Neil Young
Optimus Alive!08
Passeio Marítimo de Algés, Oeiras, Portugal
July 12, 2008

Disc 1:
01. Love And Only Love
02. Powderfinger
03. Spirit Road
04. Cortez The Killer
05. Rockin' In The Free World
06. Oh, Lonesome Me
07. Mother Earth
08. The Needle And The Damage Done
09. Unknown Legend
10. Heart Of Gold
11. band introduction
12. Old Man

Disc 2:
01. Get Back To The Country
02. Words
03. No Hidden Path
(encore)
04. A Day In The Life

Band Members
Neil Young - guitar, harmonica, pump organ, vocals
Chad Cromwell - drums
Anthony Crawford - background vocals, piano, guitar, bells
Pegi Young - background vocals, vibraphone, piano, guitar
Rick Rosas - bass
Ben Keith - pedal steel, lap steel, guitar, organ, background vocals
Larry Cragg - banjo

source: soomlos
neumann km140's > lunatec v3 > m-audio mt1 (24/48)

Das Problem:

• Unterstützung: Je unterschiedlicher die Formate sind, in denen die Musik vorliegt, umso enger wird die Auswahl möglicher Wiedergabegeräte.
• Kopierverluste: Um portabel zu sein, wird Musik meist in einem verlustbehafteten Format gespeichert. Wenn nun der Bedarf entsteht, ein anderes, verlustbehaftetes Format zu verwenden, ist das unweigerlich mit einem Qualitätsverlust verbunden.
• Verfügbarkeit: Ist der Codec nicht frei verfügbar, ist man letztendlich auf die Unterstützung des Herstellers angewiesen. Auch wenn es für das gewählte Format momentan keinen Grund zur Sorge gibt, wer garantiert, dass der Hersteller in > 10 Jahren immer noch einen Codec für das verwendete Betriebssystem bereitstellt? Oder ein Player-Hersteller diesen Codec immer noch lizensiert?
• DRM: Besonders prekär ist die Lage bei DRM-geschützten Dateien: Nicht nur, dass alle in Frage kommenden Geräte kompatibel sein müssen, meist ist auch ein Server vonnöten, der die Software authorisiert, die Datei wiederzugeben.

Die sich daraus ergebenden Anforderungen sind also ein freier, verlustfrei komprimierender Codec, der möglichst breit unterstützt wird und hoch genug komprimiert, um die Mitnahme auf üblichen Geräten zu ermöglichen. Mir ist leider kein Codec bekannt, der diese Anforderungen momentan erfüllt.

Meine Lösung sieht deshalb folgendermaßen aus: Ich verwende zwei Formate, die jeweils einen Teil der Anforderungen erfüllen. Die Musik wird zuerst von den Original-Datenträgern in ein freies, verlustfrei, aber dennoch auf ca. 50 % komprimierendes Format gerippt, wofür sich IMO FLAC am besten eignet. Aus diesem Format wird dann eine Kopie in einem Format erstellt, das die Anforderungen "breite Unterstützung" und "hohe Kompression" erfüllt und somit die Wiedergabe auf Standard-Geräten (auch unterwegs) erfüllt, wie momentan z.B. MP3 oder AAC. Nachteile dieser Lösung: Es müssen mehrere Versionen vorgehalten werden, die einerseits zusätzlich Speicherplatz belegen (was in Zeit rapide fallender Massenspeicherpreise weniger das Problem ist), aber andererseits auch synchron gehalten werden wollen, wenn z.B. Änderungen an den Metadaten vorgenommen werden.

Durch das Vorliegen einer vom Original nicht unterscheidbaren Version und den verfügbaren Quellen des Codecs ist es jedenfalls kein Problem, die Musik später in ein neues, ebenfalls verlustfrei komprimierendes Format zu wandeln und ggf. zusätzliche Kopien in anderen Formaten zu erstellen. Auf meiner Agenda steht übrigens ein Skript, welches diese momentan noch manuell durchgeführten Arbeitsschritte automatisiert.

Just as I got done writing about Fedora pissing me off with this, looks like Ubuntu is headed that way.

"Ubuntu informs her about the situation, and offers an easy payment method like PayPal or other micropayment systems for the patents."

Marvelous.

"The patent owners are happy, the user is happy (she lives in legalhood), the broker also can be happy - it is quite reasonable to ask for a small fee for the broker service. Canonical maybe? Or Canonical and others - free market?"

Translation: We'll screw the user over *and* get a cut of it!

"The user can select the formats she thinks will need, and pay the patent royalties through an internet payment service with her credit card. Ubuntu installs the needed libraries with the requested codecs available, others disabled. The patent-broker service pays the royalties to the patent owners, so legal questions are solved. If the user needs other patented codecs to use, she can reconfigure her video editor, and request the needed codecs."

Everytime another random asshole encodes another random file, in another random format, you pay Ubuntu more money.

"See how everyone wins? No?This is something like a "free software legal advisor application" backed up with a network service. In the resulting setup, an Ubuntu user can
1. use free software (as in freedom) on patented algorithms legally
2. fine tune what she pays for."

How about I advise them to sod off? Yes, that works for me!

I do believe I remember Kevin Carmony mentioning that Ubuntu hired some Linspire employees...

This could have something to do with that.
Also remember that Ubuntu is being SOLD at Best Buy for $20 now, how long before they have a "premium" edition with everything for $50 and a braindead "free" edition that can't do much at all?

FLAC comprime en proporción de 1/3, sin perdidas.

MP3 comprime en proporción de 1/10 perdiendo información de forma irreversible.

Utiliza algoritmos obviamente distintos al mp3; mientras que el mp3 descarta información para ocupar un espacio mínimo, FLAC codifica la información usando el algoritmo golomb-rice de forma que silencios y/o sonidos que se repiten son también aprovechados.

FLAC es a menudo usado para hacer copias de CDs, en caso de perdidas del material original.

