Can anyone explain why it's so difficult to get seamless playback? It seems you'd just have to say "ok, we got music from bytes 12312-234902384 in this track, and again starting at byte 23423 in this one, so as soon as we get close to the end of track 1, let's start decoding track 2". What's wrong with my assumption? Why do we ever get gaps (except for the recorded silence at the end of most tracks)?
Well, you could just record through the line in or optical in jacks that every MD recorder (AFAIK) has. Just plug your CD player or computer soundcard into the MD, and hit record. It works almost just like a cassette recorder. You only gain two things from the software: faster transfers, and digital transfers. Digital transfers can also be done from some CD players, and even some soundcards (I had an M-Audio Dio 2448 for this purpuse in my pre-Mac, pre-NetMD days).
Have you ever used MD? It has great quality, and has for the last 6 years at least.
Standard (SP) MiniDisc encoding is 292kbps ATRAC. ATRAC in general is slighly more faithful than Fraunhofer MP3, so this is roughly equivalent to 320kbps (certainly better than 256kbps) MP3. That's pretty damn good sound quality, and that's what you get when you put 74 minutes of music (or 148 minutes of mono audio) on the disc.
The LP modes use a newer codec, ATRAC 3 (where was ATRAC 2??), which achieves even better compression/quality. They use 132kbps (roughly like 160 or 192kbps MP3) or 66kbps (~80 or 96 kbps MP3). So yeah, the lowest quality/highest recording time option ain't so great, but the middle quality mode is pretty damn good still.
Sure, boycott Sony, though. The Sharp machines are generally more solid & much better for live recording.
I have a MOTU 828 audio recording interface, and since i installed 10.2.8 this morning, i get a kernel panic every time i plug in the MOTU. Hope they get that one fixed in 10.2.(x|x>8)...
Can't we talk about Macs on Slashdot without having to talk about whether they're overpriced or slow or whatever? I have a Mac, I like it, I use it for lots of things. I'd like to be able to discuss it, rather than just read x86 users' posts about how much better their platform is & why. This article is about a complier, not comparison shopping. Could we stick to that please??
Why have two different versions of the same program
As the parent mentioned, they're not the same program. Camino is Cocoa on top of Gecko; Firebird has the whole Mozilla XUL thing squeezed in, which is either great if you want all the Mozilla customizability, or terrible if you want a small, sleek browser.
people's choice not to use IE is the reason we still have web standards
Actually, it's people's choice not to use IE for Windows that helps web standards. IE/Mac is a pretty compliant browser, & was the most compliant non-beta browser on any platform for quite some time (until Mozilla 1.0 finally appeared). Of course it's now dead & won't be improved, so it's probably time to move on.
And some things (like postfix) absolutely WILL NOT start from SystemStarter. (I spent a LONG time on this one; I still have to log into my Mac after a reboot and issue 'postfix start' as root. It WILL NOT run from SystemStarter.)
Hmm, i simply installed "daemonic" from fink (as well as "postfix-release"), typed "sudo daemonic enable postfix", & it installed a "daemonic-postfix" item in/Library/StartupItems which starts Postfix automatically with every reboot. (Previous to daemonic's emergence, I'd rolled my own startup item, which was pretty easy as well-- I just copied the SSH one from/System/Library/StartupItems & changed a few things.) Try it out.
How much education do you think it takes to stand there and smile, and perhaps run an item over a scanner? I'd say, well, 2nd grade.
WalMart's big success is due to it's second-to-none computerized inventory system.
How much education does it take to use the correct form of "its?" "It's" means "it is;" "its" is the possessive form of "it." I only mention it because you're implying that Wal-Mart employees are uneducated & therefore deserve to be paid less than they need to survive.
My resolution for this year is to become optimal.. which means cutting back on anything that impacts my mind or body in the negative.
