actually, i didnt respond at all to the parents implication that music and albums are bad these days because of the packaging (wtf?) and its lack of intricacy..... re reading his post makes me wonder if his post was a joke anyways.
the real problem which is that album covers and cases have become cheap plastic "jewel boxes" rather than the more permanent cardboard with intricate artwork on it.
Actually, since the death of the CD longbox, albums have generally become something relegated to the past. It's no longer something that you buy to add to your collection, rather it is something that you consume and toss out when the latest fad washes away the fading memories of it.
"you"? who is "you"? is this what you feel is how "it" is designed to work these days or something? is this what "you" are doing? (although, of course, when things where better 'back then' you didnt, and neither did everyone else, because everyone was right and proper and knew what a music meant, and they felt it man, they really felt it!)
whatever.
yes there is a lot of trash out there, and yes it is all what the majority of the visible media portrays as music, but it is hardly the extent of music. yeah, you are right, the 14 year old who buys whatever is hot and all over mtv is probably going to simply consume it and be done with it pretty quickly. but there is still many many people who it all means much more to.
one thing i often thing about is how there certainly are the people who dont really care about the music or the creators and are simply 'consuming', and how there must be a rising number of them (my little 17year old brother included) who could care less if they download a poorly encoded 128kbps mp3 instead of buying an album. i can hardly blame them, i am sure there are only a few songs they actually like on the album anyways. i think maybe at some point some change will gradualy occure, where these crappy albums dont even get released, but rather just the hits that will make it to the charts. the problem is, i guess, that the stupid recod companies wouldnt be able to get away with chargin 15-20 dollars for a few hits. even though thats what it comes down to at this point anyways (if somonne buys an album for the songs they heard on the radio/tv and the rest ends up being filler). maybe it could lead rise to a stronger focus on 'single' releases (which have never really been a proper thing in NA) and maybe albums wont even be released
but i do tink its a little insulting the way youve written your first paragraph as if there is no decency left in music or albums
and also....most artists suck these days (Rush?... 'rush'?? wtf, a quick search shows they released their first album in '73 and havnt released anything for 7 years or so. they may suck (i dont know...) but if they are one of the groups that suck 'these days' then how old exactly are you? i suspected you were older due to your tone of longing and mourning for the lost 'faded' good old days, but you must be ancient.
you should have a little faith in the music listeners of today, we dont all listen to trash, and in any case, there has been bad music around for a long time. im sure you listened to some crap when you were younger, whenever that was
its also great as a utility. it handles cue sheets excellently and makes encoding lossy single-file-per-song files from a lossless single-cd-file about as easy as anything. it also takes care of directory structure and tagging very well.
its an amazing program. i hate having to use winamp. fb2k handles so many audio formats (download the 'special' installer. its probably one of the best piece of software ive ever known. it has lots of support for replaygain (i dont really use it much) and really everything else you could want. also very customizable in the way it looks (if you are into minimalism), but i tend to leave it fairly plain. see some formating strings:http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/strings.ph p?s=vote
yes, speex is awsome.
i agree with the fact that its nonsense that people commonly refer to ogg vorbis as simply 'ogg' where as there are many projects under the ogg umbrella: vorbis, flac, speex, theora; all of which can have ogg appended before them, but i can understand why 'ogg' has come to mean vorbis:
it is certainly the most talked about/matured project out of the bunch (well flac is probably just as mature, but flac joined onto the ogg project after it was 1.0, and btw i love flac, i archive all my cds to flacs with cue sheets after securly ripping with EAC and offset correction on a plex.)
it (by standard or not) almost allways has a.ogg extension. i suppose other ogg projects could share that extension, but none commonly do at this point.
everyone knows that this has always been 'damn small linux' except that article uses the linking text of "www.dslos.com" though it really goes to "www.damnsmalllinux.org".
dslos.com is a working url, which is the same as the normal site except it says 'demi sized linux' in the title bar and elsewhere instead of 'damn small linux'.
i thought maybe this 'demi sized' version of the name has been the clean version for a while, but a google search brings up nothing.
i guess its not that bad but does this suggest that MS wanted the os to present itself in a 'cleaner' fashion, without the word "damn"?
also why does the article point to the damn small version rather the the demi sized. maybe they just recently set up the domain or something and the dns hadnt fully moved over at time of publishing? although a whois on dslos.com shows it was registered on nov 4.
(although note on that the whois.sc info on the site it shows 'desktop sized linux' as the title bar... i guess they arnt even sure what they want the clean version to be. wierd.)
mod parent up. i know they dont own an ipod. the grandparent sounds like a terrible person who bought an ipod to be cool. im sure they carry it around awkwardly so people can see it. i hope they get mugged.
thanks! ill check it out,
i see some familiar names in the episode guides.
theres also binrev radio (http://www.binrev.com/radio/)
by some people that were often on rfa, but i cant really get into that one, i find it boring, i havnt listened to any of the recent episodes, they try and just be mostly hacking and not the other stuff (politics, etc)....but i find it a little bland...
radio freek america, hacking/phreaking/politics recorded in bedrooms with a few people on a 3way call. lots of calls to interesting numbers. i think it is very entertaining. you may not. there was a hundred or so episodes, its no longer going on. anyone else listened to this? http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/radio.html
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hm fuck sorry i mean that is only going to work for ntsc, nothing really to do with the gp's post
at some point it has to stop being analog, so DSP is needed.
