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« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2008, 03:46 PM »okay I'm asking a lot here - I'm a modern music virgin - I got as far as cd's and stopped evolving
If there's any sites out the that might help do let me know
Over the last couple years I've saved stuff on the topic from the web in Surfulater but it's more about ripping music - which I havent quite gotten around to yet ...
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thanks for any help,
Tom
If there's any sites out the that might help do let me know
Over the last couple years I've saved stuff on the topic from the web in Surfulater but it's more about ripping music - which I havent quite gotten around to yet ...
| I've been downloading music from a site where people share music copied from old 78's (or even earlier stuff) The download is usually a mp3 file of some sort, then they have a metadata xml file 1) Question: If I save both mp3 and meta.xml file, I presume I need some programme (player/organiser/both?) which also reads the xml file (hints/recommendations?) |
| Sometimes they offer Flac / Ogg Vorbis / Wave files e.g. 2) General question: I want to know - if I wanted to produce a cd compilation that could be played on pretty much any cd player which format (if any of the above) would be the best to use ? - This may be too difficult for me in the sense if it's too much work I'll probably say feck it and use mp3s. (I'll ask at a later stage how to make the compilation - for starters I have the thread about how to standardise mp3 sound levels currently open) |
| I wanted to buy some music online came across two sites First, Amazon.com sounds good and reasonable - for albums at any rate, certainly a lot better than iTunes unfortunately the beggars only sell to the US Can international customers buy MP3 Music from Amazon.com?That credit cards are so international I didnt think it would be such a problem but maybe there's more to it than that .. Another site I came across which has a lot of interesting music (not so much top 40 I think) is Ligamusic.com I get the impression from the second link below that they actually make agreements with the labels they work with but this could very well be untrue (they apparently dont have some major labels but that could be just cause they're scared of them) - tracks I looked at were $0.15 each ... Couple of reviews of sorts: http://www.mouthshut...ic.com-146008-1.html - says music is reasonable quality "192Kbps+ VBR, LAME -alt-preset-standard" http://trig.com/kage...2008/6/20/post/49396 This the scary one - says it's a spam referrer: http://www.utahpictu...mp;ip=91.149.183.235 - 3) Any opinions/ other recommendations ? |
thanks for any help,
Tom
are you posting to the wrong thread Ethyar - or misreading something ? (or am I ...)
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- the in-laws, & they havent gotten their heads around "semi" auto-updates so "better a chance to fry" than no updates at all ..
oh, I guess I'd better just go up there and install the damn thing
