In my opinion the only way to do this right---that is, to play a gapless album in a truly gapless manner---is to encode it as one single track.
There are two ways to proceed from here. One is to split the large encoded file along track boundaries. Then you have to design the decoder in such a way that it doesn't flush its state between tracks.
The other is to use "Monkey's Audio" method. In this method, the album stays as one single file, but then you generate individual files for each track that basically contain the name of the file and the start and end positions. If you want to play the whole album, you select the album file; if you want to play an individual track, you select the index file.
Oh, and I might add: there is already a way to do all the things you want to do with your iTunes music: just burn them uncompressed to a CR-RW, then re-rip and re-encode them to MP3. That could be argued as a reason there's nothing wrong with Fairplay, since it just makes something easier to do that you already can do. But I just wanted to point it out for informational purposes---you are not currently prevented from doing the things you've listed.
I can't listen to it on portable MP3 players other than iPod. I can't put the files on my server and freely play them from any computer. I can't play them from standalone hardware players. I can't burn a hundred of them to a CD in data format and pop that disc in my in-car MP3 player.
You've got bigger problems than FairPlay. Apple's music in AAC encoded, meaning you'll have to transcode them to MP3. As heavily compressed as they already are you ought not bother. Find yourself an MP3-based service if that's really what you want to do. Then at least all you'll have to do is crack their DRM.
No, this is not the case. You cannot guarantee perfect reconstruction of the signal if it has any content at precisely the Nyquist frequency. For example, consider a sine wave at the Nyquist frequency---I can just sample it right at the zero crossings, and there will be no way to properly reconstruct it. So the content in the signal must be strictly below the Nyquist frequency.
That's why you need just over 2kHz to image a 1kHz wave. Even 2.0001kHz will do, if you use reconstruction filter that's close enough to perfect: you'll get perfect reproduction of the wave.
In practice that's a rather big "if" though. CD players don't use such nearly perfect reconstruction filters; they're too expensive to build. So in a practice, a CD player's useful frequency response end below the Nyquist limit of 22.05kHz, more like 18-20kHz.
I have a feeling that they may have been notified of certain contractual obligations, maybe even threatened quietly with lawsuits. I'm sure they wouldn't have bothered adding Macrovision unless they had been "reminded" to do so.
Actually the sales tax in Texas isn't that bad. In fact here in CA I'm paying about the same in property taxes and sales tax that I'd pay there in TX, plus I'm hit with a state income tax that tops out at 9.3% (for now). Not to say CA is the worst---but TX really isn't that bad when all is said and done.
So let me get this straight. From the very beginning, Qt and KDE has had non-free (beer) commercial licensing requirements; and initially it did was not considered free (libre) by Richard Stallman and GNU, at least until their licenses were modified.
And it was precisely because of this non-free status that Mr. Stallman and other free software advocates heavily encouraged the development and use of GNOME over KDE, despite KDE's initial head start.
And yet now we find that GNOME is the choice for UserLinux because it better supports the development of proprietary software on Linux!
Oh excuse me, GNU/Linux.
I get it!
Actually don't get me wrong, I understand the logic, it's just a funny twist on an old rivalry.
Reading that story from Singapore puzzles me. Does it strike anyone here as silly to have car locks that are controlled entirely electronically? I mean, power locks are great, don't get me wrong. But since they are by necessity mechanical anyway, so doesn't it make sense to provide a manual, mechanical means to lock and unlock them? Doing otherwise just seems like you're placing unnecessary trust in imperfect electronics.
Well yes, Aztecs did perform human sacrifice. But they were Native Americans, driven basically extinct by evil European explorers. So how dare you insult them by highlighting undesirable, but true, facts about their culture! Shame on you!
Yes, I guess that in order for the practice of taking something away, whether it is an object or a privilege, to work, it must be something that really is likely to remain desirable for the course of the punishment.
Methods of punishment just can't be set in stone. Parents need to be thoughtful and adaptible.
