Subject:
|
Re: Music while building
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:45:22 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
983 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott E. Sanburn wrote:
> I am sure something better will come along, but until then, I am happy with
> my recording. Please don't say MP3, I would prefer a more.... shall we say,
> definite/legal medium?
>
> FUT to debate, for MP3 issues.
I hope this won't be much of a debate: there's nothing illegal or even
gray-area about the MP3 format, unless you use an encoder that infringes on
the relavent technology patents.
Legally, there's no difference between copying your CDs to mini-disc and
copying them to MP3. It's just a format for the media.
File-swapping, ala Napster, is an entirely different issue, and one I don't
care to touch.
I'd definitely prefer high-quality MP3's on a big hard drive over a 400- or
even 100-CD changer.
I rip my CDs (and even my old vinyl) to average-quality MP3, they come
about to about a megabyte per minute, or 20-30 CDs per gigabyte. That's a
lot of music in a small place.
Ripping CD to MP3 is pretty brainless, once you've configured your ripper.
Put the CD in the drive, click GO. A few minutes later, you've got a new
set of MP3 files on your computer.
Steve
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Music while building
|
| (...) Exactly. How can a format be illegal? This kind of half-informed speak gives me hives. I used to watch a lot of CNN, and during the Napster flap they would talk about how users downloaded MP3s from the Napster website. Argh! eric (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Music while building
|
| 400! If I were to press random on that and then I started to build the rest of my robot- which I approximate to take another 3 years, would the last song be finished when I was done? (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
65 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