Deberías darle una oportunidad freak, e irte adentrando a la era de la alta definición, en verdad, si te gusta deleitarte con calidad, veras que FLAC hace que redescubras tu música, a menudo expresando - ¡¡achinggg!!... ese sonido no lo había notado... -, Claro, si tienes un reproductor coby, unas bocinitas pinches o una grabadora de albañil/carpintero - sin agraviar las nobles profesiones - pues no seas marro y comprate un buen equipo.

De rato freaks, les dejo una lista de los players, codificadores, ripeadores y hardware que son compatibles con FLAC:

Codificación [editar]

• Windows
  • Easy Media Creator
  • dBPowerAmp Music Converter(necessari plug-in).
  • Flac Frontend.
  • Easy CD-DA Extractor.
  • MediaMonkey.
  • OmniEncoder
  • Easy CD-DA Extractor
  • Nero Burning ROM con plugin externo
  • Winamp native FLAC support now included
  • JetAudio
  • foobar2000 con plugin
  • Burrn
• Mac OS X
  • Toast Titanium
  • xACT.
  • [1].
• Linux
  • Ffmpeg
  • Audacity
  • VLC
  • GnomeBaker
  • Serpentine
  • K3b

Decodificación [editar]

• Linux
  • Audacious
  • Ffmpeg
  • Audacity
  • Mplayer
  • VLC
  • Songbird.
  • Banshee.
  • Xine.
  • XMMS.
  • GnomeBaker.
  • Totem.
  • MediaPlayerDaemon(mpd).
  • Amarok
  • Rhythmbox.
• Mac OS X
  • Flac-Importer
  • Cog.
  • Play.
  • xACT
  • MacFLAC.
• Windows
  • Windows Media Player
  • foobar2000.
  • Quintessential Player.
  • Renoise.
  • Traktor 3.
  • Winamp.
  • AIMP
  • The KMPlayer
  • ALTools-based ALSong

Ripeo [editar]

• Windows
  • BonkEnc usando la API de FLAC.dll
  • CDex u
  • DBpowerAMP con códec oficial
  • Exact Audio Copy
  • foobar2000
  • MediaMonkey
  • MP3 Stream Editor
  • Winamp
  • PlexTools
• Mac OS X
  • Max — 10.4
• Linux
  • ABCDE
  • Cdda2wav
  • Cdparanoia
  • Mencoder
  • GNOME
    • Grip
    • RipOff
    • Sound Juicer
  • KDE
    • KAudioCreator
    • Konqueror

Soporte Hardware [editar]

• Ipod
• Hermstedt Hifidelio
• iAudio.
• Olive media servers (Symphony, Música, Opus)
• Rio Karma.
• Squeezebox.
• Sonos
• Meizu M6.
• Pixel Magic Systems' HD Mediabox (con un firmware superior a la versión 1.3.4)
• Embedded Waveplayer
• Teclast T29
• Trekstor Vibez.
• gemei x-750

En el sitio oficial de Pearl Jam y a partir de mañana 07/13/08 estaran disponibleas para descargar en formato (mp3) Us$9.99 o (Flac) Us$14.99 el audio de las presentaciones realizadas durante el año en curso.

Powered by Internap (INAP), Pearl Jam's digital bootlegs are high-resolution digital files released without DRM (Digital Rights Management) so that fans can burn them to disc, transfer to them to MP3 players, or play them from their hard drives.

In addition to digital bootlegs, Pearl Jam is launching a new physical CD program for this tour. CDs will be manufactured according to customer demand and will ship within three weeks of each show date. CDs will be made-to-order using recycled material. The price for hard copy bootlegs is $16.99/show and will be available exclusively through www.pearljam.com.

Both the mobile and new burn-to-order CD options are an extension of Pearl Jam’s official bootleg CD program, which was initially launched on the band’s 2000 world tour in an effort to provide fans with high-quality, affordable bootlegs of their lives shows. Since the program’s inception, over 3.5 million bootlegs have been sold.

DATE	CITY/STATE	VENUE	SET LIST	BOOTLEGS
6/11/08	West Palm Beach, FL	Cruzan Amphitheater	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD
6/12/08	Tampa, FL	St. Pete Times Forum	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD
6/14/08	Manchester, TN	Bonnaroo	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD
6/16/08	Columbia, SC	Colonial Center	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD
6/17/08	Virginia Beach, VA	Verizon Amphitheater	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD
6/19/08	Camden, NJ	Susquehanna Bank Center	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD
6/20/08	Camden, NJ	Susquehanna Bank Center	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD
6/22/08	Washington, DC	Verizon Center	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD
6/24/08	New York City, NY	Madison Square Garden	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD
6/25/08	New York City, NY	Madison Square Garden	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD
6/27/08	Hartford, CT	Dodge Music Center	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD
6/28/08	Mansfield, MA	Tweeter Center	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD
6/30/08	Mansfield, MA	Tweeter Center	SETLIST	DOWNLOAD CD

Download bash_audio script

The UI is rather self-explanatory. At present you may batch-convert (by directory or tier of directories) WAV to FLAC, WAV to MP3, WAV to OGG, FLAC to WAV, FLAC to MP3 (preserves tags), FLAC to OGG (preserves tags), MP3 to OGG (preserves tags), and OGG to MP3 (preserves tags). To use the script, you need flac, lame, mp32ogg, mpg123 and oggenc. These can easily be acquired from most *nix repositories.

Basic Instructions

The bash_audio.sh script will write a config file (~/.bconv) on first run, provided the file is not present. All current configuration options are in that file with my current presets. The config can be set in this file manually or in the script, and you can choose whether to read the config file before a batch-convert if you've tweaked something on-the-fly that you don't want in the permanent configuration. There are two sets of variables in ~/.bconv: one for command-line options to the encoding / decoding programs and one for the "root" directories of your music libraries. When you provide directories to the system for batch-conversion (assuming you don't do your whole library at once, which is an option), you just provide the relative path above the library's "root" directory. For example:

My FLAC library is in /media/fatdisk/flac_lib/.

