Export them as individual WAV files. Export wet versions if the effects plugins used are vital, or export dry versions to give more flexibility to the remixer. Or some combination of both.
I can't believe that no one cares about gapless playback. Is the Rio Karma still the only player that can do gapless, or have others finally added support? I keep wanting to get a hard drive-based MP3 player, but not without gapless (and the stories of the Karma's reliability have scared me away from it.)
And with its full 35mm CMOS it is the first camera to effectively reproduce the image quality of 35mm film.
Don't most of the pro-level DSLRs already have 35mm sensors? Maybe they're trying to say it's the resolution that gets it to 35mm film, but it sounds like they're implying it's the sensor size...
It would be nice if people could comprehend that just because you can write code and support enterprise networks doesn't mean you know every obscure thing in the world.
The funniest bit is all the people that you do wind up helping. At least with me, they always ask me stuff I have no idea about. "How do I do this in Excel?" or "why does it keep doing that?" So I click around for a bit and fix it for them, and they assume it's something that all geeks learned how to do in geek school. Like, day 41 of geek school is how to change the header options in Word. But really, they're just too scared to go clicking on new and weird menus that they've never clicked on before, so they don't even try.
I have to wonder about the prices of cheap networked computers with 40x+ CD burners. For $1000, you could easily have 10 such machines networked and be able to pump out 10 CDs in about 5 minutes. This obviously isn't a solution for moderate to large shows, but for smaller bands it might make a lot of sense.
You're a bit late. There are so many bands that offer CDs of that night's show for sale right after the show these days, I don't think you'd be able to develop a competing product at this point.
And then there's Clear Channel, which prevents at least some of those bands from selling those, because they're trying to get their own version going. Umphrey's McGee, a kick-ass upcoming band, wasn't allowed to sell copies of some of their February shows after they happened because they were playing in a Clear Channel venue.
128 meg can also store almost 2-1/2 hours of 128kbps/44kHz mp3. Odds are, especially coming off the board, most concert goers won't be able to hear the difference.
That's still not going to be enough for a full show, though. Unless the bands they're targetting this at just play short shows...
The second option is Live Phish. You can download shows roughly 24 hours after they've performed. Both MP3 and FLAC available (though FLAC is a bit more expensive, due to bandwidth). Each show is recorded directly from the soundboard mix, also comes with a setlist and cover to print off.
And, the band is donating all of their profits from the sale of the shows to charity.
Oddly enough, Metallica, the former poster child of the anti-Napster crowd, has a system like that: www.livemetallica.com.
That's not odd. Metallica has always allowed people to tape their shows and freely trade the recordings, even during the height of their anti-Napster battles.
None of the bands that let you freely tape concerts will let you freely trade their commercial studio recordings; Metallica just happened to be more vocal about it than most.
The real issue is how its a year and a half since 3.0r1 came out and yet they are only about to realease 3.0r2. In a year in a half most distros would have upgraded installers, new gui admin tools, the latest packages, and major bumps in all of their software. Is 3.0r2 going with kernel 2.2 still? And worst of all 3.0r2 STILL won't have auto hardware detection.
That's fine with me. If I'm using it on my servers, I'd much rather have an update every 18 months than every 3 months. Does anyone really use the GUI admin tools? If it's a server, I don't install X on it at all. I can't think of any packages I'd be using where I'm missing out on features I need by using older versions.
So, Debian stable all the way for me...
I've had a credit card used fraudulently before, but it was only for something like $49. Someone (I think it was in Sweden) set up a free e-mail address somewhere with my name, and bought some $49 piece of software where they probably e-mailed the serial number to him, and never used the credit card number again.
Easy to clear up. I'm surprised that they count credit card fraud like that as identity theft, but they do.
Now I have someone who used my name and SSN to set up cell phone service, which I found out about when I got a letter saying I owed $500 to a phone company I've never used. So this makes my second run-in with identity theft.
Still waiting on my credit reports to see if there are any other surprises yet...
Most people aren't playing the FLAC files directly, they're burning audio CDs of them to play in their CD players. If someone's going to be burning audio CDs, obviously it's better to burn them from a lossless source than from MP3s or OGG files.
A lot of people spend a lot of time mastering and remastering audio to sound its best, and a lot of that work is just thrown out the window with an mp3.
