I put common in quotes for a reason, and it wasn't to quote someone...
My "limited part of the world" is innundated with iPods. I live in a college town, they're a fashion statement here.
By "common" I meant a format that is used in more devices. Overall percentage? Yes, the Apple format is most certainly more widespread, but is generally used in only iPod/iTunes. If, OTOH, each device counts as ONE device, then I guarantee that the FLAC format is much more common. The same for commercial music distribution, not just bootlegs. There are more places to buy lossless music in FLAC than there are lossless AAC. iTunes has the largest volume of sales though, obviously. (Does iTunes typically even sell lossless tracks? Do iPod users typically care about lossless?)
Not that I've looked, but is there a decent list of devices which play apple-lossless somewhere? The http://flac.sourceforge.net/ site has a pretty comprehensive one for FLAC.
As for your second point: I agree about the computation needed for lossless vs lossy formats. (AAC can be either though, right?) The original parent poster noted that the hiccuping occured on large lossless files, not lossy, due to the high bitrate. Again, I agree with you when saying that any HD should be able to transfer the data at that rate, so there's "absolutely no reason why it should hiccough." But if that is the case, why does the iPod?
It doesn't currently, true. But by now knowing it, I'd be hesitant in buying an iPod moreso than before. Perhaps I should've said "drive me away from buying an iPod" since I already have a DAP I like which doesn't have this problem.
Reason why it WOULD affect me? : I listen to lots of bootlegs in lossless (FLAC) encoding. Hearing skipping in the middle of songs would irritate me.
I think the parent poster might be right. From what I've seen, Fx seems to memory-bloat because of some sort of caching, or by not reusing old previously used memory areas. (?)
If I start a fresh Fx run, and do heavy surfing (esp. many images, and moreso with viewing movies within Fx.) the memory that it uses swells up pretty quickly. OTOH, opening a fresh Fx to a blank page, or something minimalish like google, it can sit around for days and the memory used doesn't change.
And the iPod is certainly the finest music experience out there - by far.
THE FINEST? It is to laugh! Assuming that by "musical experience" here you really mean "digital audio players," are you either a fanboy or just uninformed?
The Apple DAPs:
- Can't play Vorbis(ogg) or FLAC. Both formats are becoming more and more popular. FLAC is THE preferred encoding in lossless music trading.
- Have above average, but not the best, D/A output circuitry.
- Can't play songs in order gaplessly. (only the Rio Karma did?)
- Has a lousy EQ.
- Are overly pricey.
Besides being very trendy, please explain why an iPod is even close to being the "finest musical experience out there - by far."
To use your own anology, the $249 for 4GB complaint from myself would be more like looking at some $50k car and realizing that "its engine isn't powerful, not efficient, the stereo sucks, the seats are uncomfortable, and I've seen better road handling on 18-wheelers. It has OK style and is trendy though..."
Hrmmm... the Rio Karma has always tracked the number of times a song has been played as well as when the last time was.
In addition, it has more smart "shuffle" modes than any other device I've seen:
Random (normal shuffle of the current playlist)
Entertain me (15 mins - 8 hours of the most played tracks.)
Play All ( sorted by Album, Artist, Genre, or Year)
Top Tunes ( play the most played 10-250 tunes )
New Music (songs newer than 1day-1year)
Memory Lane (songs not played in the past 1day-1yr)
Sounds of... ( select your decade )
Forgotten Gems (old favorites not played in the past 1day-1yr)
Deja Vu (only tracks that were played in the last 1day-1yr)
Random Mix (anything, lasting 15mins-8hrs (or all))
Gapless and lossless(FLAC) playing are gravy.
(really good gravy.)
It doesn't allow you to rate the tracks, but number of times played kind is similar. If a tune that you would rank low begins, and you next track, the count isn't incremented. High personally ranked songs will most likely be played fully through, and thus have the highest playcount.
Few devices can actually output a signal which is truly suitable for amplification.
And that's why I'm replacing my toaster tomorrow. No matter what I put into it, amplification seems to only reproduce low frequencies. 60 Hz is crystal clear though!
That one flaw alone would be enough to drive me away from an iPod. Thanks for mentioning it!
And Apple's lossless format isn't even that common, outside of the Apple domain. Can anyone explain why they don't include support for a "common" encoding, like FLAC?
I listen to live bootlegs a ton, and trade them in lossless formats. The most widely accepted encoding for lossless trading is FLAC, with Shorten in second place.
I love my Rio Karma for that - it plays FLAC at compression lvl 8 (max) just fine and dandy. Never once have I heard any pauses due to buffering, even for VERY large FLAC files. Listening to two 130+ MB songs in a row without even a hiccup between songs (gapless! yay!) is really quite nice.
