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[-Jim-]

Ugh. They are all in cardboard sleeves that are next to impossible to extract without touching the CD surface. Glad I only need to take them out and put them back once. Importing with Apple lossless.

I use FLAC, as I'm not fond of proprietary codecs that can be manipulated by the owners. (Even though I have an iPhone, and an iPad.)

 

[crazyfingers]

I use FLAC, as I'm not fond of proprietary codecs that can be manipulated by the owners. (Even though I have an iPhone, and an iPad.)

Apple has made it open source so my NAD preamp/streamer and FIIO portable play them. Once my IPOD classic dies i'll likely ditch itunes as my music manager/editor but till then itunes can't do FLAC.

It's easy to convert ALAC to FLAC down the road if there is a reason to do it.

 

[Bobby Bass]

Dire Straits Live. Mine arrived today! Can't wait to rip them into the computer. Love CD and hate CDs. The ripping is a pain but I can't motivate to flipping discs.

Mine too. The box set is just like the Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler ones. Agree the cardboard sleeves are too tight. Interesting that they are made in Germany. I’ve listened to the first 3 CDs with 5 to go and so far so good! The booklet with pics and essay about the history of the band is cool. Would recommend to a Dire Straits fan especially with the unreleased music included.

 

[crazyfingers]

I've listened to Live at the Rainbow Theater 1979 which is excellent! Now listening to the BBC CD. I need to wait until my wife is out to listen to the remaster of Alchemy LOUD to see if it's an improvement over my old one. I never thought my CD of Alchemy sounded as good as the LP.

I don't know if it's with the CD's or something strange about iTunes but iTunes didn't recognize any album art. I needed to make my own by taking photos of the album cover cards that came in the box.

So far though I'm very happy with this after the ordeal of ripping them.

 

[3db]

I placed an order for this CD from Prestomusic . I won't see it for at least 3 months I'm guessing as its out of stock

 

[crazyfingers]

Mine too. The box set is just like the Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler ones. Agree the cardboard sleeves are too tight. Interesting that they are made in Germany. I’ve listened to the first 3 CDs with 5 to go and so far so good! The booklet with pics and essay about the history of the band is cool. Would recommend to a Dire Straits fan especially with the unreleased music included.

I'm so glad that the expanded version of On the Night has a Telegraph Road. Not sure yet but I might like this version better than the Alchemy version. The Expanded On the Night might now rival Alchemy now. Still haven't dared (wife has a headache) to really turn Alchemy up loud to listen to my multiple versions to see if the new remaster is better. My first CD always seemed to be to strong on the treble and weak on the bass.

Ranking my favorite songs of all time, Telegraph Road might be in my top 10.

 

[Bobby Bass]

I'm so glad that the expanded version of On the Night has a Telegraph Road. Not sure yet but I might like this version better than the Alchemy version. The Expanded On the Night might now rival Alchemy now. Still haven't dared (wife has a headache) to really turn Alchemy up loud to listen to my multiple versions to see if the new remaster is better. My first CD always seemed to be to strong on the treble and weak on the bass.

Ranking my favorite songs of all time, Telegraph Road might be in my top 10.

I’ve listened to all 8 CDs and I’m very pleased. The extra music is excellent including the added cuts added to the original live albums and the previously unreleased concert. My wife was sick of listening to it by the end. I’ll listen to it loud in my listening room later. Telegraph road is excellent and the soloing on the different versions of Sultans of Swing is awesome. Mark Knopfler’s style isn’t to solo but when he does it’s amazing!

 

[Mikado463]

Hooray it's here and focusing works beautifully! Looks really nice and well made.
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Jose, glad to hear ! is the adapter a Canon piece or third party ? given it's size any balance issues with lenses attached ? All good with the camera itself, no issues I trust ?

 

[3db]

I purchased my 3rd Yamaha KX-1200 cassette deck for $500 plus shipping within Canada. I received the deck to today and its easily the most pristine looking of the three. It looks almost like new. I only physically put it in the rack but haven't connected it or powered up as I want it to come up to room temperature.

