Grabbing the Crystal by the Ball

Grabbing the Crystal by the Ball

Dec 04, 2009 First Published:Mar 04, 1988

Every once in a while, and particularly around the first of the year, news writers (of which I am one) get the urge to play oracle, laying our credibilities on the line by attempting to divine what the coming year will bring. Since I am writing this at the end of January, the chances of my miscalling my shots have already been reduced by a factor of 0.083. But there are still 11 months to go, and some possibility that a prediction or two may be wrong. Nonetheless, I shall intrepidly grab the bull by the horns, the crystal by the ball, and the opportunity of the moment to take an educated guess at what the rest of 1988 holds for audio.

Rhino Records offering lossless downloads

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General Rants 'n' Raves
Submitted by CharlyD on

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.

First Digital System

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The Entry Level
Submitted by johnnyha on

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

Even in the Rain

Even in the Rain

Dec 03, 2009

Here’s the video for the Fiery Furnaces’s hit single, “Even in the Rain,” which is possibly my favorite track from the band’s excellently <i>easy</i>-to-listen-to album, <i>I’m Going Away</i>. (It’s not really a “hit.” I just made that up. But it could be, if we lived in a different world.)

Media Monkey??

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Computer Audio
Submitted by JIMV on

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)

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