Oh gosh. I saw this first at Rox's place and have resisted so far but if you like it, I may have to give it a try. Damn you, Thomas Nephew!
It tells you something about my technological adventurousness and savvy that today, at the Project Playlist site, was the first time I've ever played music online apart from clicking on embedded YouTube videos at Atrios.
The selection is quirky; I went looking for John Prine's 'Bruised Orange', but settled for another cut from that album, 'Fish and A Whistle'.
Perhaps I've cooked too much in aluminum...perhaps I just don't get today's kids and their rappin' and their humpin' and textin' and scraping sticks along my white picket fence...
But how, exactly, do you dump your playlist onto your Ipod?
I probably expressed that badly, I don't think you can just dump the whole playlist onto your iPod wholesale. All I meant was the "GET MUSIC TRACKS" link at the bottom of the playlist panel. That leads you to a web page where you can order any of the listed songs via iTunes and load them onto your iPod. (Warning: annoying ads, but I suppose we must be grateful they choose to spend their money this way...) My point was that way the artist makes... whatever artists make on single song sales via iTunes.
Once you have a Project Playlist, you can add tracks either from other ProjectPlaylists like mine or by hunting around. Those tracks are stored as .mp3 files hither and yon, and you are basically setting up a list of the URLs involved; I guess you can save those files to your computer and probably transfer them to your iPod from there.
PS,2/27: as the Pr.Playlist header frame notes for each such site if you click through via their site: Some music files located in this site may be subject to copyright. To be safe, don't download from this site. If you like it, click here to download from itunes.
More on Project Playlist here: Project Playlist - Building THE MP3 Search Engine (and the Coolest Thing Since Sliced Bread). Despite the title, the article identifies the inherent problems with this setup, mainly that (1) it may be unwelcome attention for some folks who didn't plan on the bandwidth loads heavier use of these files will cause, and (2) it's not clear that the developers' "we're just a search engine" disclaimer will do the legal trick.
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