 

[afterlife2]

Jose, glad to hear ! is the adapter a Canon piece or third party ? given it's size any balance issues with lenses attached ? All good with the camera itself, no issues I trust ?

Hi Mikado463! To tell you the truth I haven't yet tried all my canon lens on the third party adapter ($31 shipped on eBay from China) yet. Probably try them this weekend. I'll report back, but I doubt any issues. Haven't had the time to go out and shoot outside yet.

 

[j_garcia]

Just arrived. S24 Ultra 512. $850 off when bundled with Buds2 Pro + trade in of my S23 Ultra.

I wasn't expecting that, the titanium body noticeably weighs more.

 

[j_garcia]

Waiting on my s24 plus to show up today. Gave me $650 for my S22 Ultra.

My friend had just bought the S23 Ultra then found out he had to go back to India due to a Visa issue, so I took it off his hands cheap in Dec. It is literally brand new and traded in my S22 Ultra 512. The trade in value for this year was not quite as good as last time, but the additional discount with the buds2 made it decent. Same deal as last time too, double the storage, so not a bad deal. I still made out because the trade in for the 22 in Dec. was $800.

 

[adk highlander]

New used X3's coming to our house.

2020 BMW X3 xDrive30i for the wife.

2022 Michi X3 for me.

 

[crazyfingers]

Dave's Pick Volume 49. First delivery from my 2024 Subscription
Grateful Dead at Frost Amphitheater, Palo Alto, 4/27/85 and 4/28/85

I don't have a lot of the 1980s. I have mostly 70's and 90's.

These bring to 171 concerts on the computer. I used to have a lot more when they were all on cassette from tape trading. Over 1000 cassettes, 500+ shows in total but the CD's that the Grateful Dead Org are releasing are way better quality than several generation copies of cassettes.

Sucked into iTunes as ALAC
Rename the albums to sort correctly in chronological order
Photograph the CD cover and add Album Art to iTunes
Rename album art file to Folder.jpg for BlueOS to reliably index.
Reindex the BlueOS library
Copy ALACs with Folder.jpg album art to my FiiO player
Convert ALACs to AAC 320 kbps to put on my phone for Android Auto
Copy AACs to my phone
Sync my iPod classic
Copy AACs to my backup drives for the phone music library
Delete AACs from my notebook
Backup the notebook with the ALACs in the iTunes library

What a process...

 

[adk highlander]

Dave's Pick Volume 49. First delivery from my 2024 Subscription
Grateful Dead at Frost Amphitheater, Palo Alto, 4/27/85 and 4/28/85

I don't have a lot of the 1980s. I have mostly 70's and 90's.

These bring to 171 concerts on the computer. I used to have a lot more when they were all on cassette from tape trading. Over 1000 cassettes, 500+ shows in total but the CD's that the Grateful Dead Org are releasing are way better quality than several generation copies of cassettes.

Sucked into iTunes as ALAC
Rename the albums to sort correctly in chronological order
Photograph the CD cover and add Album Art to iTunes
Rename album art file to Folder.jpg for BlueOS to reliably index.
Reindex the BlueOS library
Copy ALACs with Folder.jpg album art to my FiiO player
Convert ALACs to AAC 320 kbps to put on my phone for Android Auto
Copy AACs to my phone
Sync my iPod classic
Copy AACs to my backup drives for the phone music library
Delete AACs from my notebook
Backup the notebook with the ALACs in the iTunes library

What a process...


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Nice show but yes that is a real pain. If you are using a BlueOS, why iTunes or anything Apple for that matter. Just seems like you are making more pain especially if you are using a FiiO. Go Flac my friend!

 

[crazyfingers]

Nice show but yes that is a real pain. If you are using a BlueOS, why iTunes or anything Apple for that matter. Just seems like you are making more pain especially if you are using a FiiO. Go Flac my friend!

