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Sweet as you'll hook me up ay??

I've actually just gotten back into CDs since spending years listening to MP3

Was swayed by a couple of important trademe purchases recently
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Posted: 2008-09-13 12:10:33
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Of course mate.

Yeah, first I gotta get the job. I think I'll give them my CV when I go in there later this month to get the new Kings Of Leon.

I always buy CDs and convert them myself, so I have a large-ish CD collection. I like being able to have a physical collection of music rather than (sometimes crappy) files on a computer.
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Posted: 2008-09-13 13:04:24
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Me too. Plus with CD's you get to decide what you want to do with them and what devices to put them on. With MP3s you get dictated to an awful lot and basically only rent what you though you purchased...

People must be getting sick of losing access to music they downloaded to phones once the lose or upgrade thier phone, I know I am.
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Posted: 2008-09-14 03:22:34
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Yeah, that too. It's so easy to delete or lose downloaded music.

I also like having the booklet and album art that comes with a CD. To me, that is all part of the CD and the music.

Good to see you back carkitter.
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Posted: 2008-09-14 08:23:48
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Thanks!

I've been dealing with exams and assignments and study for both... you know the drill.

I always enjoy reading the lyrics in the booklet to get a handle on what the song is about - except on Dance/Electronics tunes with minimal lyrics of course.

Did you hear about the inspiration behind "I'm On Call"?
Apparently the lead singer of Kings of Leon was perplexed about why his 'awesome' songs didn't take off so he listened a little closer to what does chart well and found that some of the most popular songs are basically just 3 words repeated. He tried it out with "I'm on call" and "I'll be there" and the rest is history...

I spent a few hours yesterday re-encoding all my CD's using iTunes at the default 128 bps. My eldest son just bought an iPod Nano, I'm looking seriously at an iPhone 3G and the V640i (now sporting an 8GB M2 ) is perfectly happy using AAC too. iTunes is not bad - its a little annoying how it wants to send you to the iStore all the time, but overall I like it. Have you downloaded Version 8.0 yet? Interesting new aa genre grid design to suit the forthcoming new iPods.

Speaking of album art, can you put aa from your CD's onto iTunes without an iStore account?
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Posted: 2008-09-14 17:03:40
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Did your exams go well then mate?

I hadn't heard that about On Call, but that's very interesting. It was easily their most popular song in my opinion, and it opened everyone up to their band so that when they released fans, that went off too!

Does your son have the new Nano? If so, what's it like? I am seriously considering getting one because I really like the yellow one (for some reason) and the new features they've added.

About iTunes, I have 8.0 too. It is possible to stop it always trying to connect you to the store. If you search through the preference settings, you can find a way to disable the store under 'parental' and you can always turn Genius off to get rid of that. If its always bringing up the iTunes mini-store, you can get rid of that too somehow that I can't remember.

It's easy to put album art onto a song or album you haven't downloaded from iTunes (Oh god, I sound like an Apple instruction manual/video). Simply select the album or song you want:



Then right click on the selection:



Choose 'Get Info' to bring up this box:



Double Click on the box entitled 'Artwork' then choose your image:



I'm sure you're good from there.

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[ This Message was edited by: Muhammad-Oli on 2008-09-15 02:25 ]
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Posted: 2008-09-15 03:22:36
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Anyone want a pretty cheap W910i? Vodafone is now selling them for 400 bucks.
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Posted: 2008-09-15 03:44:31
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Cool! got it sorted now.

My son got his Nano about 4 weeks ago so it's not the 'New' model.
He bought it out-of-the-blue after saying he was going to get a PSP. The screen is cool but I don't like the UI or click wheel very much, nor the proprietary connectivity that makes Sony/SE look positively open source

I'm keen on the iPhone but without the two functions I use the most ATM (Mass Storage and Modem) it's a bit of a worry. These are features it should have and Apple need to sort themselves out if they want to be taken seriously in the mobile market. It should have A2DP too but no doubt there's an accessory which will do that.

Edit: 400 bucks! Gee thats cheap!

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[ This Message was edited by: carkitter on 2008-09-15 03:25 ]
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Posted: 2008-09-15 04:23:07
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Ah he should have got the PSP! Nah I bet the iPod will be cheaper in the long run though. Not having to buy games all the time and that.

Really? The iPhone doesn't have mass storage?! I though it would be like all iPods and have mass storage. That's a bit ridiculous.

And yeah, the W910i is depreciating rapidly. Don't expect its successor to hit our shores. I don't think it sells.
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Posted: 2008-09-15 06:12:01
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by the succsessor do you mean c905? It doesn't really worry me, im getting mine from the uk, but it would be cool to have one of the few c905's in New Zealand
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Posted: 2008-09-15 08:06:04
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