From the article: "Luke Bradley Jones, chief of the BBC Worldwide’s digital operations in the US, said in a statement: “Millions of people love Torchwood and would probably pay ten bucks an episode rather than two bucks”.
Or they'll laugh all their way to usenet or bittorrent. $10 per episode?!
Actually, what I said was "these days," not "for ages."
I could have, perhaps, been a little more specific and said "on the 5G, 5.5G, and 2G Nano with the September 2006 Apple 1.2 firmware update and on the 4G Greyscale, 4G Photo/Color and 1G Nano with Rockbox," but that's a little pedantic, even for Slashdot.
if Rockbox ever gets ported to it. The screen is nice, and the player itself has a nice, clean layout. But at the moment, Zune doesn't have gapless playback. Even the fracking iPod has that these days!
The Christian Science Monitor is actually well-respected newspaper, regardless of the word "Christian Science" in the title. Don't confuse it with Pat Robertson's CBN.
The hard drive on our DVR started getting too fragmented, so we were having glitches on playback, lots of blocky pixelization and audio drop-outs. The solution, according to user forums, was to reformat the hard drive. We had about 14 hours of programming left on the DVR, so I just used the "Copy to VCR" option and backed it up. Conceivably, if I had a DVD recorder, I could have done the same thing, but putting the VHS machine in SLP mode is far less hassle than burning a disc, waiting for it to finalize, etc.
"continuous transcoding of MP3 to AAC"?
iPods, like all digital audio players, decompress their supported formats into PCM streams, which are fed to the digital-to-analog converter. Why on earth would they convert from one lossy format to another on the fly if they're going to just play back a raw audio stream anyway?
Except that iPods are NOT filesystem devices in the sense of browsing a file tree. If you didn't have it set to sync manually, you had it set to mirror your iTunes library. When you deleted your iTunes library, your iPod mirrored your blank iTunes directory.
On the other hand, if you have an iPod that's set to sync automatically, and you decide to switch it to manual sync, iTunes will then say "ok, wiseguy, do it yourself" and delete all the music on your iPod so you can in fact do it yourself. That's annoying. But not "broken."
That makes it sound like every single video in the iTunes Store has been upconverted and marketed as "newer better faster more," instead of a couple of screenshots on Engadget's website indicating that a couple of videos *might* have been done poorly encoded. That does not in and of itself prove the existence of a scam.
Actually iPods can already downsample from higher-res videos. I play widescreen 640x360 MPEG4 videos I've encoded myself on it all the time with no issues.
6 speakers, probably not, but Quadraphonic records were all the rage for a brief time in the 1970's... rumor is that Dolby Surround receivers can decode them, too.
So you compared it against the CD of "Yesterday" from "Help!" that George Martin digitally remixed after he was already starting to go deaf (and added digital reverb to make it sound "better" to his failing ears)? No wonder the vinyl sounded better.
Try listening to some Dr. Ebbetts CD remasters made FROM vinyl and see if you can ABX them -- I sincerely doubt you could.
2. This is a problem with Rockbox, not the MP3 format
Wrong, it's the MP3 specification that's the problem. Using --nogaptags --nogap when encoding using LAME gives true gapless playback in Rockbox (and any other true gapless capable player, such as foobar 2000.)
* MP3 does not correctly handle gapless playback by design
True, but Rockbox's wiki has directions on how to do true gapless encoding using LAME.
* Applying Replaygain to MP3s sets the information into APEv2, which Rockbox currently doesn't understand
Wrong. I use foobar2k to scan my MP3's in albumgain mode and replaygain on Rockbox WORKS.
MP3Gain (which doesn't need replaygain running to reduce the volume, because it actually changes the volume of the MP3 itself, rather than putting in a tag that reads "reduce by -10dB") does save the undo data in APEv2 tags, but that doesn't make them incompatible with Rockbox.
You still must not have RTFM if you were having hiccups on a 5G iPod. If you are using a skin with a VU meter, you'll have hiccups. If you don't, you won't. I have a 60GB iPod and NEVER have any problems with VBR MP3 files. The only time I've ever had it skip was using a high-bitrate OGG file with Crossfeed (not Crossfade) turned on.
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From the article: "Luke Bradley Jones, chief of the BBC Worldwide’s digital operations in the US, said in a statement: “Millions of people love Torchwood and would probably pay ten bucks an episode rather than two bucks”. Or they'll laugh all their way to usenet or bittorrent. $10 per episode?!