Have you listened to a lot of recent CDs? The record labels (at least, for pop/rock artists) are obsessed with squashing every last bit of dynamic range out of everything in the mastering stage, and clipping the waveform all over the place. It's nasty, nasty stuff.
This should probably be in the -Govt column instead/as well. It means you're working with idiots (Speaking from experience here). For example, the guy with a PhD in Spanish working tech support who could not plug in a computer.
This is easily one of the most enticing reasons to leave my federal government job, actually. There are so many completely clueless and dangerous IT people around here that it can be tough to get things done right. Lots of people who think they know what they're doing, but really don't, and routinely break everything. And then there's the (also clueless) IT guy who was abusing his government credit card for personal computer items, but even that wasn't enough to get him fired. He's still breaking things, just in another agency.
And, yeah, I could be making a lot more in the private sector also, of course. On the other hand, as mentioned before, it's very stable. The workload varies from very light to moderate. We don't have the huge budgets that everyone else seems to be talking about (e.g., CD burners in 1992) but we have enough to fly us to interesting conferences about once a year. My hours are incredibly flexible (some days 8-4:30, some days noon to 8:30) but I work no more than 40 hours a week. I have a cell phone that they call me on regularly outside of work hours, but I hardly ever wind up having to come in to fix something (ahh, the power of VNC and SSH.) Oh, and lots of spare bandwidth sitting there unused after hours.
My quasi-automatic yearly pay increases are probably almost over, and the bullshit paperwork is getting worse, which is getting me more interested in the private sector, but who knows. I'm also probably done with living in D.C., and that's probably what'll push me over to the Other Side.
Umm, I seem to be just rambling now. Sorry. I think the lack of cluefull people here have caused my brain to atrophy slightly, too.
Not only that, but there is an official Grateful Dead bootleg MP3 FTP site, which I tripped over a while back while looking for something else entirely. All free downloads from a decent server. (Sorry, I'm not a Deadhead so didn't bookmark it, but it should come up readily enough in a search.)
There isn't any official Grateful Dead MP3 FTP site, but there are many unofficial fan-run ones (and technically, they're not "bootlegs" since the recordings were all made with the band's permission). There are probably even more sites for losslessly compressed music, since audience recordings tend to MP3 very poorly. There's even an impressive, custom P2P client that's strictly for use with bands that allow trading of live recordings, and offers MP3s and losslessly compressed music (FurtherNet)
You'd be surprised at how many smaller bands actively encourage people to tape their shows, and not just the highly improvisational "jam" bands; many bands whose shows don't change all that much from night to night encourage it as well.
You see, I'm a fan of trading videos with like-minded folks over the net. Right now, the defacto format for online video trading is DiVX. It's biggest competition is VCD-Mpeg, a much less efficient format. Why is it even around? Because many people like to burn their traded files to CD and watch them on their living room DVD player. They're prepared to take the hit in quality and efficiency for that advantage.
Well, actually, the biggest competition to DiVX is SVCD, which has higher quality than DiVX. I pretty much only download SVCD movies so I can watch them on my DVD player, and so I get larger files (average 2 CDs/movie) but much better video quality. Audio is good, but doesn't have the AC3 support that DiVX does now.
As someone who is ordinarily a Linux zealot and hater of all things Microsoft, I want to state for the record that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 Professional fuckin' rocks!
Me too on both of those. I installed it yesterday and was up too late playing it. One weird bit: I was third in line for take-off, but there was a constant stream of planes landing, and air traffic control never cleared any planes for take-off. I had to cut to the front of the line, which let me request a takeoff, and then they let me. Traffic control still told the incoming plane to go ahead and land on my runway right after that, but told him to go back into the traffic pattern when he got too close and I was still on the ground.
You work in a federal building, in a very federally-present city. These are times of war, and you are working in a highly sensitive building.
For contrast, in the federal government building where I work, two blocks from the White House, I've never ever had my bag searched. If I forget my badge, I'll need to go through a metal detector and my bag will be x-rayed, but it's never been opened. If I have my badge, I just walk in after they glance at it.
After September 11, they did close off all but two entrances for added security. Unfortunately, the security at the open entrances wasn't any different than it normally was, so the only effect was that it took longer to get in and out of the building since the convenient entrances were closed.
