Music
Friday 25 February 2005 ◷ 01:12
My new harddisk allowed me to gather a lot of stuff that was scattered over several disks in several systems. Watching the files getting copied to the new space I noticed a lot of oggs getting copied, and I discovered I have almost my whole CD collection already ripped to oggs, some time ago. I do remember ripping some CDs, but being a bit paranoid about the quality of the non-Plextor CDROM-drive, the encoder settings and whatever, I thought I classified these rips as jitter-ridden mutations, which I deleted at some point to create some empty space. And it's not much trouble to pop the original CD in the real Compact Disc Player.
But with diskspace to burn, it turns out it's not that bad to have a Linux ogg-server around. It's easy to browse through a lot of tracks to find the one containing the sample that's reused in some current popular rip-off (Simple Minds IIRC), and you can even find the sleeved single-cds (Kim Lukas, Mylene Farmer) that tend to get lost between the jewel cased ones. For playback I use Zinf on Windows, because I'm still reinstalling Linux on the new harddisk and I didn't get around to apt-getting a Linux player, or compiling mplayer.
Which reminds me: I don't have an iPod. It's just not cool enough if you're used to a solid gold AIWA HS-JX2000, and the quality of MP3 is not as good as a Type-R Minidisc Walkman like my MZ-G755. And I have Oggplayer on my Sony-Ericsson P800 with 128MB of Memorystick. What I do need is a vinyl deck, because everytime I hear Joan Osborne on Sky Radio, I know Wildside's revision of One of Us is so much better. (Well, the original doesn't even qualify as good, that why it's on Sky Radio in the first place...)
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