(company's site)
actually, i didnt respond at all to the parents implication that music and albums are bad these days because of the packaging (wtf?) and its lack of intricacy..... re reading his post makes me wonder if his post was a joke anyways.
the real problem which is that album covers and cases have become cheap plastic "jewel boxes" rather than the more permanent cardboard with intricate artwork on it.
umm..okay..
Actually, since the death of the CD longbox, albums have generally become something relegated to the past. It's no longer something that you buy to add to your collection, rather it is something that you consume and toss out when the latest fad washes away the fading memories of it.
"you"? who is "you"? is this what you feel is how "it" is designed to work these days or something? is this what "you" are doing? (although, of course, when things where better 'back then' you didnt, and neither did everyone else, because everyone was right and proper and knew what a music meant, and they felt it man, they really felt it!)
whatever.
yes there is a lot of trash out there, and yes it is all what the majority of the visible media portrays as music, but it is hardly the extent of music. yeah, you are right, the 14 year old who buys whatever is hot and all over mtv is probably going to simply consume it and be done with it pretty quickly. but there is still many many people who it all means much more to.
one thing i often thing about is how there certainly are the people who dont really care about the music or the creators and are simply 'consuming', and how there must be a rising number of them (my little 17year old brother included) who could care less if they download a poorly encoded 128kbps mp3 instead of buying an album. i can hardly blame them, i am sure there are only a few songs they actually like on the album anyways. i think maybe at some point some change will gradualy occure, where these crappy albums dont even get released, but rather just the hits that will make it to the charts. the problem is, i guess, that the stupid recod companies wouldnt be able to get away with chargin 15-20 dollars for a few hits. even though thats what it comes down to at this point anyways (if somonne buys an album for the songs they heard on the radio/tv and the rest ends up being filler). maybe it could lead rise to a stronger focus on 'single' releases (which have never really been a proper thing in NA) and maybe albums wont even be released
but i do tink its a little insulting the way youve written your first paragraph as if there is no decency left in music or albums
and also....most artists suck these days (Rush? ... 'rush'?? wtf, a quick search shows they released their first album in '73 and havnt released anything for 7 years or so. they may suck (i dont know...) but if they are one of the groups that suck 'these days' then how old exactly are you? i suspected you were older due to your tone of longing and mourning for the lost 'faded' good old days, but you must be ancient.
you should have a little faith in the music listeners of today, we dont all listen to trash, and in any case, there has been bad music around for a long time. im sure you listened to some crap when you were younger, whenever that was
how has this been modded troll?
are all you mods absolutly positive that he is making this up?
damn you
yes, another vote for fb2k.
h p?s=vote
its also great as a utility. it handles cue sheets excellently and makes encoding lossy single-file-per-song files from a lossless single-cd-file about as easy as anything. it also takes care of directory structure and tagging very well.
its an amazing program. i hate having to use winamp. fb2k handles so many audio formats (download the 'special' installer. its probably one of the best piece of software ive ever known. it has lots of support for replaygain (i dont really use it much) and really everything else you could want. also very customizable in the way it looks (if you are into minimalism), but i tend to leave it fairly plain. see some formating strings:http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/strings.p
i agree with the fact that its nonsense that people commonly refer to ogg vorbis as simply 'ogg' where as there are many projects under the ogg umbrella: vorbis, flac, speex, theora; all of which can have ogg appended before them, but i can understand why 'ogg' has come to mean vorbis:
everyone knows that this has always been 'damn small linux' except that article uses the linking text of "www.dslos.com" though it really goes to "www.damnsmalllinux.org". dslos.com is a working url, which is the same as the normal site except it says 'demi sized linux' in the title bar and elsewhere instead of 'damn small linux'.
i thought maybe this 'demi sized' version of the name has been the clean version for a while, but a google search brings up nothing.
i guess its not that bad but does this suggest that MS wanted the os to present itself in a 'cleaner' fashion, without the word "damn"?
also why does the article point to the damn small version rather the the demi sized. maybe they just recently set up the domain or something and the dns hadnt fully moved over at time of publishing? although a whois on dslos.com shows it was registered on nov 4.
(although note on that the whois.sc info on the site it shows 'desktop sized linux' as the title bar... i guess they arnt even sure what they want the clean version to be. wierd.)
i mean that 'i know the they dont own an ipod but...'
mod parent up.
i know they dont own an ipod.
the grandparent sounds like a terrible person who bought an ipod to be cool.
im sure they carry it around awkwardly so people can see it.
i hope they get mugged.
thanks! ill check it out, i see some familiar names in the episode guides. theres also binrev radio (http://www.binrev.com/radio/) by some people that were often on rfa, but i cant really get into that one, i find it boring, i havnt listened to any of the recent episodes, they try and just be mostly hacking and not the other stuff (politics, etc)....but i find it a little bland...
radio freek america,
hacking/phreaking/politics
recorded in bedrooms with a few people on a 3way call. lots of calls to interesting numbers. i think it is very entertaining. you may not.
there was a hundred or so episodes, its no longer going on.
anyone else listened to this?
http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/radio.html