I'm still hoping they're going to eventually say they checked key places in the building (mail room, ventilation system, etc.) for anthrax spores, but they've been completely silent about that so far.
I think that you're right. I believe the scripting on the DVD disc asks the player which region it is, and then compares the response to what it thinks it is.
Right. Since RCE discs have been around for a while, there are lots of DVD players that let you pick the region you want it to be at the moment (through an on-screen menu if you're lucky.) For others that are firmware flashable from a CD-R, you can just flash the player back to R1 to play an RCE disc, and then flash it to R0 to play other discs.
I burned a copy of the Christmas Special a week ago, and have only watched the intro and first scene (Chewbacca's family grunting at each other), but it's absolutely hilarious so far. The quality leaves much to be desired, since it's based on a 1978 videotape, but still, hilarious.
George Lucas has been quoted as saying he'd destroy every copy of that show if he could, though. He didn't have much to do with the making of it, and he hated it. I don't think there's any chance of an official release.
I work in a federal building essentially next to the White House, and today was simply unreal. By the time I got into work, the first 3 crashes had already taken place, but there was still confusion about exactly what had happened. Both towers were still standing, but the first thing I heard from a coworker was that the WTC had been bombed, and that they were in ruins. It's hard to describe the effect that news like that has on you. She then said there was a fire or bomb or something (no one knew yet) at the Pentagon.
I stopped into an office with a TV and watched about 15 seconds of CNN, which was showing smoke with what looked like the Old Executive Office Building in front, which scared us all even more, since that's even closer to us.
The next thing I knew, there were people running in the halls saying that the building was supposed to be evacuated. I hadn't even made it to my desk yet, but just turned around and walked back to the Metro. The streets were surreal, some people were obviously trying to get out of there (but everyone was relatively calm), while others (mostly tourists) were just standing around. There was an almost-constant stream of police cars, black secret service SUVs, and so on, going back and forth on Pennsylvania Ave, so I was hearing sirens for my whole 10 minute walk to the Metro. It didn't feel real, but it sure seemed to be.
I also kept trying to bring up cnn.com on my phone as I walked, but got nowhere. I also tried calling other coworkers in the building to make sure they'd heard of the evacuation, but again, the cells were jammed with the call volume. I did get cnn.com up just before I got to the Metro, but could only see the breaking story of something going on at the state department, and then they were unreachable again.
The worst part was that I still didn't really know any details and had heard lots of rumors. Eventually I was able to bring up cnn.com half the time as I rode and get the basic story, and then one-line "breaking" items that just kept piling up:
Fire at the State Department
One of the WTC towers had collapsed
Car bomb at the State Department
Plane circling the White House
Second WTC tower collapsed
UN evacuated
Some of those turned out to be false (though even now I keep hearing that there were incidents at the State Dept and the Capital Building, but no details), but the sense of dread at just seeing one horrifying one-liner after another was really scary.
By that point I'd gotten back to my apartment and stared at the TV for the next 5 or 6 hours. The worst part was the the lack of information downtown, and the complete sense of fear, uncertainty, and panic, and that everything had suddenly changed.
Notice how microsoft's products are all verbs? Internet Explorer, Access,excel, etc.
Besides the products others have pointed out that aren't verbs (Word, Windows, FrontPage, etc.), Explorer is a noun, not a verb ("I'm going to explorer this web page"? Well, ok, maybe some people talk like that, but that doesn't verb the word (unlike the way I just used "verb")).
That leaves Access and Excel, and of those, "access" is only sometimes a verb, and sometimes a noun.
What were we talking about, again? Oh yeah, marketing. Marketing is good. My favorites are the Microsoft ads that talk about how well Microsoft products work with other company's products, which means your company can merge with someone else so much easier.
And so that I'm only slightly less off-topic, yes, MHz doesn't matter that much, but I have a feeling that lots of people are going to be turned off by this. They'll be looking for a processor, see the "AMD 1600", and say, "oh yeah, that's the one that's really 1400 Mhz but AMD doesn't want to publicize that." That can't be good for the customer's opinion of the product. On the other hand, the customers are mostly geeks and large computer companies, so who knows.
Why aren't more people starting to use lossless compression instead? My guess is that lossless is going to get a boost from this...
