Level 42 Digest for Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Hi all

I have an appeal from Bluey (Incognito) of the Hope Collective and worthy it is to!
You may already know that after the Tsunami disaster Bluey decided to set up a fast yet affective way of raising funds for the people who lost homes aswell as families that are still without basic amenities such as fresh water, shelter and life in general.
Well with help from many of his friends in the music industry, the Hope Collective was set up in not only helping raising money for the Asian basin but also to help those affected by famine in the Darfur region of Sudan and Playing Alive, a charity set up to help people was set up.
Please do check out the website as well as donate and buy the single from http://www.expansionrecords.com aswell as check out the official website of the Hope Collective at http://www.giveandletlive.com
There was official release for this single a couple of weeks ago that went really well and the artists involved all clubbed together to create an autographed Hope Collective photo album which can be found on Ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2328&item=7509621005&rd= 1
100% of all the funds raised will go to helping those less fortunate than us.
Please do be generous and please also watch the video of the guys recording the single which features many artists such as Chaka Khan, Jocelyn Brown, Steve Winwood, Maysa, Amp Fiddler, Carleen Anderson, Maxi Jazz (Faithless), Raghav, Omar, Taka Boom, Kingdom Choir, Don - E, Sonique, L.C.G.C, Chris Ballin, Imaani, Lauraine Cato, Lifford,Tony Momrelle, Noel McKoy Roots Manuva, Dynamite Mc, Ty, and Killa Kela and many more......

Its a worthy cause and we can all help in one way or another to spread the word about this well intentioned and worthy cause.

Sharmin
x

1. something about you
From:	Stephen Whyte <stephen.whyte @ ascentmedia.co.uk>
Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:10:26 +0100	[top]
Level 42 Digest for Monday, April 25, 2005 Now that the iPod chat seems to have dies down, i was wondering if anyone else had actually gone to see Mike perform on his recent live dates? If so, were you as impressed with his stripped down version of Something About You as i was? Ascent Media Group Ltd, Video House, 48 Charlotte Street, London W1T 2NS tel: (+44) 020 7208 2200 fax: (+44) 020 7208 2250 web: http://www.ascentmedia.co.uk The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, copy, distribute or disclose the e-mail or any part of its contents or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message. All reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure no viruses are present in this e-mail. Ascent Media Group Ltd cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage arising from the use of this e-mail or attachments and recommend that you subject these to your virus checking procedures prior to use.

2. Hope Collective: Give and Let Live
From:	SharminHall @ aol.com <SharminHall @ aol.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:02:36 EDT	[top]
Hi all I have an appeal from Bluey (Incognito) of the Hope Collective and worthy it is to! You may already know that after the Tsunami disaster Bluey decided to set up a fast yet affective way of raising funds for the people who lost homes aswell as families that are still without basic amenities such as fresh water, shelter and life in general. Well with help from many of his friends in the music industry, the Hope Collective was set up in not only helping raising money for the Asian basin but also to help those affected by famine in the Darfur region of Sudan and Playing Alive, a charity set up to help people was set up. Please do check out the website as well as donate and buy the single from http://www.expansionrecords.com aswell as check out the official website of the Hope Collective at http://www.giveandletlive.com There was official release for this single a couple of weeks ago that went really well and the artists involved all clubbed together to create an autographed Hope Collective photo album which can be found on Ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2328&item=7509621005&rd= 1 100% of all the funds raised will go to helping those less fortunate than us. Please do be generous and please also watch the video of the guys recording the single which features many artists such as Chaka Khan, Jocelyn Brown, Steve Winwood, Maysa, Amp Fiddler, Carleen Anderson, Maxi Jazz (Faithless), Raghav, Omar, Taka Boom, Kingdom Choir, Don - E, Sonique, L.C.G.C, Chris Ballin, Imaani, Lauraine Cato, Lifford,Tony Momrelle, Noel McKoy Roots Manuva, Dynamite Mc, Ty, and Killa Kela and many more...... Its a worthy cause and we can all help in one way or another to spread the word about this well intentioned and worthy cause. Sharmin x

3. i am not my iPod
From:	Daniel James <djames @ speakeasy.net>
Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:57:58 -0700	[top]
> Also, here is a little comparison of the various audio formats, as > tested by some guy. > You can review the results on this site: > > http://www.xciv.org/~meta/audio-shootout/ > Yeah, that appears as the first link when I google "aac vs mp3" and it also appears to be the only article claiming AAC to be inferior. I clicked through about six other links and they all claim 128kbs AAC files to be comparable to a MP3 file at 256+. Whatever. Everyone's ears are different and I can't tell the difference between a 128kbs AAC and a 160kbs MP3 (the AAC might come off a little brighter but hell, if I'm using headphones or listening in the car, there's enough ambient noise to cover the difference anyway). I say go with your preference--and my preference is to use a format that's compatible with devices other than the iPod. My DVD player will play CDs and DVDs loaded with MP3s, and I also have a device made by Philips called a "Streamium" (one of the coolest consumer devices ever) that'll stream mp3s from my PC upstairs to my stereo downstairs over wifi (will also work with several other audio formats, as well as divx and xvid video, and will also stream Internet radio streams from Shoutcast, Live365 and others as well as Internet video from Yahoo and iFiLM -- this thing rocks). > 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? I thought the full version of PocketTunes Deluxe did this, but I could be wrong. I only had the standard version back when I was doing the same thing you're doing (my SD cards have now been converted over for use in my digital camera, and in my new GPS-enabled PDA for storing maps). > 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. I completely agree with you! Funny, I was actually reading some of your old postings a few days ago. Julian recently commented about how he'd been around since Sep '95 and I went back through the archives to see how long ago I joined up -- and somehow I got back reading all the old Joe Parrington stuff. If anyone wants a blast from the past, go read his first rant (which I believe was his second post to the digest--about what utter rubbish it was--his third post all but ignored the fact that he'd pissed everyone off, and then his fourth was simply to say a big sod off to all those who called him on his crap -- funny stuff). > MIke, there is a way to set the ipod or itunes to play live tracks as > 1 > file, so you dont get that pause between songs. I think its a setting > when you > actually import the tunes, you can set it to import it as 1 file. If anyone can point me to this setting, I'd be most appreciative. I couldn't find it on my version of iTunes (which is apparently the latest). I'm about to switch over to using my Mac with the iPod (I've switched over just about everything else) and maybe it'll be a feature of the Mac version of iTunes. I can't wait to start writing some cool AppleScript code to automate the synching of my iPod!

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