BlueOS isn't a music file editor. All it can do is index an existing library. So I would still need a music file/album editor to rename albums and add album art, etc.. and so long as my iPod Classic still works, that's iTunes and ALAC. When my iPod Classic finally dies I'll likely ditch iTunes for some other music/album manager/editor but since ALAC and FLAC are pretty much interchangeable quality and all of my devices can play ALAC as well as FLAC, it's ALAC for the time being. The FiiO player and my NAD preamp/BlueOS are compatible with ALACs so at the moment it doesn't really add complexity and I'd still convert to AAC for my phone since I only use that to play music with Android Auto in the car and doubt in the car I could tell the difference between AAC and ALAC or FLAC and I really want to save space on my phone. The FiiO has a microSD slot. The phone does not.

 

[adk highlander]

BlueOS isn't a music file editor. All it can do is index an existing library. So I would still need a music file/album editor to rename albums and add album art, etc.. and so long as my iPod Classic still works, that's iTunes and ALAC. When my iPod Classic finally dies I'll likely ditch iTunes for some other music/album manager/editor but since ALAC and FLAC are pretty much interchangeable quality and all of my devices can play ALAC as well as FLAC, it's ALAC for the time being. The FiiO player and my NAD preamp/BlueOS are compatible with ALACs so at the moment it doesn't really add complexity and I'd still convert to AAC for my phone since I only use that to play music with Android Auto in the car and doubt in the car I could tell the difference between AAC and ALAC or FLAC and I really want to save space on my phone. The FiiO has a microSD slot. The phone does not.

Ok. I remember the iPad classic you mentioned in a different thread. Roon is expensive but will do all you need and none of those hoops. Will work with the NAD and almost any streaming method. I guess as long as all the ALAC is ripped and not purchased then you should be good.

 

[crazyfingers]

Ok. I remember the iPad classic you mentioned in a different thread. Roon is expensive but will do all you need and none of those hoops. Will work with the NAD and almost any streaming method. I guess as long as all the ALAC is ripped and not purchased then you should be good.

All of the ALACs I have are either ripped from CD or purchased from Nugs.net. (Dead and Company concerts)

Roon. I should look at that for future needs. Some day I'll be wanting get away from iTunes. I wonder how much longer my iPod Classic will live? But did I read once that Roon has a file/library size limit? I thought I read that it can only keep 5000 files indexed. I'm getting close to 10,000.

 

[adk highlander]

All of the ALACs I have are either ripped from CD or purchased from Nugs.net. (Dead and Company concerts)

Roon. I should look at that for future needs. Some day I'll be wanting get away from iTunes. I wonder how much longer my iPod Classic will live? But did I read once that Roon has a file/library size limit? I thought I read that it can only keep 5000 files indexed. I'm getting close to 10,000.

No file size limit. I have a little over 2300 albums which is about 35K in tracts. I use an older nuc with an i3 processor 8gb of RAM. Searches are not super fast any longer and doing dsp in more than one zone is a no go. There are folks on the Roon forum with 300k in tracts. They need more RAM and faster processors. There is so much Roon can do from upsampling to full room correction based on REW scans.

 

[Bobby Bass]

Dave's Pick Volume 49. First delivery from my 2024 Subscription
Grateful Dead at Frost Amphitheater, Palo Alto, 4/27/85 and 4/28/85

I don't have a lot of the 1980s. I have mostly 70's and 90's.

These bring to 171 concerts on the computer. I used to have a lot more when they were all on cassette from tape trading. Over 1000 cassettes, 500+ shows in total but the CD's that the Grateful Dead Org are releasing are way better quality than several generation copies of cassettes.

Sucked into iTunes as ALAC
Rename the albums to sort correctly in chronological order
Photograph the CD cover and add Album Art to iTunes
Rename album art file to Folder.jpg for BlueOS to reliably index.
Reindex the BlueOS library
Copy ALACs with Folder.jpg album art to my FiiO player
Convert ALACs to AAC 320 kbps to put on my phone for Android Auto
Copy AACs to my phone
Sync my iPod classic
Copy AACs to my backup drives for the phone music library
Delete AACs from my notebook
Backup the notebook with the ALACs in the iTunes library

What a process...


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Cool hopefully I’ll receive my soon. Really looking forward to #50 with the bonus disc. Should be another great year for Dave’s Picks.