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Hmm. I just noticed that Agent is dropping messages unexpectedly. For example, I posted message (URL) yesterday. There are now ~12 messages in that thread. As I was reading through messages today, I saw there were 5 or 6 messages in the thread, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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Used to be, before CompUSA bought them, that Computer City would have packs of CD blanks for $20 with a $20 rebate - I just had to pay the tax. Ah, those were the days... -S (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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(...) Let's see... this week, Best Buy has an offer for a spindle of 50 CD-Rs, with rebate. Final cost: $19.99USD, plus a stamp and some patience. That's a pretty good deal, I guess. But gee whiz--it's almost 50 cents per disc. ;) I'm holding out (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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Cool, thanks for the pointer. Supposedly we're working on putting out such a device too, our CEO's been reportedly playing around with it at home -- but *I* don't have any details yet. *sigh* -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (URL) Maynes" (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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(...) It's been done. :) A company calling itself Pine is coming out with a critter they're naming the D'Music SM-200C, which can read MP3 audio from a CD. I've not checked it out further, but the information I've got lists their website as (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) America. and that they're so bloody small. what i'd love is a portable .mp3 player that reads cd's. ~600MB of .mp3 files will give me *hours* of continuous music at a reasonable (for me) quality. -Steven[1] [1]who's got somewhere around 4GB[2] (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Kevin, (...) Hmm... I am not an audio junkie, so if you say so, alright! (...) Yikes! (...) My roommate has a Sharp, I have bought two Sony (MZ-R55 and the player only, my fiancée has it now) and I have the MD player in my Suburban and her Shadow. I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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(...) Keep in mind thought that MD's use ATRAC compression, which is a bit lossy. Most people won't notice any serious difference with most music, but some diehard audiophiles (the kind who'll spend $2K on an amplifier kit using vacuum tubes) have a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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Steve, I have not looked too close, but you can get that CD duplicator that is a stand alone unit. It might have a line-in on it. I have been using a Minidisc system from Sony. It is a really sweet system, and I can put anything on it, from Digital (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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(...) I've been using Adaptec's Easy CD Creator (basic version came with my Yamaha burner, and I upgraded to Deluxe V3.5), and it seems to be able to handle noise rather well, considering how simple the interface is. It's pretty much set up for ease (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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(...) if you really wanted to get ambitious.. couldn't you use the phillips cd audio burner and connect that directly up to the TT? then at least you'd rid yourself of the analog->digital being directly into the computer... may result in better (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jennifer L. Boger writes: I've tried this using my TT to Mixer to LineIn on the SB but I get too much hiss. I assume this is due to interference from inside my computer. If only there was a external USB "sound card" that (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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(...) sounds pretty good... let me know if you're able to clear up the muffled bit with the EQ, i've got some vinyl to rip, but i've been concerned with the quality. as far as cdrs are concerned, having had to purchase many for my collection, if you (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Has anyone transferred their LP's to MP3 or CD audio? I'm just getting started, and I'd appreciate any hints, tips or warnings! What I've done so far: I've patched the tape-out on my amplifier to the line-in on my sound card. Since I'm running Win98 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine?
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(...) Yes and no. I get plenty of data, not much of it useful. Anyway, that's a machine of the past. Reformatting resolves many problems (and causes many others). Steve (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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stock RedHat61-supplied at this point. I'll go through a rebuild today & see if I can find a driver in the kit; I hadn't realized that one might already be there. thanks, guys. -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (URL) wrote... (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: NTFS driver for Linux?
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:50:47 GMT "Steven Vore" <svore@mindspring.com> wrote concerning 'Re: NTFS driver for Linux?': (...) are you using a stock kernel or a custom compiled one? I'm not sure if the stock will have ntfs support by default... you might (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hmm. I'm running 2.2.12, mount says that ntfs isn't supported. Is this something I should need a newer version (I see 2.2.13 & 14 on kernelnotes.org) or just some hints on how to use what I've already got? -- -Steven "Nothin' But Net!" (URL) Hodge" (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Is it possible to run Win98 and WinNT on the same machine?
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(...) You mean you don't get more data than you know what to do with when you go to Administrative Tools and run Event Viewer? I usually get enough data to figure out what's going on at least. Fixing it may be another problem. (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) to (...) Yep, it's in the 2.2 kernel. I assume that the write support will no longer by experiemental in the upcomming 2.4 kernel, but until then make sure you can recover from a trashed partition. I've tried it in readonly mode breifly, with (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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