Man, reading what you've written (granted I don't know you at all), I'm a little concerned that you're extremely unforgiving of yourself, & don't allow yourself any enjoyment. I think that could impact your mind quite negatively. Really, it's ok to go to a café and talk to random strangers for an hour. You might even get new ideas that way! I know I'm more inspired when I interact with people at least semi-regularly. YMMV of course. Driving yourself hard is ok as long as you're not a sadistic taskmaster. Take care.
I don't like clubbing (who can afford $50/night to try to pick up drunk women who won't like you when they are sober)....
Yeah, i do that for free! But seriously, if you don't have time to invest in meeting people, do you have time to get to know people once you've met? Being social is not a means to an end.
Only young children can hear 20K; No human hears 22K
Not true. Even people who can't hear a pure 22kHz tone can often hear the difference when you have two samples, one with 22kHz as an overtone, the other with the 22kHz filtered out (or not generated, if it's a digitally-produced sample). & of course that's the stuff we're trying to record, natural instruments with real overtones, not pure sine waves at various frequencies.
That sounds a little odd. You're saying that with appropriate signal processing, you can make the record ``sound better'' than the vibrations encoded there? Why can't you similarly massage the digitized data? What is on the vinyl which isn't on the CD?
It's not that "with appropriate signal processing" the record improves, it's that there's almost infinite room to improve the playback equipment, & thereby produce a better unprocessed signal. A cheap CD player can get a lot of the right bits in the right places, but the problem is there's information missing "between the bits."
Since vinyl has a much more "natural" representation of sound (I'm speaking physically, in that the grooves are mathematically quite similar to the air pressure fluctuations of sound), there's less of a tendency to lose information. If anything, the main complaint with vinyl (& all analog media) is what gets added, such as hiss, pops, &c.
Finally! A WM that doesn't get in the way of Mozilla & her plans for total domination of all computing resources within range of her fiery breath! Yes, of course it is eevil. Gloriously, beautifully eeeevil!
Hmm, never heard of South Dakoda or North Dakoda. & the Sioux pronounce the last consonant of the word with a distinct "t" sound, hence the spelling "Dakota."
Oops, forgot to clarify, that's in the "U.S. Extended" keyboard layout. Incidentally, this layout (and any Unicode-based ones) won't work in every app. Textedit is fine though, & is actually what I mostly use for text editing these days.
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Wow that's a poorly-named API.
you misunderstood. He wants to add songs from his girlfriend's shared music to his own playlists. That's not possible under any iTunes version so far.
Can anyone explain why it's so difficult to get seamless playback? It seems you'd just have to say "ok, we got music from bytes 12312-234902384 in this track, and again starting at byte 23423 in this one, so as soon as we get close to the end of track 1, let's start decoding track 2". What's wrong with my assumption? Why do we ever get gaps (except for the recorded silence at the end of most tracks)?
peter
actually he might relax more if he took his pants off
yah but try finding good Fisher LSD on the street these days, damn drug war.
it's hardly difficult on osx... either check your energy saving settings, or type "sudo pmset -b reduce 0".
Well, you could just record through the line in or optical in jacks that every MD recorder (AFAIK) has. Just plug your CD player or computer soundcard into the MD, and hit record. It works almost just like a cassette recorder. You only gain two things from the software: faster transfers, and digital transfers. Digital transfers can also be done from some CD players, and even some soundcards (I had an M-Audio Dio 2448 for this purpuse in my pre-Mac, pre-NetMD days).
Have you ever used MD? It has great quality, and has for the last 6 years at least.
Standard (SP) MiniDisc encoding is 292kbps ATRAC. ATRAC in general is slighly more faithful than Fraunhofer MP3, so this is roughly equivalent to 320kbps (certainly better than 256kbps) MP3. That's pretty damn good sound quality, and that's what you get when you put 74 minutes of music (or 148 minutes of mono audio) on the disc.
The LP modes use a newer codec, ATRAC 3 (where was ATRAC 2??), which achieves even better compression/quality. They use 132kbps (roughly like 160 or 192kbps MP3) or 66kbps (~80 or 96 kbps MP3). So yeah, the lowest quality/highest recording time option ain't so great, but the middle quality mode is pretty damn good still.