But dude, get those English grades up, or I'll personally kick your ass!:-) Seriously, be warned: it sounds like your stepmother will be happy to escalate the punishment if necessary:-(
As someone with a one-week old daughter, I am looking ahead with some trepidation to the kinds of decisions you find yourself making now. Needless to say I will be reading this thread with great interest, although the issues will likely be much different when my child is the age yours are now.
Likewise, things were much simpler when I was a child. I had a computer when I was 12, but it was a TRS-80 with a cassette drive and 32KB of RAM. I hadn't even a clue what a modem or BBS was. Not much trouble I could get into there:) Still, I really enjoyed that computer, so it was a tool my parents could use for discipline.
I still remember the time my mother took away my computer until I brought my grade up in English class. MAN was I steamed. But hey, it worked. Something to consider...
This isn't about ideological bias; it's about intellect.
Ah, you seem to think that one cannot be an idiot if one has intellect. I disagree with that position. Indeed, I acknowledge Mr. Vidal's knowledge and skills, but IMO that isn't enough to disqualify one from idiocy. Intellectual idiots are everywhere. In the world of partisan politics, in fact, one need only stroll across the aisle to find them (either direction; idiocy is of course in the eye of the beholder).
On the contrary, someone who hasn't lived elsewhere has no qualifications to comment on how the country is run.
If you had said someone who hasn't been elsewhere, I might at least consider it credible. But as you've stated it, this is just silly (or hyperbolic). I never said someone shouldn't have knowledge of other cultures or countries. But one hardly needs to live elsewhere for any extended length of time to gain such a working knowledge.
Are all Republican affiliates that obsessed with the urge to bash France for pointless, out-of the-context, reasons?
Sorry if the point was lost on you. Go check where Gore Vidal spends most of his life these days, and get back to me.
Hint: it's not the U.S.
It's not France either, but my point was that someone who prefers to live elsewhere is really not someone I'm interested in listening to on how my country is run. We have enough critics on both sides of the aisle within our borders, thank you.)
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There are two ways to proceed from here. One is to split the large encoded file along track boundaries. Then you have to design the decoder in such a way that it doesn't flush its state between tracks.
The other is to use "Monkey's Audio" method. In this method, the album stays as one single file, but then you generate individual files for each track that basically contain the name of the file and the start and end positions. If you want to play the whole album, you select the album file; if you want to play an individual track, you select the index file.
Oh, and I might add: there is already a way to do all the things you want to do with your iTunes music: just burn them uncompressed to a CR-RW, then re-rip and re-encode them to MP3. That could be argued as a reason there's nothing wrong with Fairplay, since it just makes something easier to do that you already can do. But I just wanted to point it out for informational purposes---you are not currently prevented from doing the things you've listed.
You've got bigger problems than FairPlay. Apple's music in AAC encoded, meaning you'll have to transcode them to MP3. As heavily compressed as they already are you ought not bother. Find yourself an MP3-based service if that's really what you want to do. Then at least all you'll have to do is crack their DRM.
If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em.
No, this is not the case. You cannot guarantee perfect reconstruction of the signal if it has any content at precisely the Nyquist frequency. For example, consider a sine wave at the Nyquist frequency---I can just sample it right at the zero crossings, and there will be no way to properly reconstruct it. So the content in the signal must be strictly below the Nyquist frequency.
That's why you need just over 2kHz to image a 1kHz wave. Even 2.0001kHz will do, if you use reconstruction filter that's close enough to perfect: you'll get perfect reproduction of the wave.
In practice that's a rather big "if" though. CD players don't use such nearly perfect reconstruction filters; they're too expensive to build. So in a practice, a CD player's useful frequency response end below the Nyquist limit of 22.05kHz, more like 18-20kHz.
I have a feeling that they may have been notified of certain contractual obligations, maybe even threatened quietly with lawsuits. I'm sure they wouldn't have bothered adding Macrovision unless they had been "reminded" to do so.
I won't argue with you, joe!
Yeah, 9.30% is the highest marginal tax rate. Figure in deductions and the lower rates on the first chunk of income, and the average amount goes down.