A sample filepath to a tune might be

/media/fatdisk/flac_lib/popular/gray_david/white_ladder/01.please_forgive_me.flac

(lib/genre/artist/album)

So, in ~/.bconv my flac_lib variable is /media/fatdisk/flaclib

And if I want to batch-convert a single album, I tell the script "n" when it asks if I want to copy the whole library, and when it asks for a folder to convert, I tell it something like this:

popular/coldplay/parachutes

If I want to convert all of Coldplay's albums in my library, then I shorten my input:

popular/coldplay

When the script asks you if you want to mirror the directory structure, if you say yes it will do precisely that - that is, mirror the whole tree under the given path from one lib to another. If you don't want that, your other option is to provide a single directory, to which the script will output all converted files. The full path should be given for this directory (i.e. /home/user/audio/stuff).

Suggestions, comments, and constructive criticisms are all welcome. If you know Bash you'll find it easy (I think) to modify the script to suit your needs. I've tried to clean it up a bit so that the entire things doesn't look like 4 AM code. I may not have been successful. In any case, happy encoding. Or decoding.

Neil Young
König-Pilsener-Arena, Oberhausen, Germany
July 9th 2008

Lineage: Sony ECM-121 > iRiver H320 (ROCKboxed) => USB > SoundBlaster X-Fi > Adobe Audition 2.0 > FlacFrontend (level 6 - Align on sector boundaries).
Recording position: Flor, center, 15 m from stage

Setlist:
01. Love And Only Love
02. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
03. Time Fades Away
04. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
05. Spirit Road
06. Dirty Old Man
07. Fuckin' Up
08. All Along The Watchtower
09. Oh, Lonesome Me
10. Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)
11. The Needle And The Damage Done
12. Unknown Legend
13. Heart Of Gold
14. Old Man
15. Get Back To The Country
16. Words (Between The Lines Of Age)
17. No Hidden Path
//
18. A Day In The Life

Total time: 2:11:45

Neil Young - guitar, harmonica, pump organ, vocals
Ben Keith - pedal steel, lap steel, guitar, organ, background vocals
Rick Rosas - bass, background vocals
Chad Cromwell - drums
Pegi Young - background vocals, vibraphone, piano, guitar
Anthony Crawford - background vocals, piano, guitar Larry Cragg - banjo

También hay ya una versión de tbuqsett y otra versión de reelclasio.
Gracias a los tres por el esfuerzo y la calidad que han conseguido.

kebetulan saya baru bertemu dengan teman2 dari Innova Community yang banyak penggila SQ car audio ataupun home audio, dan diberitahu satu CD yang baru dengan label made in germany dan tentunya AUDIOPHILE -menarik bukan?- ditambahdengan harga yang luamyan masuk akal. CD tersebut berjudul EndlessLove IV dengan penyanyi perempuan Yao Si Ting.

coba melakukan ripping ke format -lossless yang katanya terbaik saat ini- yaitu FLAC. karena MAC secara default tidak mendukung saya mendownload software ripper multi codec yaitu MAX 0.8.1 -agak aneh seperti beta software tapi bekerja dengan baik- dan mengintegrasikan kemampuan FLAC ke iTunes dengan FLUKE -lengkapnya ada di link berikut ini: http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/09/20/how-to-play-flac-files-in-itunes/  -

selesai ripping, cukup cepat karena lossless codec, mengkopi ke COWON D2 saya.., memasang earphone Creative EP-630 yang sudah lama selesai burn in dan cukup lentur... pertama kali diputar saya sampai kaget... tidakmenyangka earphone yang saya gunakan selama ini bisa melantunkan nada2 dengan sesigap dan selentur itu... dengan tendangan bassyang sangat2 dalam, tapi tidak mendengung, dan responsif, vocal yang sangat terangkat sempurna, dan treble dari berbagai alat musik string sangat baik diterjemahkan...setting audio saya matikan, dan EQ flat.. hasilnya dashyat tetap detil. desahan vocal yang pas, bass yangimbang, staging yang oke walau kurang ber'lapis' -faktor earphone-, dan treble yang walau agak kering tapi oke... player yang luar biasa mampu memberikan efek 'warm' dari analog... saya sudah mencoba sangat banyak mp3 player yang harganya affordable dengan format suara semua bersumber dari database MP3 saya yang berupa rip CD original dengan codec LAME setting VBR tertinggi.

iseng memainkan file mp3 dari musik2 pop rock yang penuh dengan raungan gitar listrik, betotan bass listrik, dan berisiknya cymbal berpadu dengan gebukan drum, dan teriakan2 vokalis khas rock, hasilnya? walau tidak terdengar sehangat FLAC -ya iyalah- tapi player sanggup memberikan detil ke telinga dengan baik, tidak ada suara berisik karena player salah menterjemahkan cabikan gitar listrik penuh distorsi dengan teriakan2 vokal... sangat mantap... sedikit setting di sana sini dengan feature BBE khas COWON.. hasilnya? sounds never be this good...

memang IEM saya tetap tidak bisa mengalahkan separasi sound dari speaker set 3way dari audio mobil, atau home audio, hanya saya merasakan satu hal penting, COWON D2 adalah luar biasa...

review detil akan saya post segera :)

sekilas tentang cowon D2:

http://www.cowonamerica.com/images/products/d2/cowon_d2/photo/zoom/d2_zoom09.jpg

http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/cowon/d2/tech_specs.html

- Video & Audio Player / FM Tuner / Voice Recorder / Text & Photo Viewer - 2.5 inch 16 million color 24bit TFT-LCD - QVGA (320x240) Touchscreen - SD / SDHC Memory Expansion - Up to 52 hours (Music) of continuous playback (Movie 10 hours)** - DRM-protected content Support (PlaysForSure, etc.)

