donut
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 03:58 PM |
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MP3 music and stuff.. where's it going?
Recently i have bought a couple of albums from iTunes and have been really pleased as it gives me a chance to listen to music before purchasing. After
talking to a friend it occured to me that aswell as me and him, a few people are recording their CD's to their PC and now with MP3 Hifi
available it looks like CD's will soon be made redundant. All you will need to do is plug your iPod or MP3 player into your new hifi unit or use
the hard drive version and play whatever music you wish without having to go get the CD and pop it into the machine and change it when finished.
Is there anyone already using this technology or intends to. I am as my PC is rigged up to an amp and speakers in my office so i can listen to endless
Bucks Fizz all day long without hardly lifting a finger.
[Edited on 9/3/06 by donut]
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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iank
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 04:05 PM |
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Yes, I've got plenty of CDs I've never listened to, just ripped them and put them away safely.
Play everything from the PC (get a good soundcard - though they are cheap as chips these days) straight into an amp.
Going to get one of these (or equivalent) when funds allow...
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/02/review_squeezebox_3/
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Gav
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 04:09 PM |
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On a side note i get my mp3's from www.allofmp3.com apparently perfectly legal due to the small contribution they make to the russian music
federation(or some such organisation).
A full album costs less then 50p! 
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donut
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 04:10 PM |
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Funnily enough i was round desyboys house today and he has a netgear version which is wireless and plays music from any pc in the house through the
hifi, very very clever and worth looking into. His was about £89.
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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Messenjah
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 04:53 PM |
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i just plug my ipod into the hifi system and it sounds really good also if you take a wire with you you can plug it in to anyones hifi system so you
can always listen to your tunes at someones house 
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donut
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 04:54 PM |
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Yeah it seems such a versitile unit. I gotta get one!!!
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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quattromike
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 05:07 PM |
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I was thinking the same thing but then I thought about a PSP . Does it not like do the same as an mp3 player but allot of other stuff too like play
dvds and games anstuff?
Mike
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Surrey Dave
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 05:52 PM |
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I use laptop computers, mp3 + lyrics tags for gigs, mp3 music + Atomix for disco, I have all my cd music converted to mp3 , also sometimes connect to
hifi and play albums with Windows Media Player 9.0........
I use Musicmatch 8.2 to rip the cd's to mp3 you can set the bitrate and folders if you are connected to the web it will find the album ,artist
and track names and save in the correctly named folders with the names........fab
also have 512mb mp3 player which plugs in to USb port so you can load up approx 9 albums to take out..........1 battery hours of fun.......
In answer to your question YES I am using this technology
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john_p_b
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 06:15 PM |
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i'd say 90% of the cd's i buy now only get used once and thats to rip them to my laptop which when in my room connects to my amp so over
300 albums at the touch of a button far better than having a bag full of cd's with me all the time!
built a car, built a home, had a family. lost the family, lost the home, still got the car.
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 06:20 PM |
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my brother has a roku soundbrige running off our wireless network, all the music is stored network atttached brilliant
1000th post
[Edited on 9/3/06 by liam.mccaffrey]
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flak monkey
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 06:23 PM |
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If you want an MP3 player, dont by an iPod, they are crap Made of plastic and last about 18months before dying (well all my mates have!).
Sony ones are much better made, cost less for more storage, and look better too. Similarly Olympus ones are excellent and dead cool 
MP3s sound ok through a normal cheap stereo, but play them on a decent seperates system and they are shockingly appalling! Sound fine through
headphones though...
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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donut
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 06:23 PM |
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Sounds like i'm running to keep up!!
Tis good this tecnology stuff!!
Quattromike:
The PSP is a superb bit of kit but i hate video games which is what id is mainly for i think. The memory is pittiful for MP3 storage and bigger mem
chips are expensive. It does play DVD's however.
Microsoft are bringing out what sounds like a hand held PC which unlike palm tops, does everything your normal PC does at home. I think it's
called an MS Organic or some such thing.
[Edited on 9/3/06 by donut]
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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trogdor
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 06:35 PM |
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I also use this technology, i haven't played a cd in months! i have a fair bit of music my self but am connected to my housemates comp via a
network allowing my mediaplayer to play all his music too.
He has about 100 gb! there is so much there, we could play songs for about 3 months continously with no repeats! mp3 are great for my sound system as
its not that good but it is true when u play they loud they start to detoriate and in a good system they don't sound very nice at all!
however i don't like ipods, they are amazing in the size, has anyone seen an nanopod? they are unbelieveably small! i think they are abit flimsy
and easy to break.
i still use my mini disk player which holds about 5 albums in a single MD and lasts for 85 hours on its rechargeable batteries, this is why i like it
so much!
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tom_loughlin
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 06:35 PM |
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Personally, I cant stand mp3s - to me, when compared to a decent hifi, the sound quality is appaling - even when ripped at a high bitrate.
When i get home and listen to a song on cd or md on my hifi after hearing it on an mp3 player,or someones computer its like listening to a different
song!
i realise mp3s is the way forward, but im not a fan at all. give me a md player any day!
Im dissappointed to see the demise of md players, as, to me, theyre by far the best personal sound available. I think ipods are a rip off, and mp3
players are nowhere near mds in quality.
Just my 2ps worth
Tom
[Edited on 9/3/06 by tom_loughlin]
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trogdor
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 06:37 PM |
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i think at the higher bitrates they are pretty good, well not mp3's but WMA files at least which are based on the mp3 format but do sound much
better.
i guess it does depend on the sound system, i only have a 50 pound pair of speakers and subwoofer.
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flak monkey
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 06:41 PM |
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MD's sound crap as well when you turn them up on a *good* stereo system. On your average comet/argos system you wont notice the difference. I
have an MD deck on my seperates system, and still use it regularly.
I still have an MD player, and I agree that they offer the best sound in a small package (portable sound)
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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trogdor
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 06:59 PM |
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my MD's would sound really crap on a "good" system! they are recorded in LP4 mode on anything other than headphones they sound
really scratchy and theres no bass!
but they are great as a portable sound system. have also dropped it any number of times and it still works great! no ipod would do that.
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donut
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 07:06 PM |
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I must admit that i have had no problem at all with sound quality at high volume. I have a Cambridge Audio amp and Kef speakers and the MP3 comes from
my PC. Ok i'm sitting pretty near the speakers but even turned up it still sounds just like a normal CD to me. Maybe i'm going deaf.....eh
what.......parden...
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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JonBowden
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 09:34 PM |
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I used to be well into HiFi, but I find the conveniance of MP3s makes me listen to them more.
flak monkey is right about iPods. My son got one last christmas (a year and a bit ago). Lasted about 10 months. Replaced under guarantee - that lasted
about two months. All his friends iPods have gone the same way.
Jon
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big_wasa
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 10:00 PM |
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have even wired mine to the car cd player for those longer runs
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quattromike
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 10:02 PM |
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Ok been lookin at the sony walkman mp3 player looks cool I think it might be a purchace in the near future, Just need to find out where to get it
cheap now
Mike
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iank
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 10:21 PM |
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I rip to ogg format which to my ear sounds better than mp3 even at lower bitrates.
If you want to play stored music through a "really" good hifi buy a massive hard disc and keep them uncompressed as .wav's or
compress using flac which is lossless. Both as as good as the source CDs assuming you use a really good soundcard.
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flak monkey
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| posted on 9/3/06 at 10:40 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by quattromike
Ok been lookin at the sony walkman mp3 player looks cool I think it might be a purchace in the near future, Just need to find out where to get it
cheap now
Mike
When I got mine amazon were the cheapest i found (£20 less than everywhere else). I have an all black 20Gb NWHD5, very nice bit of kit with magnesium
alloy casing. Cost £180 last summer (compared to the £220 for the equivalent iPod at the time!). Tough as hell, got some neat tricks built in as well
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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JonBowden
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| posted on 10/3/06 at 10:18 AM |
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Ok, I'might be being a bit thick -
What's an MD?
Jon
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donut
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| posted on 10/3/06 at 10:35 AM |
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Mini Disc
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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