It is the concept of a corporation itself that is flawed. The fact that there are harmless corporations as well as evil corporations does not preclude one from wishing to see the end of all of them.
The truth is that corporations do not act -- only individuals act. Yet corporations cannot be punished as individuals could be punished for serious crimes -- thrown in jail, executed for capital crimes, etc. A person can be held liable for more than their net worth. A corporation cannot. Yet corporations can shield people from personal responsibility to society and the law. That is the problem.
Most of what you said is quite true. And some of us would exclusively support artists who shunned the DRM system, if it was easy enough to legally find digital music from artists who didn't want to handcuff their customers. Hopefully, mp3tunes.com will be that easy new way.
have a lot in common. Microsoft is personally responsible for millions of infected PCs, due to their irresponsible security practices, and the pope is personally responsible for millions of people contracting HIV, due to his influence in opposing sex education and condom distribution.
Sure, Atkins works. There are plenty of ways to starve your body and lose weight. I'm a fan of the "big rock in the throat" diet, myself. It's even more effective than Atkins.
There are more than one million songs on iTunes Music Store, and if you've ever shopped there, you'll find that their catalog is quite sparse in anything other than songs that have been on the billboard charts.
Once you consider music available from independent artists, DJs, and the various versions recorded of each song -- remixes, live versions, radio versions, album versions, etc. -- I'm guessing that iTMS may only cover 1 percent of what has been recorded in the US by real artists.
That said, a large percentage of Mercora's 20 million song claim is certainly duplicates.
Sony is evil because they're the only major media content creator who also makes hardware, and they could have prevented this whole drm nightmare and put everyone else out of business by selling their albums on Memory Sticks and selling Memory Stick mp3 players. But they were too protective of their precious content and spent all their time on SuperCD and ATRAC. Way to go, guys. Now you're four years behind Apple and you'll never catch up.
iTunes is oh so overated.
1. Subpar mp3 encoding
2. nonstandard id3 tags
3. library doesn't auto-update
4. no intelligent auto-playlists (like MoodLogic or Predixis will create, based on the music itself, not the id3 tags)
5. takes way too much memory in Windows, even when its not running
6. All-in-one interface is annoying. Ripping CDs is a very different activity from listening to CDs.
Nah, you only have to look out for clipping in the 16-bit digital world.
24 bits and above give you so much headroom that there's no need to ride the signal anywhere near 0dB.
By this argument, you could never own an apartment, rental house or hotel, because child abuse could be committed on your property.
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The studio I work at bid on a project to archive all analog tapes for a major label. They have decided that ProTools HD 24bit/96khz is pristine enough, and enough of a standard, to play their analog masters one more time.
Yeah. Most of this stuff (media centers, wi-fi streaming, etc.) is a solution in search of a problem.
My laptop has a mini-jack audio out and an S-Video video out. All my media streams over $12 of cables from Radio Shack.
Hell, I can't put my whole collection on an iPod. (70gb and climbing).
What matters to me is having more tunes than battery life, and fast upload of new files, and management of playlists.
When the flash-based players get into the 5gb range, that will be when I get one.
Do you honestly think that you can get an appreciable difference between 16/44 and 24/192 outside of a professional studio?
Outside the studio is actually when greater bit depth is more important. It lets you capture a quality signal without riding the meters right up to distortion.
A 24-bit signal recorded peaking at -48dB still uses 16-bits of data to capture the audio. Try that with a 16-bit signal, and you'll only be capturing 8 real bits of data.
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The truth is that corporations do not act -- only individuals act. Yet corporations cannot be punished as individuals could be punished for serious crimes -- thrown in jail, executed for capital crimes, etc. A person can be held liable for more than their net worth. A corporation cannot. Yet corporations can shield people from personal responsibility to society and the law. That is the problem.
Um, a false negative?
Most of what you said is quite true. And some of us would exclusively support artists who shunned the DRM system, if it was easy enough to legally find digital music from artists who didn't want to handcuff their customers. Hopefully, mp3tunes.com will be that easy new way.
have a lot in common. Microsoft is personally responsible for millions of infected PCs, due to their irresponsible security practices, and the pope is personally responsible for millions of people contracting HIV, due to his influence in opposing sex education and condom distribution.
Sure, Atkins works. There are plenty of ways to starve your body and lose weight. I'm a fan of the "big rock in the throat" diet, myself. It's even more effective than Atkins.
Once you consider music available from independent artists, DJs, and the various versions recorded of each song -- remixes, live versions, radio versions, album versions, etc. -- I'm guessing that iTMS may only cover 1 percent of what has been recorded in the US by real artists.
That said, a large percentage of Mercora's 20 million song claim is certainly duplicates.
Sony is evil because they're the only major media content creator who also makes hardware, and they could have prevented this whole drm nightmare and put everyone else out of business by selling their albums on Memory Sticks and selling Memory Stick mp3 players. But they were too protective of their precious content and spent all their time on SuperCD and ATRAC. Way to go, guys. Now you're four years behind Apple and you'll never catch up.
My 12" powerbook is the epitome of a modern slim notebook. I added 512mb of RAM in about 30 seconds.
There was software and a PCI card called OASYS, but never a keyboard.
Is this thing actually for sale? The OASYS has been the Duke Nukem Forever of the audio world for at least five years.
If only it worked with my Dell Centrino laptop. Unfortunately I have to use the kludgy Intel wireless interface.
iTunes is oh so overated.
1. Subpar mp3 encoding
2. nonstandard id3 tags
3. library doesn't auto-update
4. no intelligent auto-playlists (like MoodLogic or Predixis will create, based on the music itself, not the id3 tags)
5. takes way too much memory in Windows, even when its not running
6. All-in-one interface is annoying. Ripping CDs is a very different activity from listening to CDs.
Nah, you only have to look out for clipping in the 16-bit digital world. 24 bits and above give you so much headroom that there's no need to ride the signal anywhere near 0dB.
By this argument, you could never own an apartment, rental house or hotel, because child abuse could be committed on your property.
The studio I work at bid on a project to archive all analog tapes for a major label. They have decided that ProTools HD 24bit/96khz is pristine enough, and enough of a standard, to play their analog masters one more time.
iTunes is non-standard, and impossible to properly configure.
I stopped using it after frustrations with its id3 tools (tags don't show up in other programs) and the inability to import with the LAME encoder.
Yeah. Most of this stuff (media centers, wi-fi streaming, etc.) is a solution in search of a problem. My laptop has a mini-jack audio out and an S-Video video out. All my media streams over $12 of cables from Radio Shack.
for what you did to the pigs.
Hell, I can't put my whole collection on an iPod. (70gb and climbing). What matters to me is having more tunes than battery life, and fast upload of new files, and management of playlists. When the flash-based players get into the 5gb range, that will be when I get one.
They may have more of a defense for writing the software, but not for sharing thousands of files with it themselves.
Check out the chilling story of Bob Kolody vs. Coca-Cola.
http://www.guerrillanews.com/cocakarma
Also necessary is for evil men to do something.
By inference, coders can't make money coding, painters can't make money painting, writers can't make money writing.
Outside the studio is actually when greater bit depth is more important. It lets you capture a quality signal without riding the meters right up to distortion.
A 24-bit signal recorded peaking at -48dB still uses 16-bits of data to capture the audio. Try that with a 16-bit signal, and you'll only be capturing 8 real bits of data.
How far apart are your ears?
Can you hear two channels of audio at once?