Sure, boycott Sony, though. The Sharp machines are generally more solid & much better for live recording.
That should be "made into a big deal."
Love,
the grammar nazi
I have a MOTU 828 audio recording interface, and since i installed 10.2.8 this morning, i get a kernel panic every time i plug in the MOTU. Hope they get that one fixed in 10.2.(x|x>8)...
Can't we talk about Macs on Slashdot without having to talk about whether they're overpriced or slow or whatever? I have a Mac, I like it, I use it for lots of things. I'd like to be able to discuss it, rather than just read x86 users' posts about how much better their platform is & why. This article is about a complier, not comparison shopping. Could we stick to that please??
As the parent mentioned, they're not the same program. Camino is Cocoa on top of Gecko; Firebird has the whole Mozilla XUL thing squeezed in, which is either great if you want all the Mozilla customizability, or terrible if you want a small, sleek browser.
Actually, it's people's choice not to use IE for Windows that helps web standards. IE/Mac is a pretty compliant browser, & was the most compliant non-beta browser on any platform for quite some time (until Mozilla 1.0 finally appeared). Of course it's now dead & won't be improved, so it's probably time to move on.
Hmm, i simply installed "daemonic" from fink (as well as "postfix-release"), typed "sudo daemonic enable postfix", & it installed a "daemonic-postfix" item in /Library/StartupItems which starts Postfix automatically with every reboot. (Previous to daemonic's emergence, I'd rolled my own startup item, which was pretty easy as well-- I just copied the SSH one from /System/Library/StartupItems & changed a few things.) Try it out.
How much education does it take to use the correct form of "its?" "It's" means "it is;" "its" is the possessive form of "it." I only mention it because you're implying that Wal-Mart employees are uneducated & therefore deserve to be paid less than they need to survive.
hell, i'll give you 4K, if you'll come pick up my VIC-20 that houses it.
Man, reading what you've written (granted I don't know you at all), I'm a little concerned that you're extremely unforgiving of yourself, & don't allow yourself any enjoyment. I think that could impact your mind quite negatively. Really, it's ok to go to a café and talk to random strangers for an hour. You might even get new ideas that way! I know I'm more inspired when I interact with people at least semi-regularly. YMMV of course. Driving yourself hard is ok as long as you're not a sadistic taskmaster. Take care.
Yeah, i do that for free! But seriously, if you don't have time to invest in meeting people, do you have time to get to know people once you've met? Being social is not a means to an end.
Not true. Even people who can't hear a pure 22kHz tone can often hear the difference when you have two samples, one with 22kHz as an overtone, the other with the 22kHz filtered out (or not generated, if it's a digitally-produced sample). & of course that's the stuff we're trying to record, natural instruments with real overtones, not pure sine waves at various frequencies.
It's not that "with appropriate signal processing" the record improves, it's that there's almost infinite room to improve the playback equipment, & thereby produce a better unprocessed signal. A cheap CD player can get a lot of the right bits in the right places, but the problem is there's information missing "between the bits."
Since vinyl has a much more "natural" representation of sound (I'm speaking physically, in that the grooves are mathematically quite similar to the air pressure fluctuations of sound), there's less of a tendency to lose information. If anything, the main complaint with vinyl (& all analog media) is what gets added, such as hiss, pops, &c.
Finally! A WM that doesn't get in the way of Mozilla & her plans for total domination of all computing resources within range of her fiery breath! Yes, of course it is eevil. Gloriously, beautifully eeeevil!
Hmm, never heard of South Dakoda or North Dakoda. & the Sioux pronounce the last consonant of the word with a distinct "t" sound, hence the spelling "Dakota."
Or perhaps the Republican party?
You said "unpossible" & you're calling someone else uneducated?
Oops, forgot to clarify, that's in the "U.S. Extended" keyboard layout. Incidentally, this layout (and any Unicode-based ones) won't work in every app. Textedit is fine though, & is actually what I mostly use for text editing these days.