Going digital

eeewwww and I liked it too

bought4life wrote:

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

...don't forget that unique smell too !

 
Uhhhhhh...sorry G/F....that wasn't the cd  

 This is funny ... or stinky?

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

eeewwww and I liked it too

 

Hehehehehe....

that's just sooo wrong

I found another CD missing from my Zune software today and am glad that I have the CD.  I was wanting to hear Titanic's "Full Steam Ahead" and it was somehow missing from my player.  With the CD, I can rectify that easily.

I had a download album (Rex Carroll's latest blues album) go missing from my computer one day. The folder was still there but all the songs were missing. Fortunately I had it backed up on external drive (and a DVDR) so I was able to recover it.

That has been great Staybrite.
It's a bit frustrating when you downloading an album and notice song are missing while you payed for the complete album. 

I have had the same with Crystavox The 20 years remix.

Also, sometimes you buy a download and there is a mp3 resync error in it. I had that happen with one i got from The Sacrificed.

I bought a digital download album from the Watchmen on their website and one of the songs was the wrong song. I emailed them and they never answered. I had to find the missing song on the internet.

I had one of my externals flip out on me once. Like Staybrite said, all the folders were still there, but no data. Every single folder I'd created was still on the hard drive, but when you open the folders there was nothing inside them. I doubt is was a virus, cuz this only happened on my Seagate external and not my PC, Laptop or other 3 HDDs ...... and thank GOD I had all those other backups, cuz at the time, I was digital only, and didn't have any of the CDs.

Well, thanks for all the feedback.  I think despite the higher cost and storage, I'm going to keep buying CD's.  But I think it was an interesting discussion and who knows? People may still chip in..

A video I made converting vinyl to digital. Putting some vinyl on my iPod was fun and it sounds awesome in my truck!

That's very cool MikeInFla ! I did the same thing with all my cassettes and several LPs a long time ago with a program called GoldWave. A bit of work and time, but it's so worth it to digitize your collection and it's a lot of fun too... addicting.
I ended up getting cds for all the cassettes I digitized, so all my work was kind of a waste of time.. but I had fun doing it at the time. A lot of the records I've done have never been released on CD so those were well worth the work.
At one point I was enjoying it so much I thought about advertising to do this service for others and actually get paid (since I was already digitizing for free everyone in my family's records and some tapes). Then decided I didn't really have the time for that.

Yeah I have a lot of fun doing it. Did my cassettes a while back. And I also play these records at home not just transfer them to digital. I have digital copies of the stuff I want to listen to in my truck. I've offered to do them for people at work-- my only payment is I get to keep the vinyl. So far a few people have given me some and I made CDs for them

Those are the coolest "payments" - I've had people ask me to copy dvds or cds or whatever for me, and without even asking they give me an entire spindle of cds or dvds to say thanks. It's pretty cool.
Most records I've digitized for people ... I personally wouldn't want (some for my mom, her friends and a couple other people "of age" who've had me burn stuff like Herb Alpert, Johnny Mathis, and some Spanish record that apparently was super rare, so I was told... oh and I almost forgot, this creepy organist guy from India back in the 50s and 60s "Korla Pandit".... ah the things I do for people   )

[CENSORED FOR NOT BEING FUNNY]

Foiled again by my own strange humor

Yeah I converted some Benny Goodman and some very old swing and jazz records for a lady at church. Luckily she didnt have 78's. my turntable will play them but you have to have a special stylus.

Also in my video the playback version on the computer sounds tinny. But it does not sound that way on actual playback in the house must just sound that way on the video.

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

Those are the coolest "payments" - I've had people ask me to copy dvds or cds or whatever for me, and without even asking they give me an entire spindle of cds or dvds to say thanks. It's pretty cool.
Most records I've digitized for people ... I personally wouldn't want (some for my mom, her friends and a couple other people "of age" who've had me burn stuff like Herb Alpert, Johnny Mathis, and some Spanish record that apparently was super rare, so I was told... oh and I almost forgot, this creepy organist guy from India back in the 50s and 60s "Korla Pandit".... ah the things I do for people   )

 That rare Spanish record wouldn't happen to be Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo, would it??? That's a beautiful piece of music you had your hands on if so. (The second movement was later re-visioned by Miles Davis and Gil Evans on Miles' Sketches of Spain album.)