SPECIFICATIONS

La conversión entre OGG MP3 WAV y FLAC se realiza de forma sencilla en modo gráfico con el Sound Converter:

$ sudo apt-get install soundconverter

El formato origen debe ser cualquier formato que sea capaz de leer la librería Gstreamer.  Para aumentar los tipos de formatos origen hay que instalar las plugins de gstreamer:

$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

Con estas librerías seremos capaces de convertir desde Ogg Vorbis, AAC, MP3, FLAC, WAV, AVI, MPEG, MOV, M4A, AC3, DTS, ALAC, MPC, Shorten, APE y SID.

Pero si ya queremos utilizar los formatos APE y MP4 (M4A ó ACC) como formato de salida, la cosa se complica. Para estas tareas vamos a utilizar Gnormalize, un programa bastante completo que nos permite ripear con soporte CDDB, reproducir y convertir entre los distintos formatos con la opción de normalizar (aumentar volumen al máximo).

Instalamos el paquete del Monkey’s Audio para Debian para poder codificar en formato APE.

$ sudo dpkg -i mac-3.99-u4_b3-1_i386.deb

Instalamos todos los codecs y players que Gnormalize necesita:

$ sudo apt-get install flac faac faad lame mpg123 mpg321 madplay mplayer vorbis-tools

Descargamos Gnormalize de aquí
Descomprimimos e instalamos gnormalize

$ sudo ./install

Contestamos a la mayoría de preguntas que no, ya que los codecs los hemos instalado previamente, aunque nos puede interesar instalar Audio-CD, CDDB-get, MP3 info y WaveGain si tenemos pensado normalizar o obtener los títulos de las canciones mediante CDDB.
Ejecutamos gnormalize:

$ gnormalize

La ventana de estado debe mostrar el texto "gnormalize (version)", de otro modo nos avisará de que faltan algunos paquetes y alguna funcionalidad no estará disponible.

Ya sólo falta, desde la pestaña DATA, seleccionar el directorio de entrada, el de salida y el formato de salida (MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, APE, FLAC o WAV). Gnormalize nos convertirá todos los archivos compatibles que encuentre en el directorio al formato de salida seleccionado. Recordad que los AAC son lo mismo que los M4A y que los MP4 audio, así que sólo hay que cambiarles la extensión en caso de que nuestro reproductor MP3 o iPod externo lo requiera.

• Nouveau bootleg : Rome VPRO Rebroadcast (Pink Floyd, 1968)
• Nouvelle version FLAC d'Elysées Floyd (Pink Floyd, 1970)
• Nouveau bootleg : Syd Barrett's Last Gig (1970)
• Nouveau bootleg : Amsterdam LP Remaster (Pink Floyd, 1971) - must have !
• Nouveau bootleg : Amsterdam Free Concert (Pink Floyd, 1971)
• Nouveau bootleg : Versailles 88 (Pink Floyd, 1988)
• Ajout du CD 2 des BBC Archives 1970-1971 (Pink Floyd, 1970 et 1971)
  
• Upload de Cruel But Fair (Pink Floyd, 1975)
• Remise en ligne d'Echoes by the Lake (Pink Floyd, 1975)
• Nouveau bootleg : Animals Tour Debut (Pink Floyd, 1977)
• Remise en ligne des CD 2 et 3 de La Claque! (David Gilmour, 2006)

La majorité des bootlegs ont été uploadés par Roger Keith, thanx !

MP3, WMA and AAC files are so compressed that you're likely losing 75-90 percent of the quality of the master tracks. (Kind of like pissing on a Picasso.) Like many of you, for years I was perfectly content with my MP3 files on my 2-channel stereo system while I was doing my homework, or (more likely) playing video games or glued to the computer. It was when I got older and obtained this wonderful thing called income, with which I could invest in a 5.1 channel surround system that I started to wonder why this sounded so weak.

Nowadays, it's rare to open a copy of Rolling Stone and not see a quote from a legendary record producer stating how much we are cheating ourselves with this compression. It's gotten so bad in fact, that several producers don't even attempt to perfect the sound of their albums as much as they once did because they know how few ears the master tracks will actually reach, and worse, the fraction of those that will notice the difference. Thankfully for those of us that some may call audiophiles, (although to refer to myself as such is probably an insult to the term) there is still hope. All it takes is a little extra hard drive space, a little extra time and probably (the point where most people will stop reading) a little money.

Lossless encoding is the only way to get close to the artists intended sound in digital form. Apple and Microsoft both have their hands in the lossless game (Apple Lossless Audio Codec or ALAC, which you can compress to and play on iTunes and WMA Lossless, accessible via the Zune software) and even Sony's in on it (ATRAC Advanced Lossless) but most hardcore audiophile blogs warn you to stay away from these in favor of open source codecs such as FLAC, which cannot be played in iTunes or Zune (I use Songbird). I personally can't tell a difference and I wonder if the preference has more to due with anti-corporate sentiment than actual sound quality, but I could be wrong.

There are several major drawbacks to lossless codecs, beginning with compatibility. Each codec can only be played using their respective encoders programs and hardware (unless you use Songbird or a few other open source programs) and to my knowledge there is yet to be a universal lossless codec that will play on anything. The second drawback is drive space. No matter which codec you choose, they all take up considerably more space than MP3, AAC or WMA files. Third is availability. If you're so inclined, you could search for torrent files of albums in these codecs, (which are few and far between, not that I look much...) but the safest and most available route is to buy the CD and rip it in your desired codec. Which of course, isn't free.

Just like every other choice in life, this is simply a question of priority. And my personal opinion is that the majority of people who like dabble in the dark arts of digital music collecting aren't bothered by the loss of quality and would rather miss out on the subtle, yet beautiful nuances heard in a master copy of Radiohead's "Pyramid Song". The music business has yet to find a way to recover from the financial damages caused by the digital music revolution, but I think their day will come. The art of music production however, may never be the same again.

