Posted on 09/12/2006 11:21:04 AM PDT by Dont Mention the War
Free and yummy!
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Just regular CDR's - the iTunes MP3 burned cdr's sound better in my Ford factory CD/MP3 player than the commercial store bought music CD's do. I don't have another MP3 player to play them on.
I have no idea why this is.
I don't have another MP3 player to play them on EXCEPT for my computers. My home stereo cd player will not play MP3's as it is about 13 years old.
I believe they are just basic CDR's
How then, do you convert the iTunes M4P files into MP3s? I know that you can burn an audio cd and reimport as MP3, but you get the same quality loss I was talking about earlier when you do that.
For real?
if they actually came with high end video cards
Well, you can build to order with an NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500, as documented here. That qualifies as high-end!
and if the software I use ran on them.
Well, you can reboot to Windows or Linux using Apple's free Boot Camp, or you can buy Parallels Desktop for Mac, which lets you run a virtual Windows or Linux machine without rebooting.
Right now Boot Camp holds the edge on the graphics speed, but the Parallels team says they're working on getting high-speed graphics drivers working.
(Also, VMWare is coming for the Mac as well....)
Such a shame.
Apparently, not really.... I guess we'll see you soon on the Mac side?
And it didn't matter that the music sounded like it was using tin cans as speakers, we were lucky to even have "portable" music that we could lug around on our 16 megabyte iPods that carried only about 20 songs but we were damn happy with that. Who the heck needs to listen to more than 20 songs anyways? I can barely remember the words to four or five. Never mind trying to keep track of 20.
And back in those days, the iPods were as big as telephone books and weighed 12 pounds. They took eight size "D" batteries and we got maybe four hours of music before we had to replace them again. But we didn't complain and whine like the yuppies do today about their "paltry 10 hours" of battery life. Pussies!
And these things came with a single earphone. None of those "stereo" earbuds that you see the yuppies prancing around with these days. We just stuck the earbud in our one good ear and went about our business. When we listened to Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, we just had to pretend to hear the alarm clocks and cowbells and all those other fancy sound effects you get in the "stereo" version.
Those were the days. When men were men. And even Steve Jobs had hair on his chest and ate real meat.
I just knew you were going to ask me that. :-)
I honestly don't know I how I did it only that I was able to do it.
I have not burned iTunes Cd's for some time. I only did it after I got my truck in Jan. of 2006. I wanted to make some special Music CD's so I opened a iTunes account back then made 2 full CDR's. I remember I had to do something with the iTunes settings (sorry... I don't remember what I did) but it worked and they sound better than the commercial CD's.
The burner I used is a (external) USB CD/DVD burner that bought in the past year. Maybe that has something to do with it. If I recall the CDR's were just basic Memorex CDR's and the files are MP3's on the CDR's.
Not to mention that spending $1650 for a Quadro is tough when a 200-300 for some mark of GeForce 7900 will do as good or better job with games.
What I'm wondering is if I will get the iTunes music player quality on my stereo if I get one of those stereos that lets me plug an iPod into it, and dispense with CDs altogether. Seeing how I'm probably getting a new car within the next 6 months, it might be something to look into.
They're up to the Radeon X1900 XT now, not to mention the workstation cards. Otherwise, if you need specific software, you can run Windows on them in a pinch.
LOL
Nice rant!
You are lucky! I am using an IBM luggable, and . . .
You had Batteries!!!??
How spoiled can you get?
We had to keep a 5,000 foot extension cord to listen to the music on our 45-lb Kaypro! And there wasn't WAVs back then -- all of the music was in BMPs that had to be played back one bit at a time! And we kept them on 8 inch floppies! Once song per floppy!
And we LIKED it!
The following is just my own dumb semi-informed opinion: I haven't seen any halfway reliable buzz anywhere that the iPhone is going to come along any time soon. (At this point, I'd be highly surprised if it comes along before Q2 2007 at the earliest.) And even if/when it does come along, who knows if it'll be what you really hoped it would be ... what if it's more phone than pod? What if it only works with Verizon and you've got Cingular? etc. ... And your 4G is getting a bit long in the tooth anyway (by iPod standards, at least). So you might as well say "What the heck, why not" and go for the new 5G 80GB. Hey, you'll get to play Tetris on it! :)
Of course, you should hold on to your 4G 40GB no matter what; as long as it works, there's nothing wrong with having a second iPod around. If nothing else, you can use it as a backup hard drive, or install iPodLinux on it and have some fun getting geeky with it.
You had AC power???!!??
Geez, we had to lug around a hand-crank 3-phase generator just to keep the display lit. It took a lawnmower engine with a power take-off to actually play a song. Then there was the trailer for the Voice Of The Theater speakers...
And the songs were stored on 9-track tape reels -- it was a big breakthrough when we switched to cassettes!
And WE liked it!!
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