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Always lump in my throat inducing.

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>> ^ponceleon:

>> ^cracanata:
Let me get this one. I was well known or speculated that EU wasn't as much about a union but rather a 4th Reich back then? Because this is the vibe I get these days.

Come again?

More on the subject. http://www.stirringtroubleinternationally.com/2011/11/24/germany-is-taking-over-europe-without-a-shot-being-fired/
Sure, this can easily pass as a conspiracy nut case but still.

>> ^cracanata:

Let me get this one. I was well known or speculated that EU wasn't as much about a union but rather a 4th Reich back then? Because this is the vibe I get these days.


Come again?

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>> ^rosser99:
>> ^supersaiyan93:
i really need to do this, but sweet raptor jesus that looks freaky. I would be expecting to hear Beethoven's Ninth through the whole procedure.

Beethoven 9, really? Ode to Joy? Maybe more like Orff's Carmina Burana.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Oh-Four-Tuna (My apologies to Mr. Orff)


I was going more with the Clockwork Orange reference than the dramatic music reference, but yeah. O Fortuna would be more appropriate.

>> ^supersaiyan93:
i really need to do this, but sweet raptor jesus that looks freaky. I would be expecting to hear Beethoven's Ninth through the whole procedure.


Beethoven 9, really? Ode to Joy? Maybe more like Orff's Carmina Burana.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Oh-Four-Tuna (My apologies to Mr. Orff)

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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.

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.

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.