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  1. Re:great... on Software Predicts Music Success · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A (quite successful)songwriter in Australia was recently interviewed and said he had worked out the basics of writing a hit,e.g. so many bars intro, chorus of such and such type etc. and had proved it worked. Now his aim was to write hits and popular songs that fell outside that specification.

  2. Re:Answer: This is truly evil on Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit? · · Score: 1

    You can buy more, just make sure you don't do it with your credit card in case they install a rootkit on it

  3. Re:Not intended to kill the iPod on Can Open Source Outdo the IPod? · · Score: 1

    I'm Sorry but I've never met an MP3 that I liked
    Apples AAC coding is superior in many regards
    try this as an experiment
    take your favourite song
    record it as a .wav
    mono it as a .wav file
    convert to MP3
    Convert back to .wav
    invert the phase
    add to the original .wav mono file
    what you will hear is the bits the MP3 conversion left behind
    try the same with apples AAC and you will have a nearly totally blank file indicating that the conversion is almost (but not quite) total
    Basically its funny that the music industry (the ones who actually do the work, not the suits at the RI#%AA) are trying to bring better quality music to the public with higher sample rates and larger word sizes (24/96) and the public are trying to destroy the music with worse and worse MP3 players that can turn a good piece of music into total S**T.
    At least thats my 1 cent worth (it used to be 2 but the government took the other 1)

  4. Re:Hiding presents. on How Do You Use Your Spare Drive Bays? · · Score: 1

    you give your wife and kids presents that are explosive ????!!!!!!

  5. Re:The essentials! on What's On Your Tech Bench? · · Score: 1

    put the mini fridge under the desk (for milk). You definately need an espresso machine or cafe bar

  6. but you liked MP3's on Intel Cutting Linux Out of Content Market · · Score: 1

    unfortunately, if the music is cheap/convenient enough for the masses it will become a standard.Just as VHS took over from Beta and MP3 is taking over from CD's and other better sounding formats.
    ( Have you ever Listened to your latest MP3 against the CD equivalent as an A/B comparison - Bleccchhhhhh ! )
    and just as windows is the defacto standard because it came with their computer and required no brains to set up or operate as compared to other better systems so this will probably worm its way into the common public usage because the general public couldn't be bothered with anything that is too much like hard work and will quite happily bend over in return for convenience