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Other => Other => Topic started by: Computer Hope Admin on December 01, 2008, 04:18:17 AM
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For the month of December we thought it would be interesting to see how many songs you have in your MP3 / iTunes library. Feel free to comment about how long you've been adding songs to your library, problems you've encountered, or anything else you feel relate to this months poll.
Thanks goes out to computeruler (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=47732) for this months poll suggestion.
All past monthly polls and results can also be found on the Computer Hope poll page (http://www.computerhope.com/polls.htm).
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I have 740 songs.
I clear out ones I no longer listen to every so often, haven't updated it for a while.
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I have 834. Last year I won a Zune from Microsoft by logging on to one of their webcasts. After six months of figuring out what a Zune was, I realized I have to feed it from time to time. A major food source for the Zune has been SpiralFrog.
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Two of them:
Mostly used:77
Another one has: 841, not all favourites
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I have 668.
But when I downloaded an updated version of i-tunes it could'nt find them.
It really sucks cause I gotta re-import all that stuff. :(
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i have um prepared to be amazed!
16,097 i had more but deleted some
it took me about um 2 months to get em all mostly 1
ZUNE PASS FTW!!!
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i have um prepared to be amazed!
16,097 i had more but deleted some
it took me about um 2 months to get em all mostly 1
ZUNE PASS FTW!!!
What kind of hard drive do you have?
I have 4,986 songs, a total of 327 hours, taking up 21.9GB... Most of it is 256KBPS, and the rest either around 300KBPS or 128...
Still, I think I listen to more music over the Internet than I do directly on my computer.
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Modest here - over a fairly long time I downloaded odd files - many were royalty-free experimentals - plus I have ripped quite a few DVDs to MP3.
When I picked up a good deal on a mini pocket MP3 player I threw most files onto that in various folders. Doubt much over 500.
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I have right around 500. Trying to fill up 8gb on an mp3 is harder then I thought it would be. Granted I'm only putting on what I like the most. Still not done. It's a time consuming task to boot!
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i have um prepared to be amazed!
16,097 i had more but deleted some
it took me about um 2 months to get em all mostly 1
ZUNE PASS FTW!!!
What kind of hard drive do you have?
I have 4,986 songs, a total of 327 hours, taking up 21.9GB... Most of it is 256KBPS, and the rest either around 300KBPS or 128...
Still, I think I listen to more music over the Internet than I do directly on my computer.
160 gb hdd ide 93 gbs of music a total of 15.5 gbs free space i need to convert these to 128 kbps that migh help by a gb or 2 anyone wanna donate a nice 500gb to me?
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1083 here- 142 on my "favourites" playlist.
408 (31 albums) of those tracks are Queen. Interesting.
And 143 are weird Al. Good for a laugh every once in a while :)
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I wish I had a good reliable backup of my music, let alone, computer.
I was thinking about getting a 100GB (or, maybe just around 40... that would cover everything except maybe Windows & Program Files)
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I wish I had a good reliable backup of my music, let alone, computer.
I was thinking about getting a 100GB (or, maybe just around 40... that would cover everything except maybe Windows & Program Files)
heh, I'm working off a 500GB, have two 160GB drives, and three 80GB drives. So the only reason I wouldn't have a backup is because I'm lazy. That is the case.
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Anything i want to keep i burn to cd.
but i keep around 2GB of play lists
that change depending on what flavor
of the month it is... ::)
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8260 here.
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I feel pretty old fashioned. I still listen to the radio. But, it works just fine.
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30, dont have Itunes(due to Apple not supporting Windows 2000) but got the songs off of my cousin's computer, bought an Itunes card at Walmart and downloaded some songs namely Linkin Park, Queen, and Weird Al(lol). and Mythbusters... :D, you gotta love Mythbusters ;)
all stuffed into my 4GB Ipod Nano(3rd gen) but still have another 2GB for some more songs and Mythbusters episodes.