Announcing my macbook pro

Which i still don't have :(

Despite this i have decided to create a new page on my blog called "my mac experince" which will cover my transfer from a toshiba laptop running XP to a Lovely New Apple Macbook Pro 15". The First thing i plan to write about is the unboxing of the computer because from what i have heard apple do a damm good job at boxing their computers as i first found out with my first ipod so stay tuned for that, hopefully the computer will arrive some time this week coming up *cross fingers*

Free Music

just browsing around and i came across the "nine inch nails" website today, nine inch nails or "nin" are a widely known popular rock group that offer their recent albums in garage band format and easy download format. WHAT DID HE SAY?

yes, easy download format RIGHT OF THEIR WEBSITE i don't understand the reasoning behind it but the moment i get my internet speed back im downloading everything i can because i like nine inch nails. Most of you might not have heard of them but you will have heard their music most likely the movie "fight club" used one of their songs as their opening.

so check out their website

Is anyone else having playback problems with iTunes? Do a search on Google, and you'll find the answer to be "Hell YEAH!" I'm a big supporter of Apple products and services, but I'm also a fan of options in all facets of my life, especially with media. It all started a few months back while reading an article in Rolling Stone about someone (or someones..) who had become fed up with the poor audio quality of Beatles CD's and decided to rip FLAC files to their computer from their collection of pristine Beatles vinyl.

To make a very long story short, they put the files on the internet so other people could get them (search "Purple Chick Megaupload") and I went after it. I didn't know what a FLAC file was at the time, but I did know iTunes wouldn't play it, so I had to find something that would. In enters Songbird, an open-source media players from some of the guys who made Winamp and the Yahoo Music Engine. It not only handles FLAC files but also MP3 (of course), AAC, WMA, AIFF, MIDI, Apple Lossless, yadda yadda plus files with that pesky DRM crap. And the really great advantage is that since it's open-source, it's cross platform and developer friendly (not to mention free of course) and there are a plethora of extensions you can download to make it even cooler.

There's an extension to display your album art much in the same way iTunes Cover Flow does, you can scrobble your tracks to Last.fm (if your cool like me) and you can even download an extension that imports your entire iTunes library into Songbird. It doesn't play video, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

It's also visually customizable, with a variety of great skins. You can even make it look exacltly like iTunes if you so choose. There's a built in web browser, eMusic compatibility (via another extension) and you can even search for DRM-free MP3's with the SkreemR shortcut/bookmark on the sidebar.

Songbird is a great program for open-source purists and the anti-corprate big business haters out there who would rather throw their grandma in front of a train than download anything from Apple or Microsoft. (I love my grandma dearly and always protect her from trains, but a small part of me is with you.) It also seems to correct the skipping problem a lot of my tracks seem to be having in iTunes as of late. (The point at meant to get to in the opening.)

Check it out, (most of you probably have) if you hate it, its not like you paid for it.

The good news is that, for an aspiring audiophile, EAC runs under WINE in Linux Mint (rel. 5) with no trouble. You can read a pretty concise formulation of the procedure required to make it happen here. That's the first route I went. It wasn't particularly easy from there.

See, I'm one of those wierdos who regularly keeps digital music in more than one format. I prefer "lossless" files, but the portable music players available to me (and my car CD player, that reads MP3) won't play those. Not to mention that they're bigger than lossy files. For this reason, I must have at least two formats available. My practice up to the present has been to keep FLAC on hand for home listening, MP3 for comparatively high-quality listening with devices that read no other format, and ogg for maximum compression with devices that can use it. (I do prefer to use free software and open standards whenever possible.) Properly speaking, then, I have three music libraries to manage. And I have a lot of music.

After some experimentation, I discovered that the familiar batch conversion tools that I intended to use in order to keep all these libraries straight (especially tagging in all those formats) would have to run through EAC. Those tools (WinXP versions) were a lot fussier in WINE. It's important to understand that I was trying to avoid, at all costs, the need to write a bunch of file- and filename-conversion scripts. Originally I began ripping the discs in EAC and pulling the raw .wavs over into Sound Converter. I quickly realized that Sound Converter didn't give me the flexiblity over the command-line encoding options that I needed, so that plan was out. I further realized that no tagging was being preserved in the EAC -> Sound Converter process, so I implemented a third step and a third piece of software, EasyTag, to (hopefully) pull info from CDDB. By this time, managing the directory structure and file info in just one format was a hassle. What's more, I could see I'd need to add another software step or two before it was a working chain. I dropped back to punt.

I thought, "Surely there's an easier way." There is. But it doesn't involve EAC at all, and that kept me from using it for a while. When I finally gave in it was a good day. The piece of sofware that will do it all for you (with most of the tweaks you want) is called grip. Grip works, and I'm glad. It uses cdparanoia to rip discs, unless you tell it to use another program, and that's fine with me. As far as I can tell, comparing rip-for-rip with EAC, cdparanoia makes a really accurate copy (provided your drive doesn't cache). In fact, you can tell cdparanoia to be stupidly accurate if you want. Grip encodes to FLAC, mp3, ogg, aac, and more, and it gives you full control over the encoding options. I just realized that I'm sounding like an ad for grip, which isn't intentional, but it's really so much better and easier - even easier than what I was doing in Windows. At least, it's easier while managing one format library at a time, which is what most sensible people do. With grip, once your "config" tabs are set up, you can reduce the whole process to a few clicks per CD (or less) and a sanity check on the autotagging. Grip creates linux-friendly filenames for your tracks and automatically puts audio files into a reasonable directory structure, which you have control over through tag editing prior to ripping. What a great idea.

Now I've arrived at the final juncture of library organization #1 much faster than I had hoped as a result of both grip and amaroK, a fully-featured and functional software jukebox (that's the fastest description I could concoct). But I'm still going to have to do at least one of the things I was originally trying to avoid: write a script to convert the FLAC library I have been recording to both MP3 and ogg, keeping the directory structure intact. Oh well. Some things can't be avoided. Unless there's an approach out there that hasn't turned up under any of my query strings. In any case, at least I can listen to a shuffled version of my entire lossless music collection while I write the script...