The spacecraft has switched into a "safe mode", in which the instruments and some other systems are turned off. ... In this mode, MGS turns off its science instruments but leaves many other systems on. ... Controllers want to get the spacecraft out of safe mode as quickly as possible because it can use up to 10 times more fuel than it would during its normal operating mode.
With science instruments, the high-gain antenna, and other systems shut down, why would the thing use 10x more fuel than usual?
scroll the map just a little bit to the East (or to the right, whatever.) Note the Sphynx!
And the little pool to the NNE of the pyramids, that's where I stayed on vacation last year. Seeing the pyramids on TV and in phots never overly impressed me. Waking up, and opening my hotel room door to see them right there... THAT was impressive!
(most of) The super-villians in Gotham aren't bio-augmented either; they're generally insane and disfigured. They are considered to be "super" because of the depths of crime they hope to succeed in. As a real example, I'd consider Hitler to be a super-villian, though he certainly had no special abilities (other than normal charisma.)
Bruce Wayne trained to fight and uses gadgets to assist. Thats' why I favor Batman over any other super heros; he's a normal (non-mutant) human. A "regular" hero is the guy who saves a baby from a burning building. A super-hero saves the world/city from burning, time and time again!!
My guess is that your definition is incorrect. One doesn't need super-powers in order to be a super hero/villian!
Is $150 for a lower end Athlon 64 really THAT EXPENSIVE?
No, of course most wouldn't try to overclock an IBM server or clustered 20 4-way xeons. Why? Most people DO NOT OWN THOSE. That's corporate equipment. People can afford to play with $150 chips at home, and will.
I did my resume up in LaTex a few years ago when I was a graduating Senior. I handed it out at the career fair, though I had no intentions of taking employment anywhere; gradschool was a'callin'.
The point here being, it did LOOK different, and in my opinion better, than most everyone else's resume. It caught interviewer's eyes immediately.
My homepage had four file types for them, as above, LaTeX, DVI, PS, and PDF. All print out the same exact way - always. For any corp. I thought would want to OCR the thing, I made a "scannable" version using a plain ascii text file. Different keywords, no formatting, etc.
So I disagree. The LOOK does in fact matter when dealing face to face with people. The file formats (PS and PDF) should be printable by 99.9999 percent of possible employers, and guarantee that the resume will always print the same. OCR? Feed the robot the text file.
The whole reason I did this was BECAUSE MS-Word was printing the thing differently on different systems. So surely your solution of "use their format" to save the style from changing was, to me, useless.
I have friends who were also straight-A, honors students in 9th grade, but who are now B students in regents classes (the lowest level in my school) for six hours of the day, and are Everquest and World of Warcraft grinders for the other sixteen.
FLAC is lossless, and comes in at about 60% the size of the original WAV file. It can always be decompressed and burned to CD, giving a duplicate of the original. So you get to keep that fidelity.
The Rio Karma plays FLAC files. With its 20 GB harddrive, that's ~60 of your CDs with you in a space of about 1/4th that of your CD player, not to mention the booklet needed to carry round those 60 CDs. Not bad for a player that's been around for a few years. Great audio output signal and power, 5-band parametric EQ, etc.
Maybe I should say it "played" FLAC. Looks like its no longer being made, and we await the Karma2/Chroma. Pretty cool device if you get one of the remaining ones, currently cost under $200.
Seriously, check out "indie" radio... NPR. Its the one on your dial that doesn't play commercials, isn't owned by ClearChannel, etc etc
College radio stations work as well.
Recently, I've been listening to the Detroit NPR station, WDET. Here's the link to their stream selection: http://www.wdetfm.org/listenlive/
They play a nice range of music, and have a GREAT Jazz show on at 7pm EST.
On the I2. In bed with the RIAA. Ex-MPAA honcho Valenti was chummy with the prez (Spanier.)
Spanier and crew are probably trying to make this look like Penn State is the white-knight here... not to mention making the other PA universities (CMU and Pitt) look bad!!
Besides, I haven't heard about any local "independant" group that isn't metal in some form or another (Death, Christian, Heavy, whatever) or punk.
where's this cave you apparently live in?
I'm (stuck) in a college town (@ Penn State,) its the only major town within a 45 min drive. ALL of the bands here are independant, and very few are metal, let alone any popular ones. That's been the case for years around here... blues, ska, regae, rock, funk... not metal or punk. Hell, even JAZZ bands are more popular (thank heavens)
Almost sounds like I'm plugging bands in this town... so I might as well! Check out his band of young-ins... only half of which are old enough to drink at the bars they play at. The Nightcrawlers - http://www.the-nightcrawlers.com/audio/african_ech o.mp3
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No. I have a clue. But thanks for playing!
I put common in quotes for a reason, and it wasn't to quote someone...
My "limited part of the world" is innundated with iPods. I live in a college town, they're a fashion statement here.