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When I chose none it surprised me.I am not alone.. ;)
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lol only one other person about 10,000 i feel special
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why am I the only one with a median number?
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I actually got rid of a lot of music (lots of hard rock junk that I don't listen to anymore) and I have about 20 CD-R's full that I never put back on my computer after my last reformat. So, right now, I'm down to about 11,904 songs, which takes up about 41.4 GB of space. For a long time, I would download nearly a GB of music each day (and this was when I had dial-up), so I came across a LOT of music. A lot of it didn't make the cut, but as you can see, quite a bit of it got to stay on my computer. I would post the entire list, but it hasn't been updated in about a year.
As for my iPod...it has about 20 songs on it. Heh.
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How many songs are on that radio ? ?
Sorry couldn't resist. ::)
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depending upon were yea live, Country and news is all ;)
but im fine listing to Fox news once in a while. 8)
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I'm up to 756.
I somehow changed every label to this a few days ago. (http://i33.tinypic.com/2rmntax.jpg) Wasn't much fun.
I wouldn't be me without doing something idiotic like that now and then...
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I see a new avatar in your future.... ;D
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Time for me to reply.
589 songs....
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Over 25000. Many of them never listened and I think will never touch some of them. Just got about 30GB music collection from one of my friends.
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More than 10.000
I looooooooooooove music, old n new.
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yay i dont feel so alone anymore
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Windows reports that I have 10.634 files in my music folder. Of course, half of that is probably those lame pictures and files Windows Media Player adds. Or text files with lyrics or other assorted nonsense saying "Go here to download.."
Of course, that does not mean that my music is 'illegally copied'. On the contrary, I have the original CD of each and every artist I deem worthy of paying!
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Winamp says 8771...... Thats 22 Days, 2 hours, 37 minutes and 6 seconds in 38.40GB
Kind of a huge collection I never really utilize though ;D
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I think it would have been good to add a
10,000 to 20,000 songs
category, and then an
over 20,000 songs
group. There are probably a few people with more than 50,000.
At some level, a person goes over what he can spend the time listening to—ever—and what he can spend the time nicely cataloguing, especially removing the unwanted tracks from albums. :P
Not to mention that by the time a person ever really got on top of an extra-monstrous collection, enough years would have passed that his taste in music would likely have changed. ;D
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I think it would have been good to add a
10,000 to 20,000 songs
category, and then an
over 20,000 songs
group. There are probably a few people with more than 50,000.
At some level, a person goes over what he can spend the time listening to—ever—and what he can spend the time nicely cataloguing, especially removing the unwanted tracks from albums. :P
Not to mention that by the time a person ever really got on top of an extra-monstrous collection, enough years would have passed that his taste in music would likely have changed. ;D
Taste in music never changes; only a persons tendency to gravitate towards trends...
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Taste changes. At least two elements I've noticed:
— Simple verbal messages become less interesting. If a love song's lyrics are, say, vindictive (Nat King Cole's Dance, Ballerina, and hundreds more) or vacuous (staying with Nat King Cole, The Sand and the Sea), then tolerance diminishes with time. Of course, the really extreme lyrics of many wild and crazy songs (Louie Louie) are cherished forever.
— Basic "dance stomp" rhythm is maybe less in synch with quieter testosterone levels. The gut-kickstart music we enjoyed in fast cars when we were 17 is a cool memory, but a less desirable companion, when we are 60.
Teenagers like exuberance. Youth is all about abundant energy—as biologists surmise, extra energy that would support a family, or impress a would-be mate that there is enough to go around and more. All of that is in our music. I don't think music is trendy; not in the way that, say, clothing fashions are trendy. Music is more of a blood-consciousness, or spirit- or soul-consciousness. In downtown Vancouver, there is a street guitarist whose Stairway to Heaven has haunted Granville Street for years and years. He could play anything, but he plays Stairway to Heaven—slowly, repeatedly, as though forever: and it becomes the consciousness of the street.