Actually the sales tax in Texas isn't that bad. In fact here in CA I'm paying about the same in property taxes and sales tax that I'd pay there in TX, plus I'm hit with a state income tax that tops out at 9.3% (for now). Not to say CA is the worst---but TX really isn't that bad when all is said and done.
So let me get this straight. From the very beginning, Qt and KDE has had non-free (beer) commercial licensing requirements; and initially it did was not considered free (libre) by Richard Stallman and GNU, at least until their licenses were modified.
And it was precisely because of this non-free status that Mr. Stallman and other free software advocates heavily encouraged the development and use of GNOME over KDE, despite KDE's initial head start.
And yet now we find that GNOME is the choice for UserLinux because it better supports the development of proprietary software on Linux!
Oh excuse me, GNU/Linux.
I get it!
Actually don't get me wrong, I understand the logic, it's just a funny twist on an old rivalry.
And let's not forget JVC D-ILA projectors, Hitachi LCOS projectors, the new Sony Qualia LCOS..
My fault, it was Thailand, not Singapore.
Sorry!
Reading that story from Singapore puzzles me. Does it strike anyone here as silly to have car locks that are controlled entirely electronically? I mean, power locks are great, don't get me wrong. But since they are by necessity mechanical anyway, so doesn't it make sense to provide a manual, mechanical means to lock and unlock them? Doing otherwise just seems like you're placing unnecessary trust in imperfect electronics.
In case someone wants to read some support for this assertion: National Geographic
Interestingly, there are, in fact, more people in slavery in the world today than there ever were in the United States.
Well yes, Aztecs did perform human sacrifice. But they were Native Americans, driven basically extinct by evil European explorers. So how dare you insult them by highlighting undesirable, but true, facts about their culture! Shame on you!
Yes, I guess that in order for the practice of taking something away, whether it is an object or a privilege, to work, it must be something that really is likely to remain desirable for the course of the punishment.
:-) Seriously, be warned: it sounds like your stepmother will be happy to escalate the punishment if necessary :-(
Methods of punishment just can't be set in stone. Parents need to be thoughtful and adaptible.
But dude, get those English grades up, or I'll personally kick your ass!
I had the coco too---just one with a 32K upgrade :)
As someone with a one-week old daughter, I am looking ahead with some trepidation to the kinds of decisions you find yourself making now. Needless to say I will be reading this thread with great interest, although the issues will likely be much different when my child is the age yours are now.
:) Still, I really enjoyed that computer, so it was a tool my parents could use for discipline.
Likewise, things were much simpler when I was a child. I had a computer when I was 12, but it was a TRS-80 with a cassette drive and 32KB of RAM. I hadn't even a clue what a modem or BBS was. Not much trouble I could get into there
I still remember the time my mother took away my computer until I brought my grade up in English class. MAN was I steamed. But hey, it worked. Something to consider...
This isn't about ideological bias; it's about intellect.
Ah, you seem to think that one cannot be an idiot if one has intellect. I disagree with that position. Indeed, I acknowledge Mr. Vidal's knowledge and skills, but IMO that isn't enough to disqualify one from idiocy. Intellectual idiots are everywhere. In the world of partisan politics, in fact, one need only stroll across the aisle to find them (either direction; idiocy is of course in the eye of the beholder).
Hey, that was pretty good! Touche'.
On the contrary, someone who hasn't lived elsewhere has no qualifications to comment on how the country is run.
If you had said someone who hasn't been elsewhere, I might at least consider it credible. But as you've stated it, this is just silly (or hyperbolic). I never said someone shouldn't have knowledge of other cultures or countries. But one hardly needs to live elsewhere for any extended length of time to gain such a working knowledge.
Very interesting, I hadn't heard that before. Thanks for the insight!
Are all Republican affiliates that obsessed with the urge to bash France for pointless, out-of the-context, reasons?
Sorry if the point was lost on you. Go check where Gore Vidal spends most of his life these days, and get back to me.
Hint: it's not the U.S.
It's not France either, but my point was that someone who prefers to live elsewhere is really not someone I'm interested in listening to on how my country is run. We have enough critics on both sides of the aisle within our borders, thank you.)