[ Note: if you didn't do a good job with your directory structure, amaroK will fix it all up for you (that's putting it lightly) with the "Manage Files..." --> "Organize Files..." command in the right-click menu. But beware running that command on your whole collection. It blows your CPU to bits. (Yes, intended.) ]

Girl Talk's new album Feed The Animals is now available for download at the Illegal Art website. You can pay literally nothing to download it in 320 kbps mp3 format, and if you opt to pay $10 or more, you get a CD copy when Feed The Animals is released to retail on September 23rd. A contribution of $5 or more gets you the album in FLAC version.

Download Girl Talk's Feed The Animals [Illegal Art]

Este año le ha tocado el turno al número 8, ha durado 3 días y ha estado repleto de actuaciones de los propios rusties y de grupos afines. Y como muchos de ellos son grandes usuarios de las redes p2p, han tenido el detallazo de regalarnos a ti y a mí sus canciones.

Si andas por esta playa, esto es lo que puedes encontrar:

Johnny Yuma & Lazy Buffalo
8th German Neil Young Camp
Schafstall in Amelinghausen, Germany
June 13th 2008
www.neilyoung-camp.de

Lineage: SBD => iRIVER H320 (ROCKboxed) => USB => SoundBlaster X-Fi => Adobe Audition 2.0 => Wav => FlacFrontend (level 6 - Align on sector boundaries)

1st set:
01. intro (Jürgen Koeslin)
02. Piece Of Crap
03. I'm The Ocean
04. Downtown
05. Ordinary People
06. Get Back On It
07. Mansion On The Hill
08. Love And Only Love

2nd set:
01. T-Bone
02. Down By The River
03. Like A Hurricane
04. Rockin' In The Free World
05. Fuckin' Up
06. Cortez The Killer

Lazy Buffalo:
Stefan Stademann - bass, background vocals
Georg Pflaum - guitars, background vocals
Guido Rieming - drums
Johnny Yuma - guitars, vocals
www.lazybuffalo.com

Unknown Legends
8th German Neil Young Camp
Schafstall in Amelinghausen, Germany
June 13th 2008
www.neilyoung-camp.de

Lineage: SBD => iRIVER H320 (ROCKboxed) => USB => SoundBlaster X-Fi => Adobe Audition 2.0 => Wav => FlacFrontend (level 6 - Align on sector boundaries)

01. intro (Jürgen Koeslin)
02. Thrasher
03. Barstool Blues
04. Eldorado
05. Interstate
06. The Revelator
07. Out On The Weekend
08. Powderfinger
09. Ft. Worth Blues
10. I'm The Ocean

Unknown Legends:
Antje - guitar, vocal
Mike - guitar

Philip Bölter & Purple Rain
8th German Neil Young Camp
Schafstall in Amelinghausen, Germany
June 14th 2008
www.neilyoung-camp.de

Lineage: SBD => iRIVER H320 (ROCKboxed) => USB => SoundBlaster X-Fi => Adobe Audition 2.0 => Wav => FlacFrontend (level 6 - Align on sector boundaries)

01. intro (Jürgen Koeslin)
02. Old Man
03. Big City
04. Long May You Run
05. Ocean
06. Heart Of Gold
07. Mansion On The Hill
08. Ohio
09. Opera Bird
10. Shots
11. Eagles In The Night
12. Down By The River

Philip Bölter & Purple Rain:
Philip Bölter – guitar, vocals
Florian Bölter - bass
Marc Beier - drums
Christina "Tinchen" Müller - vocals
www.philip-boelter.de
www.myspace.com/purplerainband

Bozz Rock Band
8th German Neil Young Camp
Schafstall in Amelinghausen, Germany
June 14th 2008
www.neilyoung-camp.de

Lineage: SBD => iRIVER H320 (ROCKboxed) => USB => SoundBlaster X-Fi => Adobe Audition 2.0 => Wav => FlacFrontend (level 6 - Align on sector boundaries)

01. intro (Jürgen Koeslin)
02. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
03. Throw Your Hatred Down
04. Pocahontas
05. Mansion On The Hill
06. Darkness All Around Me
07. Vicious Circle
08. Stadt Im Regen
09. Cortez The Killer
10. After Berlin
11. Words (Between The Line Of Age)
12. Green Archer
13. Like A Hurricane

Bonus:
soundcheck:
01. After Berlin
02. Tuning and fragments
03. After Berlin
04. After Berlin
05. After Berlin
06. Be The Rain
07. Tuning and fragments
08. Green Archer
09. After Berlin

Bozz Rock Band:
Thomas (Schlagzeug + Vocals)
Roland (Leadgitarre + Vocals)
Stefan (Rhytmusgitarre)
Friedemann (Bassgitarre)
www.bozzrockband.de

Daniel Denecke
8th German Neil Young Camp
Schafstall in Amelinghausen, Germany
June 14th 2008
www.neilyoung-camp.de

Lineage: SBD => iRIVER H320 (ROCKboxed) => USB => SoundBlaster X-Fi => Adobe Audition 2.0 => Wav => FlacFrontend (level 6 - Align on sector boundaries)

01. intro (Jürgen Koeslin)
02. Talk, Talk, Talk
03. Let's Stop The Rain

Daniel Denecke - guitar, vocal
www.danieldenecke.com

Campaigner
8th German Neil Young Camp
Schafstall in Amelinghausen, Germany
June 14th 2008
www.neilyoung-camp.de

Lineage: SBD => iRIVER H320 (ROCKboxed) => USB => SoundBlaster X-Fi => Adobe Audition 2.0 => WAv => FlacFrontend (level 6 - Align on sector boundaries)

