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Sunday, April 24, 2005 |
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| Topics for Sunday, April 24, 2005 1. Blowing My Top at Ian Lovell!! - Woodhouse, Mark 2. The River Sessions - Winston Walker 3. www.ipodlounge.com - Winston Walker 4. Victor/iPod - DonZipf @ aol.com 5. Level 27? - Colinsladden @ aol.com 6. mp3 players, file formats - Matt Rice |
| 1. Blowing My Top at Ian Lovell!! |
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| From: | Woodhouse, Mark <Mark.Woodhouse @ pfizer.com> |
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| Date: | Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:33:40 -0400 |
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| Only joking Ian. I think that your observations around the pressure & scrutiny on Lyndon in "Level 42 mode" as opposed to "Go West mode" are absolutely spot on. Out of interest, on the night did the bass player nail the riff at the beginning of "Don't Look Down" as well as it's done on record or Mark King did at The Princes Trust gig? I am truly a king amongst nit-pickers! Oh and Go West's guitarist is a bona fide Axe God. Cheers, Mark --------------------------------------------------------------- LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this e-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorised and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately. Pfizer Limited is registered in England under No. 526209 with its registered office at Ramsgate Road, Sandwich, Kent CT13 9NJ | ||
| 2. The River Sessions |
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| From: | Winston Walker <winman42 @ comcast.net> |
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| Date: | Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:40:42 -0400 |
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| This is what it says about the 'River Sessions' on www.forevernow.com: Established in 2003 River Records is a new company set up to exclusively manage Scottish Radio Holdings’ music archive. Recorded by the original Radio Clyde Mobile Studio and Radio Forth’s Sound House, the archive holds over 600 top quality live concert recordings and unique studio sessions dating from the mid - 70's up to the present day. The Recording Venues include the legendary Glasgow Apollo Theatre and Barrowland Ballroom, as well as Edinburgh’s Playhouse Theatre and Usher Hall. Archive Artists include U2, Madness, Radiohead, Rory Gallagher, Average White Band, Nazareth, Roxy Music, Sammy Hagar, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Thin Lizzy, Alice Cooper, Rod Stewart and many more. The Label is presently working with Artists, Managers, Record Companies and Music Publishers in order to bring this wealth of extraordinary musical performances to the public | ||
| 3. www.ipodlounge.com |
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| From: | Winston Walker <winman42 @ comcast.net> |
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| Date: | Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:47:50 -0400 |
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| ipodlounge is a very good source of info for any opod user...the following comes from their FAQ: I listen to a lot of DJ Mix CDs that don't have gaps between the tracks. The gaps you are hearing are actually a function of MP3 technology. Some other MP3 players work around this issue by doing cross-fades between songs or compressing the MP3 headers to decrease the gaps to something that is barely distinguishable. However, this is not done on the iPod. Currently, the only way to prevent this from happening is to record these CDs as one giant MP3 file. iTunes has this option available. MMJB does not, however there are other Windows programs that do. Check out the Software Compendium for a list of good Ripping/Encoding programs. Hope this helps, Winston | ||
| 4. Victor/iPod |
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| From: | DonZipf @ aol.com <DonZipf @ aol.com> |
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| Date: | Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:11:21 EDT |
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| Lolita wrote: > Okay, I solved the mystery of the CDs. It turns out the Victor Wooten CD that Winston referred > to has actually been in the works for years - Christian told me he recorded his part of it three > years ago! The CD I was referring to is indeed coming out later this year, and that is a jazz CD > that has a plethora of bass players on it. The release date is supposed to be this summer; when > I hear what it is I will let you know. Lo, didn't Victor just release a new CD the other day, called SOUL CIRCUS? What up with that? Winston wrote: > Well, i've never tried the aac format, but mp3 works fine for me, at 160kps. Dan wrote: > I can't really complain about mp3 sound quality. I'm ripping at 192kbs and I don't notice any artifacting. > Even the stuff I have laying around at 160 sounds great to me (and I know my ears aren't *that* bad - lol). See, you guys are having to crank up the bit-rate to get decent sound quality. I rip AAC files at only128kps! > iTunes will let you cross-fade, and by ripping tracks into AAC format (MP3 doesn't do mixed > tracks very well), you can play them through it, but the iPod will always have a slight gap. Then I stand corrected on that point. Althogh I have burned numerous live CD's from iTunes with no gaps, I guess I hadn't really tried it on the iPod itself. Hmm. Z | ||
| 5. Level 27? |
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| From: | Colinsladden @ aol.com <Colinsladden @ aol.com> |
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| Date: | Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:05:08 EDT |
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Hi All
I was walking through Romford market in Essex, UK today when I saw someone
walking with a leather jacket on with 'LEVEL 27
Clothing' on the back, any one heard of this? Also is there a
connection between the LFT track Shapeshifter and the recent band called
Shapeshifters.
Colin
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| 6. mp3 players, file formats |
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| From: | Matt Rice <rice @ geog.ucsb.edu> |
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| Date: | Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:26:43 -0700 |
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| Along with the listening issue, one of my reasons for ripping tracks off CDs is to create a backup/archive copy of the tracks in case the CD gets scratched, lost, or stolen. The tracks sit on an external hard disk drive (about 60 Gb for my collection), in mp3 @ 192kbps. I think what I may actually do (since storage space is getting so cheap) is to re-rip the tracks in the flac format Dan James mentioned or just as giant .wav files so that there is no loss whatsoever in terms of fidelity. For portability, I carry my favoriate tracks around on flash memory cards (2.5 Gb on 4 cards) that snap inside the case of my PDA. I play the tracks on my Zire 71 PDA, which is damn convenient since I use the PDA for everything else. The only drawback is that I lose a little bit of the low end (<120Hz) with playback throught he Zire 71, and the volume adjustment is poor, i.e., not loud enough. Overall, using the PDA for my playback instead of an iPod has worked very well because I have it with my all the time anyway, and it does a decent job handling playlists and so forth. One feature I wish the PDA software player had was the ability to do real-time volume leveling. Anyone use a PalmOne PDA for mp3 playback with software that does real-time volume leveling? On another note, I have been around here since the very early days (sometime in 94 or early 95). This digest was my first big Internet community. This was a very exciting time for me and many others here because of the excitement and possibilities associated with the Internet, mixed with a bit of discussion about Level 42. One of the great parts of the early digest (94-98) was the never-ending talk and excitement about new technology. The last week's threads (re: mp3 players) has brought back a lot of fond memories about the early days. -- Matt Rice, Doctoral Candidate and Research Assistant National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis UCSB Department of Geography +1 805 893 8652 (phone) Santa Barbara, CA 93106 +1 805 893 8617 (fax) rice @ geog.ucsb.edu http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~rice |
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