I might have to give this a look. iTunes absolutely sucks these days- every time they put out a new version it's worse than the last one and you can't find any of the controls you used to use. I'm stuck with it on my Mac because Apple insists on it being ground zero for my devices to talk to each other, but I'd love to fire it as a music player and use something that doesn't try to be everything only to fail at being good at anything.
I use [Media Monkey] , which plays nice with both Apple and non-Apple stuff (like my Sansa ZipClip and my Kindle) and even plain old hard drives/USB drives, and does a billion things in less space and less hassle than iTunes.
If you burn CDs to a hard disk (and you should, because CDs are a dying medium), it makes sense to do it in high-resolution lossless format (WAV, AIFF, AU or raw header-less PCM) partly because it might sound a little better, but mostly because these are like bitmap graphics: they provide the greatest assurance that future tech wizardry will still be able to read from them. They make big files, but disk space is pretty cheap these days.
It's completely insane how cheap storage is now. Depending on whether you don't mind plugging it in or not, you can get a 4TB or 5TB hard drive for less than $125 now. Absolutely nuts how cheap it is.
I remember when a client gave us some very large mapping files and I had to go all the way to the then-CEO of my-then-150-employee company to get approval to spend $5,000 on a one-gig drive. It was a "full-height" drive that ran from the front of the big computer case to the back. People (Apple types, natch) were saying you should mount it on a marble slab so it wouldn't be damaged by stray vibrations.
I needed to pick up a thumb drive to load up and drop in the mail tomorrow, and I got a 4GB at the grocery store for $8.99, and I was huffily insulted that they were overcharging by so much.
When I came to the "engineering" company above in 1988, our 15-person office still had Xerox dedicated word processors for the secretaries, and for all of us tech folks there was one (1) IBM PC-XT with two floppy drives, 1mB (really 640K) of RAM, a Hercules graphics card for the monochrome screen, and a Hayes modem in one of those extruded aluminum cases that will still be in landfills when the sun goes nova. The pinhead printer was in a sound-deadening case to reduce the incredibly irritating noise it made between paper jams.
My first tech job was in 91 or so, when I went to work at Intel in the DVI division they had just bought from RCA in order to integrate the ability to view digital video on computers. We would bring in master tapes and digitize them for clients, create kiosk front-ends for companies like Bank Street and Blockbuster (who planned to send digital video to kiosks to be burned to individual dvds in stores). I thought it was amazing that some of the engineers had pcs with 660MB hard drives in them so they could lay out CDs with digital video on them.
I am currently setting up my new Roku so I can stream endless quantities of HD video to my tv without that pesky 1 millisecond lag the old one had.
La Signora Quarantanova had the house wired for Ethernet when she designed the place in 2002, and I use it for all kinds of cool stuff, like moving those yoooge music files around with JRiver.
80386 Libel!
How about my old 286X2?
Just one more computer-nostalgia item:
We were supposed to keep a log next to each computer and write down the user and job number each hour the computer was used, and then $5/hr would be charged to the project you were working on. Nobody really did it much, but when I decided I had to have a '386, I filled out a few months worth of logs until I had enough to pay for the computer, and took 'em to the office manager. "If you let me get the computer," I told him, "I'll turn in these logs."
He was kind of a dick, and so was I. Good times!
Ummmm… cat5e, I hope?
Hard to tell cuz it's all in the walls. Was that available in '04?
Um… I think so, but the choice to use it back then was about how future-proof you wanted to be.
It should say so on the jacket. I'll take a look.
People (Apple types, natch) were saying you should mount it on a marble slab so it wouldn't be damaged by stray vibrations.
Yeah, I've long thought that MP3's and other lossy compression schemes only made sense when you were downloading songs over a 56k modem to your 8 GB drive. Now it just seems to be inertia.
Heh. I actually use RealMedia to upload videos because my aunt can easily download them to her Kindle or watch on Roku in NJ, but I only use their webapp. Their dumb software is crap.
Not all Apple devotees are brainless, but all brainless people prefer Apple software and hardware. Those round-corner buttons are so comforting, like little pillows!
The problem is that, with the modern internet and its "app," "cloud," and "SaaS" mentality, getting into a service is a far easier process than getting out of it.
I use [this]. Cheap, or free, and does more stuff than I'll ever need.
Thanks I might give it a look . I have hundreds of CD's that I've been meaning to computerize [for the last ten years.]
I might have to give this a look. iTunes absolutely sucks these days- every time they put out a new version it's worse than the last one and you can't find any of the controls you used to use. I'm stuck with it on my Mac because Apple insists on it being ground zero for my devices to talk to each other, but I'd love to fire it as a music player and use something that doesn't try to be everything only to fail at being good at anything.
I use [Media Monkey] , which plays nice with both Apple and non-Apple stuff (like my Sansa ZipClip and my Kindle) and even plain old hard drives/USB drives, and does a billion things in less space and less hassle than iTunes.