But our tastes change. The memories remain, and the whimsies and the desires. I still love to listen to live blues, but I don't do it nearly as often. And now silence is one of my favourite musical genres. No, I would not listen to the Everly Brothers sing 'Bye, 'Bye, Love a few hundred times. It's not a trend. I'd just be bored.
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I still listen to the same music I did 10 years ago; just more often now, even.
But ten years isn't quite enough to waive your point.
So really; it's a matter of scale. "tolerance dimishes with time" for example; how much time are we talking here? If it's more then ten years (my guess is 40-50?) then I obviously have no counter for it. Although I have to say, I've listened to Queen's Headlong over 4 thousand times, and I have yet to get tired of it.
But I guess it's just a matter of time ;D
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If you think music is not a trend, just look at MTV. I very much doubt that the R&B, rap and kiddie-pop they play on there is in tune with anyone's emotions. If it is, we've got a whole generation of psychologically very messed up kiddies. Well, you know, you might have a point!
I'm sure they could make those kids listen to car engine sounds and still be certain of a large audience. A lot of music is profit driven. Artists mend their ways to be more in accordance with the current spirit of times (IE: Dolly Parton going from country to pop in the 80's) otherwise they'll lose out on record deals because some other sucker will gladly do it for them.
The only real music 'taste' that exists is that of the individual who bothers to look into what there is to offer and constantly broadens his/her horizon. Not someone who listens to the radio all day or goes to a club to hear the latest remixed songs. To the latter, his or her 'taste' will change according to every whim and fart the record companies produce. They spoon feed it to the masses because of a lack of individuality on many a listener's side.
No, I would not listen to the Everly Brothers sing 'Bye, 'Bye, Love a few hundred times. It's not a trend. I'd just be bored.
So you're bored of all Country, Rockabilly and Rock & Roll songs? You see, 'taste' is not defined by a single song along. It is defined by what kind of genre and sounds you can tolerate and enjoy.
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that's the type of thing I was trying to think of.
Amen.
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Hi, Raptor,
No, I was talking about music. The music industry is an industry, and what you say applies to the music industry. I was talking about music.
In other words, keeping in line with your thoughts about individualism, my opinion is that those people who enjoy music as individuals are likely to find their preferences changing over a course of years.
Like lots of things. I sat in a café with a long-time friend a few years ago, and we watched a really fantastic car go prowling down the street. "You know," my friend said, "not so many years ago, I'd have given anything to OWN that car, or one with that much charisma. But now I find myself actually preferring to not own it, and just to just watch it drive by."
I think we call it "getting older". It is just as much fun. But it is different. At first we say, "Well, I don't listen to that as much as I used to." That's all.
When you're 30, parties are a lot of fun. Maybe you'll meet someone. And certainly you'll be in some lively conversation, and you might be repeating parts of it to your friends next week.
But at 50 or 60, these things have largely been said and heard, and it really doesn't matter what Julie said or what John thought. It's all right, but it means less because you've been there and done that—a hundred times or a thousand times. So you move on.
Different music speaks to us. I guess it must have been 30 years ago that I gave up TV, because I didn't like endlessly hearing the hegemony any more. I didn't even know the word "hegemony" then! But I was responding to a new taste—which was a distaste—for what I was hearing. As you said, the industry was certainly right there. I was learning all about the oligarchy I lived in, without knowing that word either.
I loved music. Mine went from TV to radio to computer, with advertising disappearing along the way. My computer systems show very, very few advertisements. I don't have flash or any messenger/chat services. The computer is just a world library for me, with very little motion. (My systems are the diametrical opposite of, for example, MSN. And my news source is Aljazeera.)
But you are right in suggesting that the music of our culture might be infused with hegemonic marketing values—it definitely is. I used to enjoy watching Friends when I saw TV—but with time I just saw, more and more, the insidious values: "Here are your beliefs for today." "This is good and this is bad." "Think like the cool guy." "Look like the pretty girl." So television melted away, eventually becoming pretty loathsome.
Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Simon—they all lived within the giant industrial machinery. And yet, they were/are artists too. "Nothing you can say is not ultimately subversive—even 'good morning' carries the intention of influencing the way others think."
What surprises me, really, is that I have not gravitated more toward so-called classical music. I enjoy it as much (and as little) as I ever did. I suppose I still enjoy the same musical genres, but that's hard to say because I have always loved so much music, of so many genres.
Trends; no. I distrusted trends when I was probably about 10. I think I was born iconoclastic. I love individuals, even when I disagree with them. In music, you are with multitudes of other people, and you are also alone. It depends on the music, and it depends on you. I have often wondered about the man playing Stairway to Heaven on the sidewalk in the city core. It is exquisitely beautiful. He's played it there for years. I've talked with him sometimes, but he is as tough and remote as the sidewalk. He doesn't seem to play the guitar. He just sits there, a rough-looking character; tough as nails. The music just drips from his guitar-strings, like rain falls from the sky.
The music industry tried to own the music. But nobody owns music. Music is like a girl. You can play music, and you can sing music, and you can listen to music, and you can love music.
But you can never own music. Music owns you.
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Au contrare'...the Music Industry DOES own music......
Show me anything good off of the current Rolling Stone charts or (insert your source here) that involves true talent.
Take your time.
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There's only one thing I can say, really; I'll get back to you on that in 50 years.
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I think it would have been good to add a
10,000 to 20,000 songs
category, and then an
over 20,000 songs
group. There are probably a few people with more than 50,000.
Done. Users who've already voted can change your vote.
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nooo now im not the last one anymore *crys and downloads more music lol
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If you've never listened to about an hour of Hank Williams Sr. then you haven't lived at all...
Just another example.
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Au contrare'...the Music Industry DOES own music......
Show me anything good off of the current Rolling Stone charts or (insert your source here) that involves true talent.
Take your time.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've always been quite partial to The Smiths, Franz Ferdinand, and Cat Power. I personally think they've got some talent and they're all on Rolling Stone. I'm currently going over the Top 100 Singles of 2008 and there's actually some good stuff on here. Yes, most of it is pure crap, but there are at least ten good bands/artists on the list. And I'm quite surprised to see The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend, The Rapture, Kings of Leon, and White Denim on the list...it's not really the kind of music I expect to see getting media coverage. I guess I'm a bit sheltered when it comes to the mainstream music world. About 20% of the music I listen to was recorded on a 4-track in someone's garage, so I find it odd that some of the indie music I listen to would be in a popular music magazine. Of course, people have been saying that indie is becoming the new mainstream; I hope it's just a fluke.
If you've never listened to about an hour of Hank Williams Sr. then you haven't lived at all...
Just another example.
Not my cup o' tea. I did like listening to his grandson for awhile, though, but it eventually got old. It's the type of music I can only enjoy the first few times, then it loses his charm. Ooh, but Waylon Jennings' son Mason is fantastic. This is almost related to your comment...
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I've never grown tired of Queen Or Skynyrd... Like I say, I could listen to almost any of their songs over and over and over and over and over and I think you get the point *over*.
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I've never grown tired of Queen Or Skynyrd... Like I say, I could listen to almost any of their songs over and over and over and over and over and I think you get the point *over*.
You know, it depends heavily on my mood what I listen to. I mostly listen to metal when I'm exercising or just admiring my muscular body in the mirror reminding myself over and over of how manly I am
But most of the time I just put on random 80's pop songs because they just go with any occasion and I constantly switch between 'm
Jazz and Classical music go on when I have a long task to perform. You see, when you put on musical genres like that, there's almost no 'annoying song' that you'd just like to skip. I can just dump everything into the media player list and I'll be entertained.
I don't think that will ever change.