Last Tuesday. I got it off of emusic.com. And it was DRM-free LAME MP3, too. $14.99 for 50 downloads meant that it cost me just under $5.
The vast majority of podcasts are in MP3 format. Very few are in AAC. I listen to plenty of them on my iRiver and Sandisk players.
Actually, what I said was "these days," not "for ages."
I could have, perhaps, been a little more specific and said "on the 5G, 5.5G, and 2G Nano with the September 2006 Apple 1.2 firmware update and on the 4G Greyscale, 4G Photo/Color and 1G Nano with Rockbox," but that's a little pedantic, even for Slashdot.
if Rockbox ever gets ported to it. The screen is nice, and the player itself has a nice, clean layout. But at the moment, Zune doesn't have gapless playback. Even the fracking iPod has that these days!
The Christian Science Monitor is actually well-respected newspaper, regardless of the word "Christian Science" in the title. Don't confuse it with Pat Robertson's CBN.
The hard drive on our DVR started getting too fragmented, so we were having glitches on playback, lots of blocky pixelization and audio drop-outs. The solution, according to user forums, was to reformat the hard drive. We had about 14 hours of programming left on the DVR, so I just used the "Copy to VCR" option and backed it up. Conceivably, if I had a DVD recorder, I could have done the same thing, but putting the VHS machine in SLP mode is far less hassle than burning a disc, waiting for it to finalize, etc.
Actually, dang ferners did come here and observe our elections in 2004:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1187060/
"continuous transcoding of MP3 to AAC"? iPods, like all digital audio players, decompress their supported formats into PCM streams, which are fed to the digital-to-analog converter. Why on earth would they convert from one lossy format to another on the fly if they're going to just play back a raw audio stream anyway?
On the other hand, if you have an iPod that's set to sync automatically, and you decide to switch it to manual sync, iTunes will then say "ok, wiseguy, do it yourself" and delete all the music on your iPod so you can in fact do it yourself. That's annoying. But not "broken."
That makes it sound like every single video in the iTunes Store has been upconverted and marketed as "newer better faster more," instead of a couple of screenshots on Engadget's website indicating that a couple of videos *might* have been done poorly encoded. That does not in and of itself prove the existence of a scam.
Do you know for a fact that this is how the iPod displays work when downsampling videos that are higher-res than the display itself?
I know, it's so unethical of Apple to hold a gun to poor iTunes users' heads and force them to buy that higher-res video.
Actually iPods can already downsample from higher-res videos. I play widescreen 640x360 MPEG4 videos I've encoded myself on it all the time with no issues.
iTunes takes PayPal, too.
6 speakers, probably not, but Quadraphonic records were all the rage for a brief time in the 1970's... rumor is that Dolby Surround receivers can decode them, too.
The coolest album cover I've seen -- or rather, felt -- was "Fear of Music" by Talking Heads. That was crazy.
So you compared it against the CD of "Yesterday" from "Help!" that George Martin digitally remixed after he was already starting to go deaf (and added digital reverb to make it sound "better" to his failing ears)? No wonder the vinyl sounded better.
Try listening to some Dr. Ebbetts CD remasters made FROM vinyl and see if you can ABX them -- I sincerely doubt you could.
Have you ever tried ABXing good quality encoded MP3's (as in, with LAME) against a lossless source? You might be surprised...
True, but Rockbox's wiki has directions on how to do true gapless encoding using LAME.
Wrong. I use foobar2k to scan my MP3's in albumgain mode and replaygain on Rockbox WORKS.
MP3Gain (which doesn't need replaygain running to reduce the volume, because it actually changes the volume of the MP3 itself, rather than putting in a tag that reads "reduce by -10dB") does save the undo data in APEv2 tags, but that doesn't make them incompatible with Rockbox.
Obligatory Rockbox plug: my iPod 5G (75MHz ARM processor, btw) plays OGG just fine w/Rockbox.
You still must not have RTFM if you were having hiccups on a 5G iPod. If you are using a skin with a VU meter, you'll have hiccups. If you don't, you won't. I have a 60GB iPod and NEVER have any problems with VBR MP3 files. The only time I've ever had it skip was using a high-bitrate OGG file with Crossfeed (not Crossfade) turned on.
He had an iTunes-compatible phone stolen. Not a big difference, but the summary still leads one to believe an iPod was what was stolen.
Yeah, thanks, dude. Like we need anyone ELSE moving here.
Come here and visit, please. Then GO HOME.