01. intro (Jürgen Koeslin)
02. Lookin' For A Leader
03. Southern Man
04. Cinnamon Girl
05. Powderfinger
06. Shock And Awe
07. Tonight's The Night
08. Don't Cry No Tears
09. Throw Your Hatred Down
10. Motorcycle Mama
11. Ohio
12. Mansion On The Hill
13. Fuckin' Up
14. The Loner
15. Rockin' In The Free World

Campaigner:
Robert Oberhardt - Gitarre, Gesang
David Kewitz - Schlagzeug
Axel Hahn - Gitarre, Gesang
Detlef (Keuschlinde) Lenz - Bassgitarre, Gitarre, Gesang
Nadine - Background Gesang
www.campaigner-home.de

Change Partners
8th German Neil Young Camp
Schafstall in Amelinghausen, Germany
June 14th 2008
www.neilyoung-camp.de

Lineage: SBD => iRIVER H320 (ROCKboxed) => USB => SoundBlaster X-Fi => Adobe Audition 2.0 => Wav => FlacFrontend (level 6 - Align on sector boundaries)

01. intro (Jürgen Koeslin)
02. Love The One You're With
03. Teach Your Children
04. For What It's Worth
05. Chicago
06. Our House
07. Let's Roll
08. Out On The Weekend
09. Long Time Gone
10. Blackbird
11. This Old House
12. Change Partners
13. Marrakesh Express
14. The Lee Shore
15. Comes A Time
16. Almost Cut My Hair
17. Little Blind Fish
18. Cathedral
19. Helpless
20. Looking Forward
21. On The Way Home
22. Rockin' In The Free World
23. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
24. Daylight Again / Find The Cost Of Freedom

Change Partners:
André Huk
René Sahin
Uwe Johannes
www.changepartners.de

Comments:
Since the first Neil Young Camp in Norderbrarup back in 1994, the event has returned every second year. Nice people and fine music - mainly Neil Young covers.
This year I recorded most of the acts and promised to share the recordings.
Thanks to Milan for the sbd-feed, to the bands for allowing to tape, to Jürgen for organizing this camp - and to Klaus and Rüdiger for initializing the idea and organizing the first two camps back in 1994 and 1996.Comments:
Since the first Neil Young Camp in Norderbrarup back in 1994, the event has returned every second year. Nice people and fine music - mainly Neil Young covers.
This year I recorded most of the acts and promised to share the recordings.
Thanks to Milan for the sbd-feed, to the bands for allowing to tape, to Jürgen for organizing this camp - and to Klaus and Rüdiger for initializing the idea and organizing the first two camps back in 1994 and 1996.

París, 14 de Febrero

Neil Young
Feb. 14, 2008, Le Grand Rex, Paris, France
With the Chrome Dreams Band
Crystal Cat boot
Superb audience recording
Silver CDs > EAC > wav > FLAC 8
Front and back artwork is included

Enjoy,
Clyde the Camel

DISC ONE
1 Intro
2 From Hank to Hendrix
3 Ambulance Blues
4 Sad Movies
5 A Man Needs a Maid
6 No One Seems to Know
7 Harvest
8 Journey Through the Past
9 Mellow My Mind
10 Love Art Blues
11 Don't Let It Bring You Down
12 Cowgirl in the Sand
13 Out on the Weekend
14 Separate Ways *
15 Kansas **
16 Stringman **

* Feb. 22, 2008, Vienna, Austria
** Feb. 18, 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands

DISC TWO
1 Mr. Soul
2 Don't Cry No Tears
3 Dirty Old Man
4 Spirit Road
5 Bad Fog of Loneliness
6 Winterlong
7 Oh, Lonesome Me
8 The Believer
9 No Hidden Path
10 Cinnamon Girl
11 Like a Hurricane

París, 15 de Febrero

Neil Young
Feb. 15, 2008, Le Grand Rex, Paris, France
Witn the Chrome Dreams Band
Crystal Cat boot
Superb audience recording
Silver CDs > EAC > wav > FLAC 8
Front and back artwork is included. I also included two pages from the booklet, one of them so you can see the "Sultan" guy in his costume with his gong. I've heard it described, but before this I could only imagine what it looked like. The original CD has a long section of "Greensleeves" being played over the PA after the show. I don't know if this is an official release, so to be on the safe side I cut it out.
Does anyone know if this is a recording of Neil playing this instrumental, and whether it's released somewhere?

Enjoy,
Clyde the Camel

DISC ONE (Opening set by Pegi Young)
1 Shine On Shine On
2 Heterosexual Masses
3 When the Wildlife Betrays Me
4 Sometimes
5 Sometimes Like a River (Loving You)
6 Starting Over
7 Love Like Water
8 Number Nine
9 Wrestle Awhile

DISC TWO
1 Introduction
2 From Hank to Hendrix
3 Ambulance Blues
4 Sad Movies
5 A Man Needs a Maid
6 No One Seems to Know
7 Try
8 Harvest
9 After the Gold Rush
10 Mellow My Mind
11 Love Art Blues
12 The Needle and the Damage Done
13 Heart of Gold
14 Love in Mind *
15 Old King *
16 Campaigner *
17 Old Man *

* Feb. 20, 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands

DISC THREE
1 Mr. Soul
2 Don't Cry No Tears
3 Dirty Old Man
4 Spirit Road
5 Bad Fog Of Loneliness
6 Winterlong
7 Oh, Lonesome Me
8 The Believer
9 No Hidden Path
10 Cinnamon Girl
11 Rockin' In The Free World
12 The Sultan

Tour: 2008 European Chrome Dreams Continental Tour
Band:
Neil Young - guitar, guitjo, harmonica, piano, vocals
Ben Keith - pedal steel, lap steel, guitar, organ, background vocals
Rick Rosas - bass, background vocals
Ralph Molina - drums, background vocals
Pegi Young - background vocals, vibraphone, guitar
Anthony Crawford - background vocals, piano, guitar
Cary Kemp - gong on The Sultan

Al parecer, el concierto del día 15 tenía en la última pista una versión de Greensleeves, pero ante la duda de que fuera una versión editada comercialmente, ha sido suprimida del torrente. En el tracker hay un interesante "posteo" sobre el posible origen del tema.

