Have you had the urge to get a HD with songs on it?
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You'ns guys have soooo misdirected this thread, lol.
Your're sooooo right....
What were we talkin about in the first place....?
Oh yeah, pirated music loaded on a Hard Drive....
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I will openly admit, I have bought one of these, but is was for personal use, nothing for business. I have let my views be known in other threads about the whole "ripping the artist" off theory.
I would never ever use one of these for professional use for only 2 reasons:
Tagging - most people don't know how to rip and tag a CD when they burn it onto a harddrive (some of the songs were simply listed as "unknown". It did not matter to me, but I was simply playing it through a stereo at home on random.
Censoring - If you use these for a professional show, you have to listen to every single song to make sure they are censored.
The quality issue I think is overblown, because most normal, average, everyday client can not tell the difference between 192 and 320 when played through a professional quality sound system.
I would never ever use one of these for professional use for only 2 reasons:
Tagging - most people don't know how to rip and tag a CD when they burn it onto a harddrive (some of the songs were simply listed as "unknown". It did not matter to me, but I was simply playing it through a stereo at home on random.
Censoring - If you use these for a professional show, you have to listen to every single song to make sure they are censored.
The quality issue I think is overblown, because most normal, average, everyday client can not tell the difference between 192 and 320 when played through a professional quality sound system.
all the songs are listed by artist in the order that you wrote.
The Tubes, Boston, Chicago or Styx
so you really need to hear White Punks On Dope by the Tubes!
The Tubes, Boston, Chicago or Styx
so you really need to hear White Punks On Dope by the Tubes!
WITHIN A ROOM FULL OF 200 People and they certainly cant hear both speakers when on the Packed Dancefloor to discern Stereo or mono even.
Alright, after finishing the well cover off today (ooh, I hurt big time), I'm taking some time to look at these tracks.
Need to do perspective here: This drive belonged to a fed government employee (actually, the gov't owns, and paid for the drive and music -- your tax dollars at work :sqerr. I will not mention the agency by name, but it's outside the beltway (you can probably figure it out, if you recall my past ramblings).
Somebody duped it, and brought me a copy, to see if I could trace it back (I'm fairly handy at that sort of sh_t - go figure).
Nobodies going to jail for this, or even losing their job -- it's more of a nip the thing in the bud, before it gets rampant sort of thing. Oversight, if you will.
The reason I put that in perspective, is not because I'm the music police, and neither is the source. I could care less, to a certain extent -- it's not my conscience at stake here.
Having gotten that crap outta the way, the tracks are all ripped at 128 CBR.
Sound quality is not all that bad on the tracks tested. They would work for standard DJ stuff, given a reasonable noise floor at a gig.
Filenames are consistent, yet why anyone would want the track number in a filename (on a computer), is totally beyond my little bitty pea brain. You have 60,000 songs, do the math, and figure how many are track # 004
Why put the album name in the filename -- it's already in the tag -- wasted space.
Genre's are not consistent with the 125 that are acceptable to almost every piece of software on the planet.
Summary:
If you are a cheap bastard, it might work for you. You will have to listen to about 60,000 songs, to make sure they aren't hosed (I've already found quite a few in my limited sound checks).
90+ percent are filler material (e.g., you will never play them, and they take up space, plus add to search and sort time).
Anyway, I'm hungry, anybody wanna buy a hard drive...?
Need to do perspective here: This drive belonged to a fed government employee (actually, the gov't owns, and paid for the drive and music -- your tax dollars at work :sqerr
. I will not mention the agency by name, but it's outside the beltway (you can probably figure it out, if you recall my past ramblings).Somebody duped it, and brought me a copy, to see if I could trace it back (I'm fairly handy at that sort of sh_t - go figure).
Nobodies going to jail for this, or even losing their job -- it's more of a nip the thing in the bud, before it gets rampant sort of thing. Oversight, if you will.
The reason I put that in perspective, is not because I'm the music police, and neither is the source. I could care less, to a certain extent -- it's not my conscience at stake here.
Having gotten that crap outta the way, the tracks are all ripped at 128 CBR.
Sound quality is not all that bad on the tracks tested. They would work for standard DJ stuff, given a reasonable noise floor at a gig.
Filenames are consistent, yet why anyone would want the track number in a filename (on a computer), is totally beyond my little bitty pea brain. You have 60,000 songs, do the math, and figure how many are track # 004
Why put the album name in the filename -- it's already in the tag -- wasted space.
Genre's are not consistent with the 125 that are acceptable to almost every piece of software on the planet.
Summary:
If you are a cheap bastard, it might work for you. You will have to listen to about 60,000 songs, to make sure they aren't hosed (I've already found quite a few in my limited sound checks).
90+ percent are filler material (e.g., you will never play them, and they take up space, plus add to search and sort time).
Anyway, I'm hungry, anybody wanna buy a hard drive...?
Nah, you'd just throw them fish back in the water anyway Chuck
If not, I'm gonna send my mutant shrimp down to have a talk with you...
If not, I'm gonna send my mutant shrimp down to have a talk with you...
all the songs are listed by artist in the order that you wrote.
The Tubes, Boston, Chicago or Styx
so you really need to hear White Punks On Dope by the Tubes!
Yeah the only Tubes album I've ever listened to was their self titled album with ahhhh shoot can't rember the song title but a line goes "...she's a beuty" and pretty much the just of the song is about a peep show girl.
I could have saved you a lot of time Rick.
When I decided to go digital 4 yrs ago, I bought a HDD off ebay. I had tons of cd's, lp's and tapes.
I figured I would cross reference and save a lot of time in the burning process.
Make a long story short.
Reformat.
Wrong artist. Wrong title. Same title 4 or 5 times. Bit rate all over. Some wav. Wasn't worth the money or the time to clean it up.
Lesson learned. Do it yourself. Done the way you want it, set up folders the way you want, categorized the way you want... etc.
When I decided to go digital 4 yrs ago, I bought a HDD off ebay. I had tons of cd's, lp's and tapes.
I figured I would cross reference and save a lot of time in the burning process.
Make a long story short.
Reformat.
Wrong artist. Wrong title. Same title 4 or 5 times. Bit rate all over. Some wav. Wasn't worth the money or the time to clean it up.
Lesson learned. Do it yourself. Done the way you want it, set up folders the way you want, categorized the way you want... etc.
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If anyone does by one of these (and I am not suggesting you do), I would highly suggest getting dbPowerAmp Converter, which will allow you to convert everything to the same media type and will help clean up some of the tagging issues.
It obviously can not change the bit rate.
It obviously can not change the bit rate.
