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[strategy]

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[LongLiveYorke]

strategy, on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009, 2:13 AM, said:

sorry, this just doesn't jive with how I've pigeonholed you. unsay this immed.

What? BraveHeart has always had great taste in film.

[JubilantLankyLad]

LongLiveYorke, on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009, 8:33 AM, said:

What? BraveHeart has always had great tasting film.

Yeah, he puts ketchup on the celluloid and goes to town.

[timwakefield]

mk, on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009, 12:32 AM, said:

grab this: http://what.cd/torre...orrentid=151636 or the flac if you have the ratio to spare (or i could ul a flac of this album if anyone wants it because you really don't want to lose any of the sonic detail) and listen to "distant lights" on a good set of speakers or headphones. this album to me is as important as things like revolver, pet sounds, loveless, downward spiral etc in terms of how it pushed forward what a record could be.

I can definitely spare the ratio, but now would be a good time to ask this question: what do people do with FLACs? As in, they don't play on my mp3 player or in itunes. I can play them in vlc player, but basically my question is what does everybody do with their FLAC files? Am I retarded and they do play in normal music players? Does everybody burn them to cds and put them on their shelf? Lastly, which would have better sound quality: downloading the FLACs and converting them at 320 myself, or downloading the mp3 directly? I mean that question generally, not just for this album. Anyways, thanks for the recommendation! I've totally never heard of them, but I'm pretty excited to hear them now.

[mk]

timwakefield, on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009, 6:20 PM, said:

I can definitely spare the ratio, but now would be a good time to ask this question: what do people do with FLACs? As in, they don't play on my mp3 player or in itunes. I can play them in vlc player, but basically my question is what does everybody do with their FLAC files? Am I retarded and they do play in normal music players? Does everybody burn them to cds and put them on their shelf? Lastly, which would have better sound quality: downloading the FLACs and converting them at 320 myself, or downloading the mp3 directly? I mean that question generally, not just for this album. Anyways, thanks for the recommendation! I've totally never heard of them, but I'm pretty excited to hear them now.

1) "what do people do with flacs?"i listen to them using winamp and also decode them into wavs and burn CDs. itunes should be jettisoned immediately.2) "which would have better sound quality?" assuming you use a good mp3 encoder (i use winlame) it shouldn't matter. however, i strongly encourage using the highest quality variable bit rate (V0), as this setting sounds more natural to me than 320 and also takes up less space. but the whole point of flac is that it is the only truly lossless compressed audio format, which means you hear the music as it was meant to be heard without taking up gobs of hd space.

[strategy]

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[timwakefield]

mk, on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, 12:00 AM, said:

1) "what do people do with flacs?"i listen to them using winamp and also decode them into wavs and burn CDs. itunes should be jettisoned immediately.2) "which would have better sound quality?" assuming you use a good mp3 encoder (i use winlame) it shouldn't matter. however, i strongly encourage using the highest quality variable bit rate (V0), as this setting sounds more natural to me than 320 and also takes up less space. but the whole point of flac is that it is the only truly lossless compressed audio format, which means you hear the music as it was meant to be heard without taking up gobs of hd space.

Cool, thanks for all the info. The only problem with switching to winamp is I'd have a million albums to transfer over and they don't all have correct tags or whatever. I mean I don't use album art or any of the iGay stuff, but everything's already organized and titled and everything.

[strategy]

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[timwakefield]

strategy, on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, 2:03 AM, said:

you use a private music tracker and have music that isn't correctly tagged?

I haven't always used the same private tracker for all of my music, and have used various programs for converting things. :(I guess I have a new project.

[JubilantLankyLad]

timwakefield, on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009, 10:37 PM, said:

Cool, thanks for all the info. The only problem with switching to winamp is I'd have a million albums to transfer over and they don't all have correct tags or whatever. I mean I don't use album art or any of the iGay stuff, but everything's already organized and titled and everything.