I know this has only been covered 5 or 6 times in the previous comments (and that's only the ones that have been moderated up), so here are a few more repetitions:
APPLE COMPUTER engages in a similar type of deception.
GUY KAWASAKI has an email list, to which I subscribe, where he'll tell people, for example, to
write to complain to a small compnay for coming out with a product with no Macintosh support.
Hundreds write--most if not all of them would have never even known about the product if it
weren't for this call to arms.
First, I didn't think Guy still worked for Apple, and that his mailing list was in no way related to Apple. I may be wrong, but I didn't think there was anything remotely official about it.
Second, how is that remotely similar to making up fictitious reviewers and quotes?
How did they get credit for someone else's work ??? I've seen this demo before...
Are you serious? I'd almost guess I'm being trolled (in the classic Kibological sense, not in the flamebait sense...) but I'm worried that you might be serious, so...
You've seen the java graph applet before; that's been around forever. They're just using that applet to show some of the results from their research. The research is what they're getting credit for.
But, NT has to be SHUT DOWN (when
installed on an NTFS part) to get the SAM file to feed it into L0phtcrack. That's where physical security comes in. And, since NT can't protect the passwords when it's shut
down, since SP3 there's a utility called SYSKEY which encrypts the SAM when NT is shut
down. L0phtCrack can't touch the hashes then.
Are you sure about that? pwdump2's readme file disagrees with you:
This is an application which dumps the password hashes (OWFs) from NT's SAM database, whether or not SYSKEY is enabled on the system.
And you don't have to shut down NT to do any of that. I'd be worried about anyone forced to administer NT who doesn't have pwdump2 or 3 and L0phtcrack handy...
For the curious, the details on how pwdump does its magic:
It uses a technique known as DLL injection. In general, one process (pwdump2.exe) forces another process
(lsass.exe) to load a DLL (samdump.dll) and execute some code from the DLL in the other process's
(lsass.exe's) address space and user context. In this specific case, once samdump.dll is loaded into lsass, it
uses the same internal API that msv1_0.dll uses to access the password hashes. This means it can get the
hashes without doing any of the 'hard' work of pulling them out of the registry and decrypting them. The
program neither knows nor cares what the encryption algorithms or keys are.
And, of course, for anyone who's not familiar with it, pwdump2 is GPL'ed...
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Export them as individual WAV files. Export wet versions if the effects plugins used are vital, or export dry versions to give more flexibility to the remixer. Or some combination of both.
I can't believe that no one cares about gapless playback. Is the Rio Karma still the only player that can do gapless, or have others finally added support? I keep wanting to get a hard drive-based MP3 player, but not without gapless (and the stories of the Karma's reliability have scared me away from it.)
Don't most of the pro-level DSLRs already have 35mm sensors? Maybe they're trying to say it's the resolution that gets it to 35mm film, but it sounds like they're implying it's the sensor size...
The funniest bit is all the people that you do wind up helping. At least with me, they always ask me stuff I have no idea about. "How do I do this in Excel?" or "why does it keep doing that?" So I click around for a bit and fix it for them, and they assume it's something that all geeks learned how to do in geek school. Like, day 41 of geek school is how to change the header options in Word. But really, they're just too scared to go clicking on new and weird menus that they've never clicked on before, so they don't even try.
You're a bit late. There are so many bands that offer CDs of that night's show for sale right after the show these days, I don't think you'd be able to develop a competing product at this point.
And then there's Clear Channel, which prevents at least some of those bands from selling those, because they're trying to get their own version going. Umphrey's McGee, a kick-ass upcoming band, wasn't allowed to sell copies of some of their February shows after they happened because they were playing in a Clear Channel venue.
That's still not going to be enough for a full show, though. Unless the bands they're targetting this at just play short shows...
And, the band is donating all of their profits from the sale of the shows to charity.
That's not odd. Metallica has always allowed people to tape their shows and freely trade the recordings, even during the height of their anti-Napster battles. None of the bands that let you freely tape concerts will let you freely trade their commercial studio recordings; Metallica just happened to be more vocal about it than most.
