This game is classic like Beethoven. I loved it. At the flea market they have a unit that can play this game plus hundreds of others and it's only $20. All games are built in.

Upvote for Beethoven's No 14 in the background.

That's cool about offering lossless compression. The only point I was making is, why bother compressing at all now? The music costs more than 10 times the the hdd space to store it. If you can afford to buy the music, then you can definitely afford to buy the extra drive (my mind still reels at the notion of $100 for 1TB). Users can always compress their own for putting on mp3 players.

Anyway, sounds like swampgirl got what she was looking for, so this is all kind of academic, isn't it?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Actually Apple offers lossless compression for the .m4a format, however it doesn't compress the file very much. Standard .cda files are 1440 kbps/sec, while lossless only compresses the file to an average of 800 - 900 kbps/sec. So you're not gaining much.

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However the MP3's at amazon.com are 256 kbps/sec, while iTunes use 128 kbps/sec .m4a encoding, which I understand makes them equivalent as far audio quality is concerned. Am I wrong?

I have no idea. I've never used iTMS. And I definitely don't know enough about all the various encoding schemes. I just don't understand why none of them offer lossless compression. What, I'm going run out of drive space??? I can always rip an mp3 from the original to put on an iPod. f-in ridiculous.

Actually Apple offers lossless compression for the .m4a format, however it doesn't compress the file very much. Standard .cda files are 1440 kbps/sec, while lossless only compresses the file to an average of 800 - 900 kbps/sec. So you're not gaining much.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
However the MP3's at amazon.com are 256 kbps/sec, while iTunes use 128 kbps/sec .m4a encoding, which I understand makes them equivalent as far audio quality is concerned. Am I wrong?

I have no idea. I've never used iTMS. And I definitely don't know enough about all the various encoding schemes. I just don't understand why none of them offer lossless compression. What, I'm going run out of drive space??? I can always rip an mp3 from the original to put on an iPod. f-in ridiculous.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
However the MP3's at amazon.com are 256 kbps/sec, while iTunes use 128 kbps/sec .m4a encoding, which I understand makes them equivalent as far audio quality is concerned. Am I wrong?

I have no idea. I've never used iTMS. And I definitely don't know enough about all the various encoding schemes. I just don't understand why none of them offer lossless compression. What, I'm going run out of drive space??? I can always rip an mp3 from the original to put on an iPod. f-in ridiculous.

Guys, my son just took the cd I just burned for him up to his room. Wonder what Beethoven's inspiration will do for his lego constructions?

Conductor Christopher Hogwood has recorded all of Beethoven's symphonies on period instruments, in case you've ever wondered what this music sounded like back in the day.

http://btjunkie.org/torrent/AAM-Hogwood-Beethoven-Symphonies-flac-cue-covers/37797d59b0f742bcf0467a82300f11e4d279830ba71b

>> ^kronosposeidon:
I don't recommend iTunes because of the goddamn DRM they still use.

Not any more:

"The big news about the iTunes music store is that every song on the store is going to be DRM (Digital Restriction Management)-free by the end of this quarter."

I know you want to get as great a rendition and recording as possible, but really - it's the 9th. I don't think a crappy version exists, does it?

Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan is still considered to be one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, and you can buy his MP3 of Symphony #9 at Amazon.com for $8.99. Or if you feel like splurging, you can buy all nine Beethoven symphonies (conducted by Karajan) for $22.97.

I don't recommend iTunes because of the goddamn DRM they still use. All of Amazon.com's MP3 dowloads are DRM-free.

One more thing: Karajan was a member of the Nazi party from 1933 to 1939. I don't know how important that is to you in regards to this purchase, but many Jewish musicians refused to play for him, so I think it's only fair that you know.

Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Singverein, New Year's Eve 1977 in Berlin

Amazon link ... if you really like the 9th, this one will blow your brains out. Well, maybe not. But it's a good one.

It's on YT as well, here's the first part of the first movement. If it wasn't out of sync, i would have sifted it a long time ago.

>> ^thain:
Interesting, although it would have been interesting to actually hear him playing backwards, rather than just hearing the reversed audio track.


I agree. I recorded the first minute or so and reversed it. Pretty interestingly, it sounds just like another song. Hear it here:
http://rommelsantor.com/furelise-reverse.mp3 (It's under 700kb in size.)

when playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" chords backwards you get the melody for the Beatle's "Because"

I hear that if you play Beethoven backwards then the ghost of Mozart and Brahams will tear out your fingernails.

Be wary.

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Beethoven... what an asshole