Hmmmmmm. That looks good too.
I find cigar box guitars work better than apple box guitars.
Took a long look at my bud's 'vintage ' Blue Bird mando while I was dog-watching for him. I think it was grandpappy's. Not it, but it looks similar.
<img src="http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/images/g/7IoAAOSw9mFWMn4g/s-l225.jpg" height="300" width="300">
Neck, fret board, head, sides , all good. Front and back have a split. Reso-cover kinda rusty.
Luv the reso.
Looking again…….maybe that IS it. Have to ask him if he put it on ebay.
If you burn CDs to a hard disk (and you should, because CDs are a dying medium), it makes sense to do it in high-resolution lossless format (WAV, AIFF, AU or raw header-less PCM) partly because it might sound a little better, but mostly because these are like bitmap graphics: they provide the greatest assurance that future tech wizardry will still be able to read from them. They make big files, but disk space is pretty cheap these days.
It's completely insane how cheap storage is now. Depending on whether you don't mind plugging it in or not, you can get a 4TB or 5TB hard drive for less than $125 now. Absolutely nuts how cheap it is.
I remember when a client gave us some very large mapping files and I had to go all the way to the then-CEO of my-then-150-employee company to get approval to spend $5,000 on a one-gig drive. It was a "full-height" drive that ran from the front of the big computer case to the back. People (Apple types, natch) were saying you should mount it on a marble slab so it wouldn't be damaged by stray vibrations.
I needed to pick up a thumb drive to load up and drop in the mail tomorrow, and I got a 4GB at the grocery store for $8.99, and I was huffily insulted that they were overcharging by so much.
When I came to the "engineering" company above in 1988, our 15-person office still had Xerox dedicated word processors for the secretaries, and for all of us tech folks there was one (1) IBM PC-XT with two floppy drives, 1mB (really 640K) of RAM, a Hercules graphics card for the monochrome screen, and a Hayes modem in one of those extruded aluminum cases that will still be in landfills when the sun goes nova. The pinhead printer was in a sound-deadening case to reduce the incredibly irritating noise it made between paper jams.
My first tech job was in 91 or so, when I went to work at Intel in the DVI division they had just bought from RCA in order to integrate the ability to view digital video on computers. We would bring in master tapes and digitize them for clients, create kiosk front-ends for companies like Bank Street and Blockbuster (who planned to send digital video to kiosks to be burned to individual dvds in stores). I thought it was amazing that some of the engineers had pcs with 660MB hard drives in them so they could lay out CDs with digital video on them.
I am currently setting up my new Roku so I can stream endless quantities of HD video to my tv without that pesky 1 millisecond lag the old one had.
La Signora Quarantanova had the house wired for Ethernet when she designed the place in 2002, and I use it for all kinds of cool stuff, like moving those yoooge music files around with JRiver.
80386 Libel!
How about my old 286X2?
Just one more computer-nostalgia item:
We were supposed to keep a log next to each computer and write down the user and job number each hour the computer was used, and then $5/hr would be charged to the project you were working on. Nobody really did it much, but when I decided I had to have a '386, I filled out a few months worth of logs until I had enough to pay for the computer, and took 'em to the office manager. "If you let me get the computer," I told him, "I'll turn in these logs."
He was kind of a dick, and so was I. Good times!
Ummmm… cat5e, I hope?
Hard to tell cuz it's all in the walls. Was that available in '04?
Um… I think so, but the choice to use it back then was about how future-proof you wanted to be.
It should say so on the jacket. I'll take a look.
Do they work for Monster Cables now?
Yeah, I've long thought that MP3's and other lossy compression schemes only made sense when you were downloading songs over a 56k modem to your 8 GB drive. Now it just seems to be inertia.
Itunes ate my Yoko Ono.
This is not a millennial.
But he seems wholly ignorant of QuickTime all the same.
I'll let Apple software back onto a computer of mine at around the same time I let back in RealMedia software.
Heh. I actually use RealMedia to upload videos because my aunt can easily download them to her Kindle or watch on Roku in NJ, but I only use their webapp. Their dumb software is crap.
JRiver handles video as well. And photos if you want.
sounds interesting- send away
Not all Apple devotees are brainless, but all brainless people prefer Apple software and hardware. Those round-corner buttons are so comforting, like little pillows!
The problem is that, with the modern internet and its "app," "cloud," and "SaaS" mentality, getting into a service is a far easier process than getting out of it.
Good thing the student wasn't in a technical field where computers are used to do important things.
that's my boss… "but I saved it in word!"
JRiver lets you get in and tinker with file tags individually or in groups through its GUI, Fairly intuitive.
cd \
Del C:\*.*/s
**Are you sure?** (Y/N)
fsck sake!
If only you knew…
You're old!
(You can do more damage nowadays with "diskpart.")
You like your data like you like your music?
FDISK used to be a pretty good way to F up a DISK, as I recall.
Yes, am old.