By "common" I meant a format that is used in more devices. Overall percentage? Yes, the Apple format is most certainly more widespread, but is generally used in only iPod/iTunes. If, OTOH, each device counts as ONE device, then I guarantee that the FLAC format is much more common. The same for commercial music distribution, not just bootlegs. There are more places to buy lossless music in FLAC than there are lossless AAC. iTunes has the largest volume of sales though, obviously. (Does iTunes typically even sell lossless tracks? Do iPod users typically care about lossless?)
Not that I've looked, but is there a decent list of devices which play apple-lossless somewhere? The http://flac.sourceforge.net/ site has a pretty comprehensive one for FLAC.
As for your second point: I agree about the computation needed for lossless vs lossy formats. (AAC can be either though, right?) The original parent poster noted that the hiccuping occured on large lossless files, not lossy, due to the high bitrate. Again, I agree with you when saying that any HD should be able to transfer the data at that rate, so there's "absolutely no reason why it should hiccough." But if that is the case, why does the iPod?
It doesn't currently, true. But by now knowing it, I'd be hesitant in buying an iPod moreso than before. Perhaps I should've said "drive me away from buying an iPod" since I already have a DAP I like which doesn't have this problem.
Reason why it WOULD affect me? : I listen to lots of bootlegs in lossless (FLAC) encoding. Hearing skipping in the middle of songs would irritate me.
yeah, those are all standard in the Karma itself. I was browsing the options inside the menu while typing up that list.
Not that I use any of them all that much, except for the normal shuffle/random all, which I use most of the time.
I think the parent poster might be right. From what I've seen, Fx seems to memory-bloat because of some sort of caching, or by not reusing old previously used memory areas. (?)
If I start a fresh Fx run, and do heavy surfing (esp. many images, and moreso with viewing movies within Fx.) the memory that it uses swells up pretty quickly. OTOH, opening a fresh Fx to a blank page, or something minimalish like google, it can sit around for days and the memory used doesn't change.
THE FINEST? It is to laugh! Assuming that by "musical experience" here you really mean "digital audio players," are you either a fanboy or just uninformed?
The Apple DAPs:
- Can't play Vorbis(ogg) or FLAC. Both formats are becoming more and more popular. FLAC is THE preferred encoding in lossless music trading.
- Have above average, but not the best, D/A output circuitry.
- Can't play songs in order gaplessly. (only the Rio Karma did?)
- Has a lousy EQ.
- Are overly pricey.
Besides being very trendy, please explain why an iPod is even close to being the "finest musical experience out there - by far."
To use your own anology, the $249 for 4GB complaint from myself would be more like looking at some $50k car and realizing that "its engine isn't powerful, not efficient, the stereo sucks, the seats are uncomfortable, and I've seen better road handling on 18-wheelers. It has OK style and is trendy though..."
Hrmmm... the Rio Karma has always tracked the number of times a song has been played as well as when the last time was.
... ( select your decade )
/mourn Rio
In addition, it has more smart "shuffle" modes than any other device I've seen:
Random (normal shuffle of the current playlist)
Entertain me (15 mins - 8 hours of the most played tracks.)
Play All ( sorted by Album, Artist, Genre, or Year)
Top Tunes ( play the most played 10-250 tunes )
New Music (songs newer than 1day-1year)
Memory Lane (songs not played in the past 1day-1yr)
Sounds of
Forgotten Gems (old favorites not played in the past 1day-1yr)
Deja Vu (only tracks that were played in the last 1day-1yr)
Random Mix (anything, lasting 15mins-8hrs (or all))
Gapless and lossless(FLAC) playing are gravy.
(really good gravy.)
It doesn't allow you to rate the tracks, but number of times played kind is similar. If a tune that you would rank low begins, and you next track, the count isn't incremented. High personally ranked songs will most likely be played fully through, and thus have the highest playcount.
And that's why I'm replacing my toaster tomorrow. No matter what I put into it, amplification seems to only reproduce low frequencies. 60 Hz is crystal clear though!
That one flaw alone would be enough to drive me away from an iPod. Thanks for mentioning it!
/mourn Rio
And Apple's lossless format isn't even that common, outside of the Apple domain. Can anyone explain why they don't include support for a "common" encoding, like FLAC?
I listen to live bootlegs a ton, and trade them in lossless formats. The most widely accepted encoding for lossless trading is FLAC, with Shorten in second place.
I love my Rio Karma for that - it plays FLAC at compression lvl 8 (max) just fine and dandy. Never once have I heard any pauses due to buffering, even for VERY large FLAC files. Listening to two 130+ MB songs in a row without even a hiccup between songs (gapless! yay!) is really quite nice.
that makes sense. thanks, wjsteele!
With science instruments, the high-gain antenna, and other systems shut down, why would the thing use 10x more fuel than usual?
yup, you got it! The Square is the gray rectangle area to the south. The dark square builind in the center is Mao's mausoleaum.
scroll the map just a little bit to the East (or to the right, whatever.) Note the Sphynx!
