Disaster strikes!
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Topic: Disaster strikes!
Posted By: chopper
Subject: Disaster strikes!
Date Posted: October 17 2005 at 17:33
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No, not Snow Dog returning from his holiday. Since discovering this site, I've accumulated a fairly large collection of prog MP3s, but they're all burnt to CDs, not on an iPod (or similiar thingy). Today, my Sony CD/MP3/Atrac player has decided to stop playing MP3 and Atrac files, so I'm left with my normal CD collection. The only consolation is I'm off on 2 weeks hols on Friday so I won't be using it then anyway. Thank God I got the 3 year extended warranty (only because the bloke in Dixons let me have it for a tenner) and thank Blacksword that I got the 2 Renaissance CDs last week. Anyone else had any MP3-related mishaps (like not having backups of your favourite files)? |
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 17 2005 at 18:35
good grief don't even go there !! - i got 15Gb of music in my iTunes and i ain't backed up for ages - i got most burned to disc and backed up about 80% - most of my iTunes is prog related (  ) and tears would flow  - you got my complete sympathy - thank god snow dog not back though  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 17 2005 at 18:43
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Waddya mean not back??? Look before you leap, Horse arse!
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 17 2005 at 18:45
^ wheres my rock, pongo?
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 17 2005 at 18:47
No rock, just Turkish Delight.....................and I ate it! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 17 2005 at 18:54
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bloody typical - let you off the leash and you gobble up turkish delight - hope you make yourself sick
have you missed me/us ?? ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 18 2005 at 04:11
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Oh, how I've missed conversations like these over the last couple of weeks! Oi Snowy, I haven't got your postcard yet! Getting serious for a moment (!), it's probably about time I got a proper MP3 player. Since I've already got loads of MP3s on CD, I guess I shouldn't go down the iPod route. Any recommendations horza? Is there a good 20Gb player that will work with my old Windows 98 PC and USB connection? |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 18 2005 at 04:46
i am getting a 20 Gb iPOD soon - i can't see past it - i'm going to use it to back up my iTUNES on my PC - i know there are other mp3 players out there but the iPOD price coming down with the NANO on the scene now  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 18 2005 at 05:14
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Welcome back, Snowy. Hope you had a good break! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Bilek
Date Posted: October 18 2005 at 05:20
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Just curious: have you been in Turkey?!?!? (the reason? check my location on the left ------------- Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret: Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!) |
Snow Dog wrote:Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: October 18 2005 at 05:32
Hi Bilek, I don't know what "afiyet olsun" means, but it should be a funny expression... |
Posted By: Bilek
Date Posted: October 20 2005 at 05:07
Not exactly funny, but it should make the sense in its context. keep on progging! ------------- Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret: Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!) |
Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: October 20 2005 at 05:15
Hi Bilek, Yes Snow Dog did go to Turkey for his holidays. Bob. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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Posted By: Bilek
Date Posted: October 20 2005 at 05:23
Where the hell did you come from, Bob You knew Snow Dog was coming here, and didn't let me know!?!?!? Regrets!!!! I missed my chance to see another progger face to face now ------------- Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret: Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!) |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 20 2005 at 14:02
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Sorry, I forgot this thread YES I DID MISS EVEREYONE! And Bilek, I was hoteling at Kemer! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Bilek
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 05:25
It was among my first guesses (Antalya in general)... Next time you come near Istanbul (better if you come "in" Istanbul) drop me a PM... I want to see a progger in the flesh ------------- Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret: Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!) |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 18:39
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Last time it was Icmeler... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mikkijay
Date Posted: November 10 2005 at 10:40
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oooh yeah don't get me started man. I got a creative mp3 hdd 20gb and after a month it stopped working and was replaced with a sony walkman same spec. now my point is this, the software with the creative was very good and also the machine was able to use windows media player, but the hardware went kaput. the hardware with the sony is possibly better but sonicstage which is sony's bundled software is COMPLETE PANTS!!!!! I didn't realise the atrac situation before buying (my own fault) and since my computer blew up and i lost all my mp3 files i can't restore them from my player (and no backups) does anyone else think sony software is crap or do we have any workarounds?
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 10 2005 at 11:27
Well, the first time I used the Sony Sonicstage software, I tried to put about 20 of my CDs onto one in Atrac format. I left it running when I went to bed and it was still in the same place the next morning! It seems to work okay if you do about 3-4 CDs at a time otherwise it just hangs. It does have a better compression ratio and sounds better than MP3. I think I'd stick to MP3 however as it's more widespread. Atrac seems to be the music equivalent of Betamax. |