Listening to: 'Bodhisattva' from 'A Decade Of Steely Dan' by 'Steely Dan' on Media Center 9.0

Holly Cole - Jersey Girl

Cylob - mood bells - 05 - dark_days

Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge (CD) on Pioneer DV-354 DVD Player

4 Strings - Take Me Away (Vocal Radio) in glorious 4.1 sound. soooooo surreal :D

The Who - Who Are You hehehe CSI!!!

4 Strings tracks rule... got both releases Diving and Take Me Away (Into the Night)

Excerpts from various Chick Corea albums - Light as a feather; Tap Step; Akoustic Band; My Spanish Heart; Friends;Three Quartets...

Richard Wright - Wet Dream - Pink's Song

Listening to: 'Post Toastee' from 'Private Eyes' by 'Tommy Bolin' on Media Center 9.0

Damn, I need to find that album! :B

Enigma - Sadness 1 & 2 - mp3

Zee - Confusion (extended mix)

Zee was a project by Richard Wright and Dave Harris. They had only one LP in 84 named "Identity".

Various Artists - Lost Highway - 03 - Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug

found some really old mp3 cds:
music\old_mp3II\Rolling Stones - Anybody seen my baby.mp3 (bitrate = 256 )

smok3-

Just visited your site. XP snapshot of 0.6 fb2k shows Prong featuring Ray Manzarek. What 'kind' of song is this? Rock, blues, etc.

I have a friend who is big fan of Ray. I'm a big fan of Prong. Wondering what the two sound like together.

Listening to: 'Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck' from 'Cleansing' by 'Prong' on Media Center 9.0

i would say its sort of a 'hard rock' B) (album: strange days, date: 1995), also from one of the few soundtracks i play all the time for some reason...
p.s. nope, i didnt see the movie (yet)

Thanks smok3. I'll have to look for this.

You serious?

It's one great MF science fiction flick (although badly dated by their perception of "the future").

Go watch it, ASAP!!!

Just finished Insight Meditation - 01 - Breath Meditation.cda, going on 03 - Meditation on Body Sensations.cda.

Incidentally ...
have been meditating on which codec to best convert these meditation pieces. Instructional voice have to sound like a real person is talking to you & not like a recorded script, the occasional reverberating mellow bell chimes have to sound like it is striked in your presence, over 90% of each pieces is complete & pure silence, & each pieces is about 15-30 mins long.

Can any gurus here enlighten me as to which codec is the most appropriate for those unique characteristics? Size is not much of an issue for me but considering the type of content, an extravagantly high fidelity with huge file-sizes is an unnecessary & sinful waste of bits & storage consciousness, & I'm contemplating either MP3 or Vorbis?

... seeking encoding Nirvana ...

Since you weren't very specific about your exact needs, here are some simple guidelines:

If you want compatibility (lots of hardware/software support), go with MP3.
If you want quality, go with MPC.
If you want a middle road between those, go with AAC.
If you want free licensing/patent free technology and good performance at low bitrates, go with Vorbis.

Listening to: 'L.A. Woman' from 'L. A. Woman' by 'The Doors' on Media Center 9.0

Thanks. I was considering MP3 or Vorbis mainly coz of compatibility reasons. I never leave my house without my Pocket PC & it plays both MP3 & Vorbis, so both are viable formats & both are good enough to give me the sound quality expected for the type of content. So, Vorbis would seemed to be my best bet considering it could do that at smaller file-sizes, although I've really tons of free space on my storage cards (1GB CF & 512MB SD, & more not inserted).

To keep in-topic: Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien - 06 - Hill of the Skull.mp3.

Steely Dan - Two Against Nature (The hole album) CD

O Brother Where Art Thou? - road movie by the coen bros (dvd)

Ulrich Schnauss: Far Away Trains Passing By (02 - Between Us And Them)
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=Ajf8gtq1zpu4a

Infected Mushroom - Converting Vegetarians.mp3

Listening to "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison on RTL Radio. (That's finally a station one can listen to without running away, especially now that they've introduced a completely new programme... not totally good - BBC Radio 2 is still better - but far better than the crap I have to put up with here otherwise...)

AC/DC - 01 - It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll).mpc

Listening to: 'Hard Time Killing Floor Blues' from 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' by 'Various' on Media Center 9.0

This is a pretty good soundtrack.

Firehouse - When I Look Into Your Eyes.mp3

(128kbps MP3, )

Box Car Racer - 11 - The End With You.mpc

(MPC --xtreme, B) )

Boy Hits Car - I'm a Cloud


and listening to a kind of tribute CD...various bluegrass versions of popular artists such as bluegrass versions of Aerosmith, Dave Matthews Band, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc.

Very interesting stuff. Led Zep and Aerosmith's Dream On are interesting with banjos, fiddles, and harmonicas.

Kraftwerk - Tour De France (remix by Francois K.)

Now I'm listening to the Italian rappers Flaminio Maphia. The song is Bada

Bessie Smith (& Clarence Williams - piano) - Down Hearted Blues (1923)

U2 - One

Listening to: 'Don't Drink The Water' from 'Ain't Just Whistlin Dixie' by 'Chain Lightning' on Media Center 9.0

µ-ziq - lunatic harness - 02 - hasty boom alert

Artist: AFI
Song: Girl's Not Grey

Hmmm no more Jpop(Japanese pop) listeners(Artemis3, taz226fr)?

Now: Kahala Tomomi - LOVE BRACE (album version)
minutes ago: Amuro Namie - a walk in the park
Chemistry - Point of no return
Lyrico - True Romance

Listening to Shpongle - Are you Shpongled? cd and to Beth Orton - Central Reservation cd.

On the radio (Radio UNO 100.1 - Corrientes-Argentina) American Life by Madonna

Spock's Beard - The Light

Just finishing Spock's Beard - The Kindness of Strangers followed by Day For Night by Spock's Beard TODAY is a Spock's Beard Day...

...the silence... isn't it sometimes splendid?

It never really gets "silent", just quieter... Real silence isnt so cool because your brain cranks up the gain on your hearing and you can hear blood moving / heart beating

They've just started playing Eurythmics - Must Be Talking To An Angel, reason enough to turn off the radio.

\Marc Cohn - [1991] - Marc Cohn\Marc Cohn - 01 - Walking In Memphis.ogg sounds much better.

Right Now: Toto - Love Songs (the hole album)
Early Tina Turner - Simply The Best (CD)

Die Ärzte - Buddy Holly's Brille, mp3 160kbps @winamp2.81a

Soda Stereo - Doble Vida (Full Album) CD

Spock's Beard - V
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhh....