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I met a person at work whose son is a 15 year old violin player.

He's in the local high school (public school) orchestra and had an iPod full of classical tunes.

He is an avid file sharer (apologies to the industry) via one of those internet places teenagers go, and has almost a thousand classical music "friends" in that community.

They compare past and current performances of loads of classical pieces, and discuss and argue about which ones are better!

SXSW I

SXSW I

So I'm sitting in traffic on MOPAC, the north/south expressway in Austin, listening to Willie Nile sing "Streets of New York," a tune that can be thought of as his "Jungleland" from his latest album, <I>Streets of New York</I>, on the CD player of my rented Jeep Liberty.

Ry Cooder/Robert Baird/ITunes

I read with great interest this piece on Ry Cooder mastering with ITunes. Shock! He is not the first to use a car audio system as a final mix check before pressing. Scary, Uh?

I ran a test with JA's white noise from the Stereophile's Editors choice Disc Sampler and Test CD. I uploaded it into ITunes and then ran 1 minute of stock sound into my desktop using Cool Edit 2000 and my outboard M-Audio ADC.

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