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Joe Jackson is one of my favorite English artists who had maybe 4 tunes that went popular...
However the base of his work is extremely talented both musically (he surrounds himself with very talented people) and lyrically.
Disappointingly when i turn other people on to his music about 10 % actually hear it and appreciate it for what it is...
But i think that was his goal all along...to be kind of an anti-artist.
So OK i give in...music is a very subjective taste.
To prove my point less than 10% of all those reading this will appreciate his tunes...
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I like music with meaning...
I was listing to something from the Juno sound track, "Loose Lips", by Kimya Dawson, I happen to love that song, and was obsessively listing to it over and over again. Then it hit me, in the middle of the night, what it meant, and it was 18 words that summed it up:
we're just dancing, we're just hugging,
singing, screaming, kissing, tugging
on the sleeve of how it used to be.
As I suddenly sat right up, completely awaking myself, realizing exactly what it meant.
Or, The Trial by Pink Floyd... freaky song when you really listen to it and analyze it. Let alone more than half the Pink Floyd songs....
But, the truth is, almost all good music has meaning behind it, some of it just isnt direct and up front in the lyrics as we often expect it to be.
I should go to bed...
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But, the truth is, almost all good music has meaning behind it, some of it just isnt direct and up front in the lyrics as we often expect it to be
Mr T - Treat your mother right (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rBidCkJxo)
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But, the truth is, almost all good music has meaning behind it, some of it just isnt direct and up front in the lyrics as we often expect it to be
Mr T - Treat your mother right (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rBidCkJxo)
That's allright, but if you're looking for good music with meaning behind it then...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVnH39UzI8
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Zylstra, I'm glad to hear that you're a Kimya Dawson fan...or that you at least like that song. It's not one of her best, in my opinion, but it's still pretty good. I absolutely love Kimya and all of the other members of The Moldy Peaches. Great stuff. You should check out some Jeffrey Lewis stuff too.
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I was just now remembering something:
I plan on learning the basics of acoustic guitar...
Being as I play the gateway instrument to every instrument: The Piano, it shouldent be overly difficult...
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I was just now remembering something:
I plan on learning the basics of acoustic guitar...
Being as I play the gateway instrument to every instrument: The Piano, it shouldent be overly difficult...
never got around to learning more songs on the piano(only one i know is the Peanuts Theme) :)
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I can play brandberg's concerto #5 with my toes on a ukulele. Or, I used to, when I was 2 and a half.
I can also play the people's court theme song with two weasels, a breathmint, and two bumblebees.
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i can play twinke twinke little star with my hands
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i can play the mario theme and the star fox theme on my cheeks(popping my cheeks with my fingers)
8)
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See...i was right about Joe Jackson.... ::)
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I have about 320. I received a Zune last year for Christmas. I am not too computer savey so I have had a few issues getting music for it. I do know that my daughter's I-Pod website is much faster than the Microsoft Zune website.
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trust me zunes are much better than ipods if people would only give them a chance!
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I'm tempted to say "will you shut up about it if we give you a chance" but I feel that might be a bit to forward. ;D
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4,981 songs...all legal and on a Maxtor 500gb external 8)
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8542
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I have 740 songs.
I clear out ones I no longer listen to every so often, haven't updated it for a while.
Calum does it the right way. I just put all cds on hard drive. I am beginning to cull down to sane number and ones I actually want to listen to. They wouldn't require an additional external hard drive.
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Hmm, I think I have about 2,000, but I'm not sure...
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I finally just got broadband am starting a new on line adventure ask me again in a few months.
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all 925
495 - 320 kb/s
460 - 1000-3200 kb/s 24bit (those "weight" 40-100 mb each ;D)
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i didnt no they went that high! how does it sound?
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i didnt no they went that high! how does it sound?
of course it can! why, just rip CDs to WAV files...
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i ment the bitrate or did you mean file size or bitrate
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i ment the bitrate or did you mean file size or bitrate
file size and bitrate.
