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Posted by dampeoples on 09-22-2001 05:15 AM:

Music???MP3???

Anybody still into MP3's? If so, what kind of music do you like? Here's a sample of my broad tastes.

Classic Rock
Reggae (Traditional and DJ)
Heavy Metal
Rap-Core
Old Rap
Jazz
Alternative

Oh heck, pretty much anything, although not too fond of classical or country, but like some of each.

Posted by Yorick on 09-22-2001 02:05 PM:

I have an eMusic account. Mostly I've downloaded They Might Be Giants, punk, comedy, and 40's jazz.
it's a legal service and the artists supposedly get paid a fee for every download.
I've also ripped about 50 or so albums & singles from my cd collection. Beatles, Tori Amos, some soundtracks.

there's another thread around someplace about musical tastes.

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Posted by dampeoples on 09-22-2001 03:47 PM:

I never bought any MP3's, I just used Napster in hotel room T-1 lines until the music companies started complaining, I managed to get around 4000 tunes before it was decided it was wrong.

Posted by Galley_SimRacer on 09-23-2001 12:14 AM:

I have encoded hundreds of CD's. I use RipEnc with GoGo in BeOS. I get 15x speeds with my 1.4GHz Athlon. BeOS is an MP3 junkie's dream OS.
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/...2592772,00.html

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Posted by dampeoples on 09-23-2001 12:18 AM:

1.4GHz!
I'm crawling at 466 desktop
433 laptop
33 Prism

I never ripped any cd's, i just don't have the HD space, I only have 30GB, and 20 is USB and slow.

Posted by ovaltine on 09-23-2001 02:21 AM:

I'm jealous!

I have had zero luck getting mp3s off the net since napster. I downloaded limewire and....it didn't work (missing a file, and it doesn't allow uninstall). I tried Bearshare, but it would download until it read 99%complete, then I would get an error message! Two days ago my desktop crashed and I lost a lot of my old music files
I'm glad you guys are having good luck

Posted by Yorick on 09-23-2001 02:41 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by dampeoples
I never ripped any cd's, i just don't have the HD space, I only have 30GB, and 20 is USB and slow.

I put in a 60GB (57 after format) internal last fall before I started seriously fiddling with music files. At present about 18 GB is being used for MP3 (about 4900 files, 11+ days worth of sound, per iTunes). That doesn't count the stuff I've dl'd but haven't filed yet, which probably takes up another coupla gigs.
I've thought about ripping all of my CDs, but I have close to 900 discs (approximate) in an ever-growing collection so I'll have to get a couple of external HD's for that.

I feel bad for you ovaltine -- I don't have a backup for this stuff at the moment and I'd lose it if I lost it. I mean I'd freak out if I lost it. (which wouldn't be too bad, except for the red jammies and the blue skin.)

by the way ... try Hotline.

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Posted by Thunderbird291 on 09-23-2001 02:54 AM:

Re: I'm jealous!

quote:
Originally posted by ovaltine
I have had zero luck getting mp3s off the net since napster. I downloaded limewire and....it didn't work (missing a file, and it doesn't allow uninstall). I tried Bearshare, but it would download until it read 99%complete, then I would get an error message! Two days ago my desktop crashed and I lost a lot of my old music files
I'm glad you guys are having good luck

Try Winmx @Winmx.com

Posted by dampeoples on 09-23-2001 03:49 AM:

I havn't tried lately, but audiogalaxy was my drug of choice after Napster, but I heard they were not accepting new accounts. I think I may back all mine up on CD's and get one of those cd-mp3 players and have lots of stuff to listen to on the road.

Posted by ovaltine on 09-23-2001 04:36 AM:

Things are looking up

Hmmm.... good posts! I thank you and my rca lyra thanks you.

Posted by dampeoples on 09-23-2001 04:40 AM:

Hey Ovaltine, I've got a lyra as well, do you have the first one or Lyra2? I wanna buy a 128MB or larger CF card for it and RCA recommends 64MB max, you tried a card larger than 64?

Posted by ovaltine on 09-23-2001 02:38 PM:

First Lyra

Dampeoples, I have the first lyra. I have only tried 64, but I have been thinking that perhaps RCA made the 64 limit recommendation b/c there were no Type I cards at 128 at the time? Maybe?... Hopefully?...

Posted by dampeoples on 09-23-2001 10:15 PM:

race ya to buy one!

Posted by Galley_SimRacer on 09-24-2001 12:47 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by dampeoples
1.4GHz!
I'm crawling at 466 desktop
433 laptop
33 Prism

I never ripped any cd's, i just don't have the HD space, I only have 30GB, and 20 is USB and slow.

Before I built my new system, I only had an 8GB partition for MP3's, so I would dump them onto CD-R. The only problem with that is you don't know where a certain song or artist is on which disc. Here's a solution:
In BeOS, I use Virtual File Archive. It reads the disc and outputs the folders and files, so they appear that they are on the hard drive; that way it is still possible to run a query! It's free at: http://www.bebits.com/app/1843
In Windows, I use MPEG Audio Collection. It does the same thing, but creates its own searchable database. Very impressive program, and it's free! http://www.jfaul.de/

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