Digital Lifestyle
Cloudscout
– December 16, 2007 02:54PM
"Digital hubs." iPod and its successors. (iPhone?) Convergence. How ridiculous will DRM get? Yep, put it all together and it just might make for a successful thread.
El Jeffe
– October 12, 2011 01:35PM
What a journey.
so glad I don't have an iOS device.
I just had Apple's crack software people blow my wife's iPod Touch away. iOS 5 update said "Ooops. Sorry. Here's a blank iPod now......"
John Willoughby
– October 12, 2011 02:02PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
On days when the servers are stressed, updates are dicey. I may try with my phone tonight. If it works, then maybe the iPad.
El Jeffe
– October 12, 2011 03:04PM
What a journey.
It was able to restore, then complete update and such.
I did not know that the older iPod Touches cannot update to iOS 5. (3 of our 4 are the older ones)
Still looks like LION is needed for full-blown eco-system (iCloud, etc)
ddt
– October 12, 2011 05:03PM
Obviously, Mr. Willoughby, you do not purchase your wallets at the same establishments Wall St. traders do.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
ddt
John Willoughby
– October 12, 2011 05:40PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Maybe I do. Maybe that's why they need the warning slips in there.
John Willoughby
– October 27, 2011 04:05PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Cloudscout
– November 11, 2011 04:56PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Tonight I finally started re-ripping my entire CD Collection from scratch. I decided to rip it all as 256K MP3 files because I was tired of my AAC files not being playable on various devices.
tliet
– November 12, 2011 01:57AM
Why not rip them as Apple Lossless, at least you can then convert them to anything else without having to touch your CDs again.
Cloudscout
– November 12, 2011 07:29AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
I thought about that but it's going to be enough work just to re-rip 600 CDs. Having to then convert everything after ripping isn't worth the time to me. The likelihood of a new format becoming ubiquitous in the next several years is pretty slim.
Cloudscout
– November 12, 2011 02:09PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
I just looked at the metadata for some of my old files. I encoded most of my older stuff as 160k MP3 files with iTunes 1.0. Heh.
Jeff Cooper
– November 12, 2011 04:20PM
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Cloudscout
I just looked at the metadata for some of my old files. I encoded most of my older stuff as 160k MP3 files with iTunes 1.0. Heh.
Yes, I have a whole bunch of those, too. I thought I was going for such high quality. Heh.
tomierna
(Admin)
– November 12, 2011 05:08PM
Hideously Unnatural
CS, you should really rip them as ALAC or FLAC and use a batch re-encoder like Max.
Put the lossless collection on a hard drive and let them sit for the next time you decide to change lossy formats.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– November 12, 2011 09:19PM
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Jeff Cooper
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Cloudscout
I just looked at the metadata for some of my old files. I encoded most of my older stuff as 160k MP3 files with iTunes 1.0. Heh.
Yes, I have a whole bunch of those, too. I thought I was going for such high quality. Heh.
Now you see, I thought ahead - I went for a whole 192k...
El Jeffe
– November 13, 2011 02:48AM
What a journey.
As I age and other variables, my ears can't discern such things. And that's when I'm paying attention. I rip mine at 32/mono. ;)
[Full disclosure : mostly audio book CDs.... lol]
Cloudscout
– November 13, 2011 08:32AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
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El Jeffe
As I age and other variables, my ears can't discern such things. And that's when I'm paying attention. I rip mine at 32/mono. ;)
[Full disclosure : mostly audio book CDs.... lol]
A large percentage of my MP3 files are 32k mono... but they're Old Time Radio shows. Heh.
El Jeffe
– November 13, 2011 08:45AM
What a journey.
I think it's nothing short of AMAZING how much content one can cram into a small space using 32/mono!
Cloudscout
– November 13, 2011 12:36PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
A nice side-effect of this process is that I'm rediscovering a bunch of music that I had forgotten about because it somehow didn't get ripped before now.
Unfortunately, I'm also rediscovering a bunch of music that could have just as well remained forgotten.
El Jeffe
– November 13, 2011 04:06PM
What a journey.
ok. I don't get why lyrics aren't part of digital music.
tomierna
(Admin)
– November 13, 2011 04:35PM
Hideously Unnatural
Licensing. Lyrics are licensed in a different manner, through a different set of entities, than the music.
El Jeffe
– November 14, 2011 12:32AM
What a journey.
granted. I am surprised it has not been included in songs regardless of how circuitous a route it must take.