24-bit sampling at 44100 Khz would be around 100MB per song- it's around 70 for 16-bit at 44100Khz.
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hows that sound quality?
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its gotta be amazing. since i get about 256kb/s - 300kb/s on most of my songs.
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its gotta be amazing. since i get about 256kb/s - 300kb/s on most of my songs.
it depends on the source. If the source is a CD, then it's kind of a waste: a CD is 16-bit stereo at 44.1Khz (not my mistaken 44,100Khz I said before ::)) if devcomp ripped a CD to 24 bit, an entire byte is wasted for each sample, and samples are taken 44100 times a second, so almost 44KB is wasted for each second of music..., if my calculations are not in error, of course.
If I want really good quality I just play it directly from the CDs- if I have it on CD. otherwise I likely purposely got a high-bitrate one (320kbps for my entire queen discography)
even with a 320kbps bitrate, I can still hear the difference (although slight) between them and playing from the CD.
On the other hand, I have a high-end Sound card :P
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Like BC_Programmer said,
The CD quality usually isnt high enough to rip that high. Your a bit obsessive if you do that...
Most people dont have the sound card to play and hear the difference, and if they do have a sound card that can, they often dont have the speakers. ("High Definition Sound Card" doesnt always cut it, since, the company doesnt define "high definition", and by speakers, I dont just mean loud, I mean well built).
Not to mention, the human ear cant tell the difference.
I prefer to keep my music at around 320KBPS, there was a time when I had VBR at that rate, I think.
Due to 40GB of music taking up my computer, on a 120GB hard drive when I have quite a few programs, I had to reduce everything to around 256KBPS, which is still a high quality.
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Not to mention, the human ear cant tell the difference.
Au' Contraire".....
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Not to mention, the human ear cant tell the difference.
Au' Contraire".....
And there I was reading all of this like I would really learn something... (http://bestsmileys.com/doh/4.gif)
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:D
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Not to mention, the human ear cant tell the difference.
Au' Contraire".....
Okay, to some point, we can tell the difference. However, our ears can only tell so much difference.
(Especially mine... too many bad frequencies in my hearing)
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well i can even fell diference...
in 320 kb/s the bass is good enough , but in that other songs ist like bomb in my room ;D Everything its moveing ;) And that highest songs (3200 kb/s) are rips from Vinyls used in studio, pretty good sound ;)
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my subwoofer is not that great.... its purpose now is just sitting next to the wall collecting dust even though its plugged in.
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my subwoofer is not that great.... its purpose now is just sitting next to the wall collecting dust even though its plugged in.
;D heh, Mine shakes the entire house. It's fun to unplug the left and right speaker, and just crank the volume, Bass, Bass Boost, and X-Fi Crystalizer. It just seems like an earthquake to everyone else, almost inaudible... just shaking...
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what speakers do you have?
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they actually aren't that great, Altec Lansing VS2421.
Only around 70-80 dollars, (I think) but they were definitely a great value.
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well i have Logitech Z-5500 and loewe individual sound system, they are strong enough ;D
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that subwoofer looks small for being able tos hake the whole house
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that subwoofer looks small for being able tos hake the whole house
For a 5" driver, it's pretty bloody powerful. I'll say I was surprised.
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how many watts is it? my sub is a 6.5in thats around 150watts
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how should I know, I don't pay attention to that kind of thing. I'll look it up though...
according to the spec sheet I DLd, it's 28 watts.
On the other hand, I think this is the same type of deal as a Power supply.
It's not the watts that matter, but rather the quality. I have no idea what kind of Ohms it has though. Or even how to use that term in the context of a sound device.
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Ohmmmmm is where the really really deep sounds come from...
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i should try disconnecting the satellites too
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326 songs, 1.93GB, total time 22:10:35.
I listen to a limited variety of rock and metal. Both my brothers have 30+GB worth of songs though.