I've had a credit card used fraudulently before, but it was only for something like $49. Someone (I think it was in Sweden) set up a free e-mail address somewhere with my name, and bought some $49 piece of software where they probably e-mailed the serial number to him, and never used the credit card number again. Easy to clear up. I'm surprised that they count credit card fraud like that as identity theft, but they do. Now I have someone who used my name and SSN to set up cell phone service, which I found out about when I got a letter saying I owed $500 to a phone company I've never used. So this makes my second run-in with identity theft. Still waiting on my credit reports to see if there are any other surprises yet...
Most people aren't playing the FLAC files directly, they're burning audio CDs of them to play in their CD players. If someone's going to be burning audio CDs, obviously it's better to burn them from a lossless source than from MP3s or OGG files.
This is easily one of the most enticing reasons to leave my federal government job, actually. There are so many completely clueless and dangerous IT people around here that it can be tough to get things done right. Lots of people who think they know what they're doing, but really don't, and routinely break everything. And then there's the (also clueless) IT guy who was abusing his government credit card for personal computer items, but even that wasn't enough to get him fired. He's still breaking things, just in another agency.
And, yeah, I could be making a lot more in the private sector also, of course. On the other hand, as mentioned before, it's very stable. The workload varies from very light to moderate. We don't have the huge budgets that everyone else seems to be talking about (e.g., CD burners in 1992) but we have enough to fly us to interesting conferences about once a year. My hours are incredibly flexible (some days 8-4:30, some days noon to 8:30) but I work no more than 40 hours a week. I have a cell phone that they call me on regularly outside of work hours, but I hardly ever wind up having to come in to fix something (ahh, the power of VNC and SSH.) Oh, and lots of spare bandwidth sitting there unused after hours.
My quasi-automatic yearly pay increases are probably almost over, and the bullshit paperwork is getting worse, which is getting me more interested in the private sector, but who knows. I'm also probably done with living in D.C., and that's probably what'll push me over to the Other Side.
Umm, I seem to be just rambling now. Sorry. I think the lack of cluefull people here have caused my brain to atrophy slightly, too.
There isn't any official Grateful Dead MP3 FTP site, but there are many unofficial fan-run ones (and technically, they're not "bootlegs" since the recordings were all made with the band's permission). There are probably even more sites for losslessly compressed music, since audience recordings tend to MP3 very poorly. There's even an impressive, custom P2P client that's strictly for use with bands that allow trading of live recordings, and offers MP3s and losslessly compressed music (FurtherNet)
You'd be surprised at how many smaller bands actively encourage people to tape their shows, and not just the highly improvisational "jam" bands; many bands whose shows don't change all that much from night to night encourage it as well.
Well, actually, the biggest competition to DiVX is SVCD, which has higher quality than DiVX. I pretty much only download SVCD movies so I can watch them on my DVD player, and so I get larger files (average 2 CDs/movie) but much better video quality. Audio is good, but doesn't have the AC3 support that DiVX does now.
Me too on both of those. I installed it yesterday and was up too late playing it. One weird bit: I was third in line for take-off, but there was a constant stream of planes landing, and air traffic control never cleared any planes for take-off. I had to cut to the front of the line, which let me request a takeoff, and then they let me. Traffic control still told the incoming plane to go ahead and land on my runway right after that, but told him to go back into the traffic pattern when he got too close and I was still on the ground.
I liked the Max Payne demo, too.
For contrast, in the federal government building where I work, two blocks from the White House, I've never ever had my bag searched. If I forget my badge, I'll need to go through a metal detector and my bag will be x-rayed, but it's never been opened. If I have my badge, I just walk in after they glance at it.
After September 11, they did close off all but two entrances for added security. Unfortunately, the security at the open entrances wasn't any different than it normally was, so the only effect was that it took longer to get in and out of the building since the convenient entrances were closed.
I'm still hoping they're going to eventually say they checked key places in the building (mail room, ventilation system, etc.) for anthrax spores, but they've been completely silent about that so far.
Gumbo
Right. Since RCE discs have been around for a while, there are lots of DVD players that let you pick the region you want it to be at the moment (through an on-screen menu if you're lucky.) For others that are firmware flashable from a CD-R, you can just flash the player back to R1 to play an RCE disc, and then flash it to R0 to play other discs.
George Lucas has been quoted as saying he'd destroy every copy of that show if he could, though. He didn't have much to do with the making of it, and he hated it. I don't think there's any chance of an official release.
