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Scratic
11/01/09

In reply to Mysterious Cowon W2 Is an Atom-Equipped Something or Other
What is this, Cowanmodo? It seems every story is speculation about what Cowan may or may not be working on for the future. I know you have a lot of Cowan fan-boys to appease, and I'm sure that Lam is on Cowan's payroll with free access to any unreleased Cowan products in exchange for plugging any leaks before they happen, but this is ridiculous. Just once I want to go to my favorite gadget site and read some real tech news. What is Kevin Rose wearing? Where does Walt Mossberg eat lunch? What is Coleco up to? These are questions I want answered. #tablets
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Carnality666
11/01/09

In reply to Mysterious Cowon W2 Is an Atom-Equipped Something or Other
hopefully it has a line out dock, I have the Cowon S9 and I find the headphone out lacking... #tablets
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Margatron
10/13/09

In reply to What Would Happen If We Tried to "Play" This NES Emulator Cartridge Casemod?
Did anyone else notice the SMB music was playing too fast? It's like he has ten seconds left in the level but he's right at the begining. That emulator is whack.

Still, I'd want one.
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qbxk
10/12/09

In reply to What Would Happen If We Tried to "Play" This NES Emulator Cartridge Casemod?
it also sports a feature where every couple times you start it up, it flashes blue and you have to blow into and smack it a few times to get it going
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yungjerry703
10/11/09

In reply to What Would Happen If We Tried to "Play" This NES Emulator Cartridge Casemod?
at first it was cool. than someone pointed it out and i suspicious. now i'm starting to think its a full blown conspiracy. why does every nes mod video have the person playing the first mario bros.?
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HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
10/12/09

@yungjerry703: If I say "NES", what's the first game you think of?

For most people, it's Super Mario Bros.
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appletoad
10/11/09

In reply to What Would Happen If We Tried to "Play" This NES Emulator Cartridge Casemod?
Holy overclocked processor/incorrect fps rate.

Better too fast than too slow, though.

Weird, tetris is normal speed. Perhaps he used wrong region ROM for SMB, maybe PAL instead of NTSC?
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Volvonaut
10/11/09

@appletoad: It does say (E) next to the rom, so it seems to be PAL. Is that really the only issue?
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appletoad
10/11/09

@Volvonaut: I think so. PAL/NTSC play at different speeds, and I think playing a euro cart on a US system/emu results in it being faster. But most emulators let you pick which region of the console to emulate.

Ah, this has put me in the mood for some Kaizo Mario World.
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JYJ705
10/11/09

In reply to What Would Happen If We Tried to "Play" This NES Emulator Cartridge Casemod?
i hate case modes that don't use original controllers because i hate the feeling of anything but the real thing in my hand. If i'm playing nes, i want an nes controller, not some 3rd party thing or some homemade thing no matter how well its made.

if you were to blind fold me, and give me an NES controller and the absolutly best knock off NES controller(or snes! for that matter)... i mean it could be within 1% exact of a real thing, and i could still tell which one is fake... i guess i spent that many hours with those two controllers in my hands... i kinda miss the feeling, i think i'm gonna go hold one for a few minutes.
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OCEntertainment
10/11/09

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All that and they didn't include a laser or a blow-up-the-earth button?

Color me unimpressed.
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teamlouish
10/11/09

In reply to What Would Happen If We Tried to "Play" This NES Emulator Cartridge Casemod?
Its shocking to see someone play Super Mario Bros without holding down the run button. He kept backing up to get enough speed to jump over the holes or the pipes, its like he hasn't played the game much and doesn't even know you can run.
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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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(Starman) Starman
09/19/09

@The Lab: Highly recommended. Saves valuable hard drive space and gives out the same great (debatable) sound.
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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
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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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
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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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
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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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
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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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 - Sotto voce
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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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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