Rhino Records, the label for several major artists (Led Zeppelin, Emmylou Harris, Doors, Modern Jazz Quartet, etc.) is now offering lossless downloads of portions their library - http://www.rhino.com/shop/format/Digital. The formats are Apple and WMA lossless and FLAC. The pricing is $14.99/album and $1.49/track.

The pricing is a bit high as you can buy the CD for less and rip it, but it's great to see a major label opening their library for at least CD quality downloads.

I am a new member of the site, but a long time music aficianado, just getting into the world of high-end audio. My current setup is as follows.

Macbook Pro w/itunes
Time Capsule with mixture of ALAC and 320kbs MP3 (215GB of music, 1000+ albums)
Arcam AVR100 Receiver (Connected to MBP via toslink)
Arcam DV88 DVD Player (Connected to receiver via Digital cable to receiver)
2x B&W DM602S3 120w speakers (QED cables connected to receiver)
1x B&W LCR60S3 120w speaker
2 Atacama Stands
Grado SR60i headphones

http://www.toomuchjoy.com/?p=1397

death to big record labels

The Decade in Music, from NPR's "All Things Considered."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSbYE4H28zI

Does anyone have any experience with Media Monkey? I bought the program to burn WAV files from my CD's so as to move the data to a iPOD Classic. I have had a good bit of problems with the program. Specifically...

I had my entire WAV Library simply dissappear after a CClean session of trash and registry cleanup.
The program also refused to burn my CD's...I deleted and reloaded the program, had it working fine, did an update to their latest version, and now it refuses to burn CD's again.(I am using a Sony laptop and, for my sins, VISTA home premium)

What do you think of this 16 minutes of music?

Download it here from the source.

-Todd Giencke

I am trying to figure out what type of speaker input this is, anyone know?
Photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8846019@N06/4154928247/