Gumbo
I work in a federal building essentially next to the White House, and today was simply unreal. By the time I got into work, the first 3 crashes had already taken place, but there was still confusion about exactly what had happened. Both towers were still standing, but the first thing I heard from a coworker was that the WTC had been bombed, and that they were in ruins. It's hard to describe the effect that news like that has on you. She then said there was a fire or bomb or something (no one knew yet) at the Pentagon.
I stopped into an office with a TV and watched about 15 seconds of CNN, which was showing smoke with what looked like the Old Executive Office Building in front, which scared us all even more, since that's even closer to us.
The next thing I knew, there were people running in the halls saying that the building was supposed to be evacuated. I hadn't even made it to my desk yet, but just turned around and walked back to the Metro. The streets were surreal, some people were obviously trying to get out of there (but everyone was relatively calm), while others (mostly tourists) were just standing around. There was an almost-constant stream of police cars, black secret service SUVs, and so on, going back and forth on Pennsylvania Ave, so I was hearing sirens for my whole 10 minute walk to the Metro. It didn't feel real, but it sure seemed to be.
I also kept trying to bring up cnn.com on my phone as I walked, but got nowhere. I also tried calling other coworkers in the building to make sure they'd heard of the evacuation, but again, the cells were jammed with the call volume. I did get cnn.com up just before I got to the Metro, but could only see the breaking story of something going on at the state department, and then they were unreachable again.
The worst part was that I still didn't really know any details and had heard lots of rumors. Eventually I was able to bring up cnn.com half the time as I rode and get the basic story, and then one-line "breaking" items that just kept piling up:
Some of those turned out to be false (though even now I keep hearing that there were incidents at the State Dept and the Capital Building, but no details), but the sense of dread at just seeing one horrifying one-liner after another was really scary.
By that point I'd gotten back to my apartment and stared at the TV for the next 5 or 6 hours. The worst part was the the lack of information downtown, and the complete sense of fear, uncertainty, and panic, and that everything had suddenly changed.
Besides the products others have pointed out that aren't verbs (Word, Windows, FrontPage, etc.), Explorer is a noun, not a verb ("I'm going to explorer this web page"? Well, ok, maybe some people talk like that, but that doesn't verb the word (unlike the way I just used "verb")).
That leaves Access and Excel, and of those, "access" is only sometimes a verb, and sometimes a noun.
What were we talking about, again? Oh yeah, marketing. Marketing is good. My favorites are the Microsoft ads that talk about how well Microsoft products work with other company's products, which means your company can merge with someone else so much easier.
And so that I'm only slightly less off-topic, yes, MHz doesn't matter that much, but I have a feeling that lots of people are going to be turned off by this. They'll be looking for a processor, see the "AMD 1600", and say, "oh yeah, that's the one that's really 1400 Mhz but AMD doesn't want to publicize that." That can't be good for the customer's opinion of the product. On the other hand, the customers are mostly geeks and large computer companies, so who knows.
Gumbo, rambling.
I know this has only been covered 5 or 6 times in the previous comments (and that's only the ones that have been moderated up), so here are a few more repetitions:
It's the DAE step, not the encoding step.
It's the DAE step, not the encoding step.
It's the DAE step, not the encoding step.
furrfu...
First, I didn't think Guy still worked for Apple, and that his mailing list was in no way related to Apple. I may be wrong, but I didn't think there was anything remotely official about it.
Second, how is that remotely similar to making up fictitious reviewers and quotes?
Are you serious? I'd almost guess I'm being trolled (in the classic Kibological sense, not in the flamebait sense...) but I'm worried that you might be serious, so...
You've seen the java graph applet before; that's been around forever. They're just using that applet to show some of the results from their research. The research is what they're getting credit for.
Gum "IHBT. IHL. HAND." bo
Are you sure about that? pwdump2's readme file disagrees with you:
And you don't have to shut down NT to do any of that. I'd be worried about anyone forced to administer NT who doesn't have pwdump2 or 3 and L0phtcrack handy...
For the curious, the details on how pwdump does its magic:
And, of course, for anyone who's not familiar with it, pwdump2 is GPL'ed...
Gum "All your SAM are belong to pwdump" bo