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    How To: Rip Your Music Like a Pro

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    How to Build Your Own Iconic Muji CD Player for Way Less Than $178

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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    09/19/09

    In reply to How To: Rip Your Music Like a Pro
    That point about using VBR when encoding MP3s cannot be overemphasized. I wish that were the default setting.
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    09/19/09

    @The Lab: Highly recommended. Saves valuable hard drive space and gives out the same great (debatable) sound.
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    Image of Wrathernaut Wrathernaut
    09/20/09

    @The Lab: Can VBR's quality match 320 CBR?

    The size difference is irrelevant unless you're encoding for a player that can't store an adequate amount.
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    The Lab promoted this comment Wrathernaut was starred Wrathernaut was unstarred
    Image of The Lab The Lab
    09/20/09

    @Wrathernaut: A 320 VBR should be indistinguishable from a 320 CBR.

    Considering that my music collection is larger than any portable media player can handle, then yes it is relevant.
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    Image of JeffEd JeffEd
    09/19/09

    In reply to How To: Rip Your Music Like a Pro
    I'm fairly late on this but just to add an anecdote to the Lossless conversation.
    For anyone who keeps their music on their built-in hard drive and have a laptop, lossless is not a very good option of course. However, if you can spare the space, have a desktop, or an external drive for your music library, this is my opinion for Lossless:
    The advantage of Apple Lossless is simply that it plays so easily with iTunes/AppleTV/iPods/iPhones. It's easy, quick, and pretty seamless to rip this format in iTunes.
    The disadavantage of course is that if you want to use those lossless files on anything non-apple you're going to need to re-encode them. However, the chances of your device supporting FLAC is probably more slim than it supporting ALAC. If this is your (rare) case, than it is fairly quick and easy to just re-encode all your ALAC files to FLAC using Max in OSX.

    Bottom line: if you use Apple devices ALAC is probably going to give you the least amount of fuss. Lossless is lossless.
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    something_unique_and_descriptive promoted this comment JeffEd was starred JeffEd was unstarred
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    09/19/09

    @JeffEd: Lossless is not lossless.

    Despite the name lossless codecs do loose a small amount of data, FLAC looses less than ALAC, and being open source will be around long, long after it's completely obsolete. If your purpose is to archive your music then these are key differences and give FLAC the edge.

    If you care enough about your music to rip to lossless, might as well jump through an extra hoop or two to get the best.
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    09/19/09

    In reply to How To: Rip Your Music Like a Pro
    Your son Rip is on line toot.
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    Image of TonyWonder TonyWonder
    09/19/09

    In reply to How To: Rip Your Music Like a Pro
    I just wish Apple would released a "recently imported" tab on iTunes. When you have almost 10 thousand songs like me, its annoying as hell to go through and try to find the new songs and bring them over to your iPod, rename or add album art to them. Doesn't seem like a very hard thing to fix.
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    superberg promoted this comment TonyWonder was starred TonyWonder was unstarred
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    09/19/09

    @TonyWonder: It's been said three times already, but I just thought I'd be an ass and point out that there is a Smart Playlist in iTunes called "Recently Added." You should check it out.

    Even if you didn't have this list built-in, you could make your own Smart Playlist that could do the job. Scripting: It's Actually Pretty Useful, And Not That Hard.
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    Image of Beastage Beastage
    09/19/09

    In reply to How To: Rip Your Music Like a Pro
    Gizmodo truly became an obnoxious Apple propaganda site ...

    This isn't an Apple article but all the shots are
    Apple and OSX and OSX comes before Windows....

    News flash Applemodo, osx global market share is not even 5%!!!
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    TheWerewolf - Causing headlines! promoted this comment Beastage was starred Beastage was unstarred
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    09/19/09

    @Beastage: I can live with that - what bugs me is the obsession with iTunes.

    The vast majority of people don't use it since they're running PCs. Only people with iPods or iPhones are locked into using it and while there are a lot of them - they're still a fraction of all the phones out there, and not everyone who listens to music on their computers use PMPs (most don't, in fact).

    The majority of Windows users I've talked to really don't like iTunes.

