That's awesome. I didn't even know there was a complete Rachmaninoff available out there. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that. For now, I'm wondering how big an mp3 player I'd need to put this whole thing on it...
Hmm. About 4gb at the low bitrate I rip at (I tend to figure that with the background noise and low playback quality I'll endure walking around that there's no point in ripping at a high bitrate - wma at 64kbps seems perfectly adequate, and I'll get good playback from using the CD itself back home).
You can't rip it with something that will access the Gracenote database?
Merry Christmas, btw. Hope it was a good one. I meant to say - thank you to you and B for your card. In a moment of idiocy, I deleted your postal address and by the time I realised, it was far too late to be sending a card. Sort out the house and I'll send you a housewarming one :)
You can't rip it with something that will access the Gracenote database?
No idea. MS's Media Player (which is, I must say pretty good at a lot of things, just unfortunately not finding classical music, at least in a consistent format) just uses its own database, both B and I use players that work well with Windows Media format (I could use AAC, but she can't, so WMA it is) and Windows Media Player in its latest iteration really is the best option - WinAmp is annoying, and Musicmatch devolved into buggy awfulness when Yahoo bought it.
I don't know about him, but I hate iTunes with a passion, and I don't see how Mac people can simultaneously tout its virtues and bitch about Microsoft's proprietariness.
Well, if iTunes routinely changed its format so it would no longer play music you ripped with a former version of itself...
Windows Media Player has ever done that? I know that previous iterations of WMP can't play tracks ripped by the most recent version (but you have to go back maybe 6 generations for that), but that's all I can think of.
or refused to play anything that wasn't ripped with itself...
??? OK, so you need a plugin for Ogg Vorbis, and it won't play Apple's AAC files, but that's Apple's choice, not Microsoft's.
(pant pant pant) sorry... or was an OS... or didn't Just Work (TM)...In all seriousness, we really haven't had any problems with it. Version 11 is really very well designed, and I've never found it trying to install anything I want, nor has it ever nagged me to try and take over playing every media format on the planet (Quicktime does that to me - maybe it's each company trying to take over the other's computers, heck, installing Quicktime when I didn't want iTunes too was a bit of a trial). For me, it just
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You can't rip it with something that will access the Gracenote database?
Merry Christmas, btw. Hope it was a good one. I meant to say - thank you to you and B for your card. In a moment of idiocy, I deleted your postal address and by the time I realised, it was far too late to be sending a card. Sort out the house and I'll send you a housewarming one :)
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No idea. MS's Media Player (which is, I must say pretty good at a lot of things, just unfortunately not finding classical music, at least in a consistent format) just uses its own database, both B and I use players that work well with Windows Media format (I could use AAC, but she can't, so WMA it is) and Windows Media Player in its latest iteration really is the best option - WinAmp is annoying, and Musicmatch devolved into buggy awfulness when Yahoo bought it.
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Windows Media Player has ever done that? I know that previous iterations of WMP can't play tracks ripped by the most recent version (but you have to go back maybe 6 generations for that), but that's all I can think of.
or refused to play anything that wasn't ripped with itself...
??? OK, so you need a plugin for Ogg Vorbis, and it won't play Apple's AAC files, but that's Apple's choice, not Microsoft's.
(pant pant pant) sorry... or was an OS... or didn't Just Work (TM)...In all seriousness, we really haven't had any problems with it. Version 11 is really very well designed, and I've never found it trying to install anything I want, nor has it ever nagged me to try and take over playing every media format on the planet (Quicktime does that to me - maybe it's each company trying to take over the other's computers, heck, installing Quicktime when I didn't want iTunes too was a bit of a trial). For me, it just ( ... )
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