Neil Young & Carzy Horse
Palau dels Esports de Montjuïc,
Barcelona,Catalonia,Spain

24-04-1987

Source: audience
Quality:8.5
Lenght:116 min
Lineage:2nd generation analog tape,copie from the original master tape

Set list:

cd 1
1 Mr.Soul
2 Cinnamon Girl
3 When You Dance,I Can Really Love
4 Down By The River
5 Heart Of Gold
6 After The Golddrush
7 Inca Queen
8 Drive Back
9 Opera Star
10 Cortez The Killer
11 Sugar Mountain
12 Mideast Vacation
13 Long Walk Home

cd 2
14 The Needle And the Damage Done
15 When Your Lonely Heart Breaks
16 Powderfinger
17 Like A Hurricane
18 band speach
19 Hey Hey,My My

Band:
Neil Young:vocals,guitar,keyboards,banjo,harmonica
Frank Sampedro:guitar,keyboards,vocals
Billy Talbot:bass,vocals
Ralph Molina:drums,vocals

Tour:1987 European Tour with Crazy Horse

Te conviene pillarlo. Es uno de los 6 (7 si el clima no lo impide) conciertos que Neil Young ha dado por estas tierras. Gracias a Toni, está en Dime A Dozen.

Ariado Player

This software is a little music player allowing you to listen to music while being on a computer. Light and very portable, it runs on Linux, BSD, Mac and Windows download here ...

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Aqualung

(my favorite from this list) Advanced music player for GNU/Linux, also running on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Microsoft Windows. Plays audio CDs, internet radio streams, podcasts and soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks. download here ...

Gimmix

Graphical music player daemon (MPD) client written in C using GTK+2. Gimmix is very simple and easy to use, yet offers many features to make your audio experience a pleasant one. Gimmix main features are: Simple and Clean Interface; Compact and full view modes; Library Browser; Library search; Playlist management; ID3v2 Tag editing support; Support for controlling gimmix. download here ...

MoreAmp

Audio player, transcoder and cd ripper for Mac OS X, OS 9, Windows, Unix, and Linux. Plays and creates ogg, flac, mp3, aac, m4a, mp4, wav, and aif, and plays wma. 31-band equalizer, repeat loop, variable pitch/tempo, ram or ramdisk preload. download here ...

reBMP

REturn of the Beep Media Player ! Key words: Linux, cue, ape, flac, lyrics. it bases on the beepmp-0.9.7.1, and i hacked some code, it now natively supports APE, FLAC with cuesheet list. Added a lyric panel to show lyrics when playing. Enjoy yourself mus. download here ...

Sonic-Rainbow

Linux GUI Multimedia Player that provides a CD Player, DVD Player, CD Ripper, Ogg Player, MP3 Player, CD Ripper, Sound Mixer, MP3 and Ogg file TAG editor enables the creation and modification of file TAGS. Utilises CDDB HTTP to download CD information and Tag Ogg and MP3 files as it rips them. Maintains CDDB information locally and displays it when playing CD's. download here ...

If you know other players that could be listed here, please comment ...

I have to wait 84 minutes though to download it, cuz I just downloaded some super rare German Jazz album (curious to hear that little nugget).

Check it and if you use it, come back and let us know what you think!

MediaMonkey is a music manager and media jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. It catalogs your CDs, OGG, WMA, MPC, FLAC, APE, WAV and MP3 audio files. It looks up missing Album Art and track information via Freedb and the web, and includes an intelligent tag editor and an automated file and directory renamer to organize your music library. It includes a CD ripper, CD/DVD Burner, and audio converter for saving music, and manual or automated playlist editors for creating music mixes. Its player automatically adjusts volume levels so that you don't have continually fiddle with the volume control and supports hundreds of Winamp plug-ins and visualizations; or if you prefer, it can use Winamp as the default player.It also includes portable audio device synchronization that allows you to synch tracks and play lists with devices such as the iPod and other portable audio devices.

Download it here: (with crack): softarchive.net/mediamonkey_gold

via The Mixdiggerz.

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Jamie Lidell
Bimbo's 365 Club
San Francisco, California
May 28, 2008

source: SP-CMC-20>SP-SPSB-9>Edirol R-09
location: floor,center, mics clipped to glasses
conversion: R09>CD Wave>FLAC Frontend
taper: T&Jam (tandjam@hotmail.com)

Hear samples in my recap post: Here.

Disc 1

1. Another Day
2. Figured Me Out
3. Out of my system>The City
4. ?? Unknown…freestyle spacey techno jam thing…?
5. A Little Bit More
6. Little Bit of Feel Good

Disc 2

1. Banter>Green Light
2. Where’d You Go?
3. Wait For Me
4. --audience calling for the encore—
5. Game For Fools
6. Multiply

Download FLAC files Here.

Download MP3's Here.

Is this a big deal? To people with perfect pitch and incredible ears yes. To people with everyday hearing who just want to hear a good song that is audible (the majority of the world), no. Right now most portable devices do not support FLAC so there is no need to worry. It is just something I want to make my readers aware of.

New music formats are constantly being developed. However, that does not necessarily mean that technology can support the format. A great example of this is Windows' new operating system Vista. Vista sucks up a lot more RAM and processing power than it's predecessor Windows XP. Most computers made prior to Vista are not powerful enough to support Vista. On the same note ipods and other Mp3 players cannot support FLAC.

So where does this leave you? Just make a mental note for now. As FLAC becomes more popular you will starting seeing it on the news or in commercials. Thus far Apple, Dell, and Sony have not released FLAC players so no worries. If they do, check with the online retailers who distribute your music (like itunes) to see if they are offering your music in FLAC. More than likely they would notify you via email.

By Jamille Luney
Music Analyst