Re: ZOO STATION (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:59:29 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > steve's advice about downloading,recording music in the digital age...
 > 
 > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:50:31 -0700
 > From: Steven Streufert/Bigfoot Books <http://www.gotsky.com/~s_streufert>
 > To: http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg
 > Subject: Re: ZOO STATION
 > 
 >   Noelle,
 > 
 > Any newer computer should come with a CD burner drive these days. It is 
 > so easy. I-Tunes,

Yeah, under normal circumstances, ripping a CD to hard drive is no problem
*unless* you're running iTunes on a 512Mb Mac Mini...

In any case, I can easily rip CDs on my Ubuntu Dell laptop.  I just need
to get off my ass and do it.

 > Windows Media Player, etc. will "rip" and "burn" just 
 > about anything it can play. I just play my CDs and then rip them onto my 
 > 500mb hard drive. When I want to make a disc for a friend it is as easy 
 > as dragging the list or files onto the program and popping a blank in 
 > and then clicking "burn." Fun. I am seriously thinking of just 
 > converting my whole collection to digital and buying a backup drive to 
 > keep it safe. Selling off loads of the original discs on Amazon. I am 
 > not very sentimental about CDs--they lack the human, organic feel of 
 > vinyl.

I like the Rhapsody concept even better -- then, you don't even need to
own a hard drive and keep it safe, you just need a network connection.

 > That being said, records are a huge pain unless you have a big, 
 > permanent house. I could fit my whole music collection on a drive the 
 > size of a small book!

Yes, I would like to convert all of our vinyl to digital (the device to do
this is on my Amazon wishlist) and any that is available on Rhapsody,
either throw away the record or just keep the cover.  (Sad, isn't it?)

 > Apple computers, the older ones, did have weird prohibitions. I have a
 > G3 laptop with a DVD drive, but it won't play movies due to copyright 
 > issues, as it is a removable drive, not a permanently installed one. Lame.
 > 
 > Try to find SoulSeek for downloads. It is not really legal, but it is 
 > GREAT for that stuff that is not released, live, b-sides, out of print 
 > or transferred from vinyl. Stuff that you could not buy, anyway.

I guess Rhapsody is the legal version; unfortunately, Rhapsody still
doesn't have a lot of stuff.

 > If Apple is fucking with you then, shite, just buy a Windows machine. 
 > They are perfectly suitable for all uses now, and the differences are 
 > truly minor, save that Macs cost twice as much!

I disagree -- buy a Linux machine.  Then you can do anything!