Text 12519, 95 rader
Skriven 2009-03-18 16:14:48 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 12514 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: in the neighbourhood
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Hello Maurice.

17 Mar 09 14:21, you wrote to me:

 >> High quality files are not normally the sort that need filtering
 >> and fixing

 MK> One would think so, or at least hope that is the case.  However, in
 MK> the case of music and hardware, we've already cited cases where this
 MK> undesireable task has reared it's ugly head.  Despite this I am still
 MK> inclined to go for the gold as far as any original transfers to an
 MK> archived digital format is concerned and use that to downsample for
 MK> other incapable applications and/or hardware.

Yes, I have a Jim Reeves album, on CD, that the LP thrashes hands down sound 
wise, when I get everything going sound wise here, I want to see if I can fix 
the disaster resulting from too much digital mastering, that somehow left a 
lot of what sounds like tape noise behind ... , seems the guy who did it, 
hadn't a clue, or too darn lazy to take much effort ...

Agreed, you record at the highest quailty available, and then convert to what 
is required from there, what you have thrown away via compression, cannot be 
magically regained by uncompressing, once it is gone, it is gone ... :-(

 MK> Also, you said you wanted to prove that high quality digitized music
 MK> is doable.  I believe that it is although it costs in bytes and
 MK> processing.

Nothing for nothing and bugger all for free ...

 >> A use I have in mind is recording vinyl to the computer

 MK> If I am right about the Audiophile 192 being basically the same as the
 MK> Revolution 7.1, then that will definetly work out great for this
 MK> purpose given the better connectors for input.  ecasound will
 MK> definetly be an assest towards achieving this particular goal.

I think so ...

 >> have given that some thought here, just not gotten around to doing
 >> any "testing"

 MK> I did some rudimentary testing and liked what I saw ... errrrr ...
 MK> heard. At the moment I am still distracted with building a new initrd
 MK> for usb booting without having to resort to a phoney-baloney CD or
 MK> :::shiver::: floppy type boot.  Almost there.  I do have ramdisk
 MK> working and I may stick to that method instead even if I get the
 MK> initrd method working. I find it more to my liking especially having
 MK> partition(s) available that contain all the needed development tools
 MK> to chroot into and turn it up a notch.  An extremely powerful concept
 MK> that already proved itself on one of the neighbour's eeepc machine to
 MK> build itself a seamonkey. However in that particular case it never
 MK> went anywhere since it wasn't dumbed down enough for the usual
 MK> suspects.  <BEG>

Still might "inherit" one of those (eeepc) ...

 MK> Too many sheep and not enough shearers (<- is that a word?).
 MK> Obviously I am not into sheep.

Yeah, it is a word, th I cannot say if it is spelt, correctly, not that it 
matters ... :-)

 >> Saved, here, if any should have a need

 MK> Although I have serious doubts about that, you just never know for
 MK> sure. From what I've witnessed it appears that it won't make a
 MK> difference given the lack of services and it is getting worse in that
 MK> department. Anyhow the patch works and I tested the result.  QWK is
 MK> far too bloated a format and some of the overbloat looks to be buggy,
 MK> although it maybe the door rather than multimail's fault.  I never
 MK> went that far with it. I know offlining could be vastly improved
 MK> without QWK or any other of those abandonware type formats.

From when I last had use for it, Multi-Mail, was very well written, and worked 
well, tho the other half of the equation, did not always deliver to 
expectation ...

 MK> Have you done anything with the husky stuff lately?  I think the
 MK> pointing/bossnode relationship would be a superior method for offling
 MK> at this stage of the game and a few of the husky apps would be a good
 MK> kickstart.

Nope, haven't done much with them, tho I still connect to Zimbabwe via a Husky 
system and BinkleyTerm via POTS ... , which reminds me, it is time to kick 
that system back into life in a few minutes ... - let me open another 
terminal, and log on and kick start it ... done ...

As for mail exchange, a point system with a mailer is way more efficient time 
wise than using Bluewave/QWK/Soup/* packets ...

Russell

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