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I need to do this. So much 128kbpsness.
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also even though I have the new remaster discs of UF Orb and Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld I'm keeping my old copies because whoa sentimental value I've had those things for like 13 years

I am kind of a crabby mommy, tbh. I'm just trying to keep them from tossing me out with the brownies.

Tom - why did you re-rip everything?

Upt0eleven - hello!

oooh, tehresa, good luck with the prospective job!

is 256 performance qwality? i've considered doing this but an mp3's still an mp3 innit?

hello Sara! yessum pls wiv the brownies.

I've been ripping all the discs I'm selling back at 160 in AAC format, the logic being that since I'm pretty much ditching stuff I haven't heard in years I'm not about to spend too much time worrying about optimum sound quality and which I'll only want to hear one song or another from in the future anyway.

Anyone who visits gets brownies (as long as I have a bit of warning time so I can make them... and uh, the person doesn't hate brownies or something).

I boggle at imagining Ned's music collection.

i imagine Ned must manipulate apace time and have a flux-capacitor to accomodate all the listening.

I re-ripped all my discs because I started buying some things off of amazon's mp3 store, which has everything at 192-256 VBR. After noting that several of these sounded better than a lot of my 128 AACs and that AAC is a totally lame proprietary asshole format for jerks, I deleted everything and started over. I would consider 192+ VBR "performance quality" for DJing and such, I use powered monitors for home listening and I like to crank it from time to time.

I can't really tell hardly any diff between iTunes' ripping at 256 VBR and 320, either. Other rippers might give better results on that front but idk

It's odd, what happens.

AAC is a totally lame proprietary asshole format for jerks

I weep. (Really, I just treat it as useful storage. Regular listening is still done via CD on the stereo system.)

I rip everything at 192. It's my go-to.

Also Tom, every time you post now, regardless of what you've written I'm going to assume you were listening to "Shake Your Booty" at the time you wrote it.

I figure when it comes down to ripping stuff I actually will want to hear regularly (and that time will come) I'll up the rate.

if you change that to "Keep It Live" by the Dazz Band, it would actually be correct.

i think i'm convinced. but i still resent the fact that (merely out of practical necessity) 90% of my listening is from a compressed format. when i move things will be better.

Today my "play on repeat" song has been "Bamboo Banger". I made up a lawn sprinklerish dance to go with the opening bassline while I was getting ready in the bathroom.

(yes I realize how sad/awesome (delete as applicable) that is)

holy shit tom what a task.

i rip at 192, but use AAC because gold cablers told me it was better. will doubtless regret that in 10 years.

I've just been ripping at 320, but I can be a bit zany sometimes.

One thing I've found (and one reason why I'm hardly dumping all my discs at once) is that if I don't have the visual prompt of a CD spine or the like I often forget about what I have. This is obviously in part due to what I'm used to as a personal standard; someone who grew up with iTunes, say, will have a different perspective. For me even using the search tool is not an intuitive approach.

estela: that should be you now, all details the same as here. (I don't know what yr password is btw, we encrypt them)

I'm surprisingly much quicker with coverflow, especially on iPhone. Something about remembering objects rather than names. Hate the blank covers tho

your music talk is not making my day very exciting

and i'm sure the whole of itr's main concern is my general disposition

much the same as one can't "browse" online as one can in an actual record shop no? you have to have at least some idea of what you're looking for.

ned to x-post

i get here ---> itr gets boring ---> everyone leaves.

is that whut you're saying?

MAKE RUBYREDD'S DAY

YES PRECISELY

Today's music purchase -- that double-disc reissue of Tubeway Army's _Replicas_, which surely must rule. (As I muttered elsewhere I honestly think that the only CDs I'm going to be regularly purchasing from here on in are gussied up special editions -- and by that I don't mean those idiot releases they do these days six months after the album's first release, I mean things like that Numan reissue. My other goal -- use as much credit where possible at Amoeba and the like to never actually have to purchase them.)

oh this is priceless:

nobody ever said in some ILX constitution written on eco-friendly recycled parchment that this was supposed to be some socialist discussocracy designed to advance the human race. i don't know about other people, but i use it to make time go faster and give trayce shit somewhere other than livejournal.

-- Mikey Bidness

One thing I don't get about that secret board thread is how I was randomly invoked from time to time.

The best invocation of you was Dom's rickroll!

That, I admit, was pretty great.

thanks stet!

Okay, but THIS is greater:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KANI2dpXLw

hahahahahaha that is awesome

Just perfect. Red hair, even!

I actually think that was the only RickRoll I watched all the way through.

i am pretty much terrified of ever clicking on a link on ilx ever again because of rickroll.

Oh god the technical music/ripping talk; I am going to have to get A. to interpret for me later. I just download from iTunes or rip at whatever number/setting A. has it set at and never think about it.

As for music, I was still in Swan Lake land today.

i'm still listening to the same 3 or 4 albums i've been listening to for a year. i have a playlist of about 20-25 songs that i listen to while falling asleep/asleep, and maybe 3 albums that i listen to on my mp3 player everyday to and from work. i am exceedingly narrowminded, boring and picky when it comes to music.

and that said, anyone who would like to send me mix cds would be awesome. i'm finally getting ready to move onto some new stuff.

yuh I haven't been listening to much music lately at all. Too busy destroying at Bioshock.

Said 3 to 4 albums are:

John Howard Interprets the Great Love Songs
Winston Peters -- Return of the Mack
Helen Clark's spoken word interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi
Ken Rudd -- Confessions of a Dancefloor

There's also some rumor that the Australian Environmental Minister gigged with some pub band in his spare time but nobody would believe such nonsense.

u mean kev rudd?

Bah, you and your pathetic so-called 'facts'

I will make you one, RR! And then send it to... NZ? Or wait until this summer when you are here and then send it to CA? (I might not manage, timewise, until this summer anyway...?)

I totally get into music ruts and then I'll hear a song I haven't heard for a while and get onto a totally different tangent.

Or sometimes someone will recommend an album and I'll get hooked (I'm thinking specifically of Dan recommending Depeche Mode's Playing the Angel, which I owned but hadn't really found time to listen to until he made a big deal about it...)

Such wisdom!