I don't understand - if they're titled in itunes, won't they be tagged? I'm fairly certain that itunes has some sort of tagging function that can write to the mp3s

[timwakefield]

JubilantLankyLad, on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, 2:06 AM, said:

I don't understand - if they're titled in itunes, won't they be tagged? I'm fairly certain that itunes has some sort of tagging function that can write to the mp3s

Thank you, I will look into this. You remind me of that ouch guy, he was always coming up with computer tips.

[JubilantLankyLad]

timwakefield, on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009, 11:05 PM, said:

I haven't always used the same private tracker for all of my music, and have used various programs for converting things. :(I guess I have a new project.

I threw away about 20gigs of incomplete albums, transcodes, 128kbps encodes, and un/miss-tagged mp3s the day I got into what.Actually, I only did it yesterday, but in my defense, I thought I did it ages ago.

[JubilantLankyLad]

timwakefield, on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009, 11:07 PM, said:

Thank you, I will look into this. You remind me of that ouch guy, he was always coming up with computer tips.

he was a douchebag

[JubilantLankyLad]

Oh, and "what music am i listening to?" NOT that american idol single, ever again, good lord, what an abortion to inflict on the future of radio.

[Sal Paradise]

strategy, on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, 2:03 AM, said:

you use a private music tracker and have music that isn't correctly tagged?

you know what really chaps my ass? when I download an album and they don't have the tracks numbers. isn't that part of the rules? well it should be. and I mean, they're all tagged and what not, but I wish they would have a standardized file naming system, like band name, properly uppercased, space, dash, space album title, properly uppercased. so many people don't put spaces, or lowercase everything, or put those god damn _ things in there. I just don't like it.I know it doesn't really matter since they're all tagged properly and the file name doesn't really have an effect on it, but still. chapping of the ass happens.

[timwakefield]

mk, on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, 12:00 AM, said:

(i use winlame)

What settings do you use, or do you use the High Quality preset? It seems to call that V2, and on whatcd V0 is the standard for mp3.Currently listening to: Donuts. Not the first time I've heard it, but the first time I've listened to it over and over. Is amazing. Really friggin goddam amazing. I know some of the tracks on it from Ghostface too. Still loving Pretty Toney, despite a few lame tracks. Also Cut Chemist, had not heard him before. I checked out Burial for a few minutes but I need to wait until I'm in the mood for something really new to me.

[mk]

timwakefield, on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, 8:09 AM, said:

What settings do you use, or do you use the High Quality preset? It seems to call that V2, and on whatcd V0 is the standard for mp3.

Custom settings -> Encoding Quality = High, Quality = 0, Variable Bitrate Mode = Standard, uncheck, uncheck

[LongLiveYorke]

mk, on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, 10:43 AM, said:

Custom settings -> Encoding Quality = High, Quality = 0, Variable Bitrate Mode = Standard, uncheck, uncheck

Or, you could just buy a cd.

[timwakefield]

On a serious note: I really think there is so much justification for it. What would you rather, as a band or musician: selling your albums so that fans of your albums can buy them at $10 a pop, and some other people too. And a bunch of people buy your single on itunes for $1. Or that everybody in the whole world with the internet can get an entire copy of your music for free, and then you can sell lots of them a $30 concert ticket every year or so? I also buy vinyl, of bands who I never would have considered listening to. And so many dead artists. It's almost like a moral outrage over people hanging copies of famous artistic photographs on their wall which they downloaded, printed, and framed. Not quite like that, but very almost.As a man of the internet, I'm surprised at your moral stance against the free flow of information. Ability for everybody (well, anybody with internet) regardless of income or location or anything to access some of the greatest artistic achievements of mankind any time day or night - isn't that awesome, as far as the whole human consciousness or whatever? It's not killing music, that is for sure. http://www.boston.co...he_money_blues/

[uncooper]

timwakefield, on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, 9:09 AM, said:

Currently listening to: Donuts. Not the first time I've heard it, but the first time I've listened to it over and over. Is amazing. Really friggin goddam amazing. I know some of the tracks on it from Ghostface too. Still loving Pretty Toney, despite a few lame tracks. Also Cut Chemist, had not heard him before.

Hey I'm not sure if I've posted about him before or if I've seen you post about him before, but from a bunch of your recent posts regarding hiphop I strongly feel that you would like Big L.