

      I had a Logitech MX master or sth like that and it had one of those. Too bad it was made like crap. I went through two of them in two years.

      • the-pellmeister 14 hours ago

        I’m still rocking my OG first gen MX Master today, 11+ years and counting of daily backpack tossing, having survived 3 MacBooks and at least 7 chargers. My only secret? I bought a $10 padded case for it on Amazon the very first day I had the mouse, and zip it in there every time before it goes in my backpack.

        Everything works as new, the only thing that broke is the plastic covering the gesture button.

    • ta8903 1 day ago

      I use AHK to bind XB2 (the top side mouse button) + scroll to scroll fast, I agree that it is very useful. I got inspired by VS Code using alt+scroll for fast scroll and wanted that everywhere.