Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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FFS, apparently intelligent people still falling for the viral FB hoaxes about using their photos and asserting their copyright. It makes you realise how easy it is to get people to share oft-debunked hogwash.
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I don't Facebook, but is this the thing where people have assigned a free license in t e copyright to Meta by the act of uploading, under FB t&c's, but still think they can argue the toss?
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Yeah, that's the one... goes round and round at regular intervals and has been doing so for years. I put stuff on FB in the full knowledge it's no longer under my control once it's out in the wild.
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But you genuinely can opt out if you don't fancy your photos being used to train their ai.
Just not by sharing the weirdly phrased post.
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Yeah, though I can't see the advantage of opting out of that lone bit. After all, it's still a completely 'free' platform, so I don't really care if they derive money from the tat I put on it.
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Having been persuaded, I guess, 15-20 years ago by someone who's job is sound processing, that Windows Media Audio (wma) was the better way to rip CD tracks. Suffice to say that a big chunk of the CDs I ripped then are now stored in files that modern devices don't recognise. So I'll have to be very selective about what albums I load onto the new phone.
Hopefully when I know that wifi calling really works, and have found enough good mp3-ripped albums to transfer to the new phone, I'll get over this particular annoyance, and might get round to re-ripping the CDs in question. Maybe a semi-retirement project.
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mp3 at 320 mbps is and always was good enough. Sure you can rip higher and you might hear it but only on high end equipment and only if you have really good ears. It is still debated even at that. I know as I have HD tracks downloaded at over 1000 mbps which I have converted to mp3 for convenience and don't hear the difference. The most important part is the quality of the original recording. As an aside, it is fairly common for "remastered" music to actually sound worse so don't bin old music unless you know there are improvements.
Getting past the spilt milk stage you should be able to convert all your wma files to mp3 fairly automatically.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Yeah, was googling bulk conversion, but not found anything yet. Have a suspicion that re-ripoing will be almost as fast, but will see what turns up.
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I don't think anyone has passed a double blind test betweeen mp3 at 320 Kbps and CDs, so it should be good enough for everyone.
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Foobar does bulk conversion. It's pretty trivial; however, if your music is stored in low bit rate wma (eg 100) then it will become low bit rate mp3.
If you do rip everything again just do it as FLAC, and convert to whichever lossy format you want when required.
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Agreed on the ripping process (unless on Apple then ALAC is required).
FYI - Not my method but apparently - "To convert WAVE files to MP3, Windows Media Player lets you drag and drop your WAV file(s) into the Windows Media Player library. This will automatically import your files into the library. Then you can change WAV to MP3 files by going to the Options menu and clicking on the Rip Settings tab."
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WAV is uncompressed format, so can be converted to anything easily without loss. I assumed Brian had wma files.
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Thanks all. I might well give Foobar a try then. That said, I never did rip all my CDs, so might do some more while I'm at it.
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I think it's also worth spending the time sorting out the tags, so the genre, year, band name etc are all consistent. There's some software for that too.
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I use EAC (exact audio copy - not free though) to rip and get tags. It can correct damaged cds for example. You can save to whatever format you need.
Audacity (free) is a good editor if you want to edit metadata or import a file to then change format and re-save.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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I've got a mix of file type on my hard drive, playing them through Yamaha's Musiscast which seems to play all the file types, might have to convert some if I change playback software.
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EAC is free (did you pay?) and very good, but not sure it is that easy to use.
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Apologies for getting my acronyms muddled up. 😉 Apparently the process still stands.
Quite often people make life difficult by seeking specific solutions when they already have the answer but are unaware.
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Can we go back to these double blind studies between CDs and MP3s?
Are these conducted with the same rigour as the Pepsi taste test?
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Just trying it now. Free, if a bit DOSsy in its interface. First two CDs haven't picked up details from the interweb, but then I am on 30yo classical CDs from slightly niche labels.
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It will compare the checksum after ripping and usually find soneone else with the same value. You can check the obscurity of your CD on that basis.
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Foobar much better for picking up album/track details for ripping... currently doing some for my nest journey south... grabbing about 10 CDs at a time...
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Do Foobar know what Fubar stands for, do you think?
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The thought did pass through my mind.
But, so far, it's not blown up my laptop...
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People doing quizzes who don't know an answer then when told they repeat it as though they knew it all along.
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Equally, those who, when told the answer, say "oh, I wouldn't have got that". We know. You didn't. That's the point.
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Is that more, or less, annoying than disputing the answer?
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Unless it isn't correct!
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Misplaced my phone after getting back from Dr's for jab. Turned house upside down. Still nada. Ah, I'll ring it, I thought. Then recalled I put it on silent when in waiting room. Doh!
Finally found it inside my PC! I was using the torch to read model number of a Firewire card I'm trying to get to work with Win11.
Off all the places!!
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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