And the little pool to the NNE of the pyramids, that's where I stayed on vacation last year. Seeing the pyramids on TV and in phots never overly impressed me. Waking up, and opening my hotel room door to see them right there... THAT was impressive!
You're just a fan of Marvel, aren't you?
(most of) The super-villians in Gotham aren't bio-augmented either; they're generally insane and disfigured. They are considered to be "super" because of the depths of crime they hope to succeed in. As a real example, I'd consider Hitler to be a super-villian, though he certainly had no special abilities (other than normal charisma.)
Bruce Wayne trained to fight and uses gadgets to assist. Thats' why I favor Batman over any other super heros; he's a normal (non-mutant) human. A "regular" hero is the guy who saves a baby from a burning building. A super-hero saves the world/city from burning, time and time again!!
My guess is that your definition is incorrect. One doesn't need super-powers in order to be a super hero/villian!
right... but read the same page where you clicked.
in bold:
Sorry about that, unzip the file into your azureus plugin directory, the wizard does not work on this file.
so, what I did, in Linux was:and then restarted Azureus. It is now in the "plugins" menu.
Is $150 for a lower end Athlon 64 really THAT EXPENSIVE?
No, of course most wouldn't try to overclock an IBM server or clustered 20 4-way xeons. Why? Most people DO NOT OWN THOSE. That's corporate equipment. People can afford to play with $150 chips at home, and will.
I did my resume up in LaTex a few years ago when I was a graduating Senior. I handed it out at the career fair, though I had no intentions of taking employment anywhere; gradschool was a'callin'.
The point here being, it did LOOK different, and in my opinion better, than most everyone else's resume. It caught interviewer's eyes immediately.
My homepage had four file types for them, as above, LaTeX, DVI, PS, and PDF. All print out the same exact way - always. For any corp. I thought would want to OCR the thing, I made a "scannable" version using a plain ascii text file. Different keywords, no formatting, etc.
So I disagree. The LOOK does in fact matter when dealing face to face with people. The file formats (PS and PDF) should be printable by 99.9999 percent of possible employers, and guarantee that the resume will always print the same. OCR? Feed the robot the text file.
The whole reason I did this was BECAUSE MS-Word was printing the thing differently on different systems. So surely your solution of "use their format" to save the style from changing was, to me, useless.
Plus, it was a kick-ass resume, content wise.
Subject says it all.
Wait, one of the partners is The MathWorks? Creators of MATLAB?!! I'm in!
was the one I didn't notice. =(
6 + 16 = ???
Note that it was never claimed that Longhorn will/does "just work." It was said that that is their design GOAL.
Unfortunately, many goals are unattainable. Like my goal of a future marriage to a supermodel/physicist/jazz musician.
FLAC is lossless, and comes in at about 60% the size of the original WAV file. It can always be decompressed and burned to CD, giving a duplicate of the original. So you get to keep that fidelity.
The Rio Karma plays FLAC files. With its 20 GB harddrive, that's ~60 of your CDs with you in a space of about 1/4th that of your CD player, not to mention the booklet needed to carry round those 60 CDs. Not bad for a player that's been around for a few years. Great audio output signal and power, 5-band parametric EQ, etc.
Maybe I should say it "played" FLAC. Looks like its no longer being made, and we await the Karma2/Chroma. Pretty cool device if you get one of the remaining ones, currently cost under $200.
Ok, don't listen to crap radio. Got it?
Seriously, check out "indie" radio... NPR. Its the one on your dial that doesn't play commercials, isn't owned by ClearChannel, etc etc
College radio stations work as well.
Recently, I've been listening to the Detroit NPR station, WDET. Here's the link to their stream selection: http://www.wdetfm.org/listenlive/
They play a nice range of music, and have a GREAT Jazz show on at 7pm EST.
Penn State.
On the I2. In bed with the RIAA. Ex-MPAA honcho Valenti was chummy with the prez (Spanier.)
Spanier and crew are probably trying to make this look like Penn State is the white-knight here... not to mention making the other PA universities (CMU and Pitt) look bad!!
where's this cave you apparently live in?
I'm (stuck) in a college town (@ Penn State,) its the only major town within a 45 min drive. ALL of the bands here are independant, and very few are metal, let alone any popular ones. That's been the case for years around here... blues, ska, regae, rock, funk... not metal or punk. Hell, even JAZZ bands are more popular (thank heavens)
Almost sounds like I'm plugging bands in this town... so I might as well! Check out his band of young-ins... only half of which are old enough to drink at the bars they play at. The Nightcrawlers - http://www.the-nightcrawlers.com/audio/african_ec
Sure there is: underneath the "regular" money. Where do you put checks and foodstamps??