    This came up on the 'modern smartphone' comparison when 'iTunes compatibility' was one of the points - which basically was a free point for the iPhone.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    09/19/09

    In reply to How To: Rip Your Music Like a Pro
    "iTunes is a decent audio encoder, and it'll get your music from point A—the CD—to points B, C and D—your computer, your MP3 player and your backup drive—without much trouble. But it'll do it with a less-than-great encoder, with occasionally inconsistent tagging, with album art that'll only work on Apple devices, and without support for the best lossless audio formats."

    Lossless is lossless, as in it doesn't lose any information.

    How is Apple lossless a "less than great" encoder? How is it any worse than any other lossless encoder?

    (Agreed on the wonky album art, but frankly, I couldn't care less about the art, all I care about is the music.)
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    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    09/19/09

    In reply to How To: Rip Your Music Like a Pro
    Ummm...
    How much does Best Buy charge to do this?
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    hodayathink is running for president of Naughty America promoted this comment DustyButt™ was starred DustyButt™ was unstarred
    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    09/02/09

    In reply to Stunning Shanghai Corporate Pavilion Made From Used CD Cases
    Maybe they picked clear CD cases because its easy to clean blood and sweat off of them.....this is in China, right?
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    Image of nemein nemein
    09/02/09

    @LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M:

    That was possibly the most ignorant thing I read today. If you were trying to be funny - you are not.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/02/09

    @nemein: I know right, because China is a veritable mecca for civil liberties. I don't mind being PC, but really now...
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 09/02/09 10:36 PM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    09/02/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:

    I know this sounds and looks beautiful and amazing and super-cool, but after reading the articles Giz posted the strains in Dubai and other Gawker sites talking about the horrors of Beijing, I just hope that the people building this eco-friendly building are treated well by USA and European standards ( amongst other countries that treat their citizens well ).
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    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    09/02/09

    @nemein:

    No I was not trying to be funny and it was the opposite of ignorant.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/02/09

    @LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: It's just a shame that lots of people tend to forget/ignore/or simply be unaware of some of the suffering that could be behind some of these pretty glittery buildings.
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    Image of MaceWandru MaceWandru
    09/01/09

    In reply to How to Build Your Own Iconic Muji CD Player for Way Less Than $178
    This may become my first DIY ever. I could see this being very practical in a bath/shower.
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    philibuster promoted this comment MaceWandru was starred MaceWandru was unstarred
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    09/01/09

    @MaceWandru: If you wrap it in a plastic bag.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/27/09

    In reply to GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs
    I'm not impressed. They've been talking about this since 1977.



    As you can see, holographic storage has been around for years.

     Reply
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    04/27/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:
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    04/27/09

    In reply to GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs
    Stimulated Light Utilizing Technology or SLUT.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/27/09

    In reply to GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs
    my guess it will be a another six years or more before we see any product using the tech. i heard of blu-ray starting around 1999 or so and if it follows the same time line it will be a while.


    ps
    i have no idea what i am talking about

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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    04/27/09

    @Reply Works Again _Nick: Don't worry. You don't need to know what you're talking about.


    This is the internet after all.

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    04/27/09

    @OCEntertainment: phew. thank god.
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    Image of dsh dsh
    04/27/09

    In reply to GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs
    Now the real work begins:

    Finding a product name that could not possibly be offensive in any target market.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    04/27/09

    @dsh: Lazer Blazers?
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    Image of Gilbert Capulong Gilbert Capulong
    04/17/09

    In reply to How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats
    Correction, weve been making music longer than we have been recording history.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/17/09

    @Gilbert Capulong: The key word here is "writing". As long as human beings have been around, chances are good we've been making music in some fashion, but it wasn't being written.
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    Image of 10:02am 10:02am
    04/17/09

    In reply to How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats
    Is vinyl "truly lossless"? The musical data is still going through format conversion from its original master...
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    Image of ARP ARP
    04/17/09

    @10:02am: It's also "lossy" from a physical perspective. The grooves get worn down and lose their fidelity. I know, I have New Order- Substance record that skates because I played it until it was smooth.
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    04/17/09

    @ARP: Anyone who loves their LP's will invest in a laser turntable to ensure that the only factor for wear is age, not running the record.
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