Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
With Audible, you can cancel your subscription and still
listen to purchased content.
News to me. So, the app doesn't call the mothership to
authorize play?
You can also buy content for a price, if I'm not mistaken.
I think the term is a la carte. Libro.fm has that too.
But it I recall, if you cancel Audible, you loose your points.
Conversely with Libro.fm, if you suspend your service (to avoid
getting auto-billed on the membership) you still retain those
points when you resume the membership.
FLAC is wonderful. I don't think it can be DRMed.
I experimented in producing CDs with FLAC originals after
converting the files to Apple's version, ALAC. The burned CD
and the original master were indistiguishable, to me.
The industry sure made a big outcry of lost monies when mp3
emerged. But their industry was NOT overly affected at all.
Plenty of profits were still being made.
People often talk about the iPod as revolutionizing portable music, but even before the iPod was released, I remember seeing at least one MP3 player on t market, the Diamond Rio. It was sold in regular retail stores like Best Buy
I remember reading somewhere that the music industry wanted to halt sales of the Diamond Rio because of worry about ease of listening to downloaded music that wasn't paid for.
I bought a NetMD by Sony, it was better than the Diamond Rio. Best Buy
tried to promote Windows XP by saying you can buy a Diamond Rio for like 49.99, but they all never came in the store at the time I ordered Windows
XP upgrade for my PC back in 2001.
The RIAA filed a suit against Diamond, IIRC. Not sure it went anywhere though, but I do recall that the reason floated around in magazines at the time for the low on-board storage capacity was an attempt to "play nice" with the recording industry, even though you could insert an SD for additional storage.
As it came out of the box, I think you could get maybe 10 tracks on it. I remember having to expand the storage to get it usable as an everyday gizmo. It wasn't long before it replaced the tapes in my car though.
Did it actually have an SD card slot for additional storage? I didn't think cards existed at the time. For the time it was released, I imagined it may have used CompactFlash.
You're right, it was a flash card now I think about it. I seem to recall you could only add 32MB according to Diamond but if you got the right brand you could stick a 64MB in there. I'd have to look it up to be sure. I can't believe it was 24 years ago.
Nothing like nostalgia to make you feel old :(
I know what you mean.. I remember in 1997 (or so) buying my original Voodoo graphics card for my PC, and later a Voodoo 2 and thought it was one of the greatest computer products ever. Any game that supported
3DFX ran so fast with a Voodoo card. And that doeesn't seem like that long ago..
I still love Voodoo cards :) I have two Voodoo 2's in SLI, a couple of Voodoo 3's (but actually they're all in my amigas at the moment) and a 3500 tv card. The games with glide were so much fun.
Interesting, I didn't know any of the Voodoo cards would work in an
Amiga. I've never owned an Amiga though.. I didn't know Amigas had
PCI ports. And I would have thought the Voodoo cards would be too new
for Amigas to have drivers for them (unless there are 3rd-party
drivers?)
Interesting, I didn't know any of the Voodoo cards would work in an
Amiga. I've never owned an Amiga though.. I didn't know Amigas had
The use of a "Buss Board", is how Amiga's can access "some" pci devices that have drivers. There's actually a good range of them.
http://amiga.resource.cx/dir/bus
Interesting, I didn't know any of the Voodoo cards would work in an
Amiga. I've never owned an Amiga though.. I didn't know Amigas had PCI ports. And I would have thought the Voodoo cards would be too new for Amigas to have drivers for them (unless there are 3rd-party drivers?)
Interesting, I didn't know any of the Voodoo cards would work in
an Amiga. I've never owned an Amiga though.. I didn't know Amigas
The use of a "Buss Board", is how Amiga's can access "some" pci
devices that have drivers. There's actually a good range of them. http://amiga.resource.cx/dir/bus
That's interesting.
Yeah, the Amiga's have some 3rd party busboards which can take some (limited) PCI cards. The voodoo 3 is compatible in this case. It's
pretty niche and can't do terribly much but I love it for what it _can_ do, hehe
I think I saw that WinUAE may have some support to VooDoo emulation, but I'm so far away to understand how to even configure it and consume at OS level that I never truly cared.
I still find it impossible to configure 060 emulation in UAE properly,
so I still am kind of stuck with 040 with 060+ speed that is practically delivered by UAE on modern machines.
Atari8Guy wrote to Arelor <=-
Is this not also what happened with the TV show WKRP? The original
airing had an awesome collection of tunes that were very much part of
the show, but the licensing costs got out of control so in syndication
and when the boxed set DVD came out it was a bunch of crapola songs..
Is this not also what happened with the TV show WKRP? The original
airing had an awesome collection of tunes that were very much part of the show, but the licensing costs got out of control so in syndication and
when the boxed set DVD came out it was a bunch of crapola songs..
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Atari8Guy wrote to Arelor <=-
Is this not also what happened with the TV show WKRP? The original
airing had an awesome collection of tunes that were very much part of
the show, but the licensing costs got out of control so in syndication
and when the boxed set DVD came out it was a bunch of crapola songs..
I hope some person with time on their hands decides to make a Spotify playlist of the best of (original) WKRP background music. It'd be pretty good.
Arelor wrote to Atari8Guy <=-
Is this not also what happened with the TV show WKRP? The original
I would not know. I don't even know what that shows is. For what you
say, it is likely.
I found a similar playlist on Spotify of all of the songs playing in th background of the movie "High Fidelity". Great listening!
I found a similar playlist on Spotify of all of the songs playing in
th background of the movie "High Fidelity". Great listening!
Link plz!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWZ5kgu17cbcC
The industry sure made a big outcry of lost monies when mp3
emerged. But their industry was NOT overly affected at all.
Plenty of profits were still being made.
Yeah, the companies still made a lot of money, but you know who DIDN'T make a lot of money? The artists. The people who actually wrote and performed the music. I've been a pro musician for half my life and I can
Yeah, the companies still made a lot of money, but you know who DIDN'T make a lot of money? The artists. The people who actually wrote and performed the music. I've been a pro musician for half my life and I can tell you that the record companies and publishing companies get most of your royalties. The artists get very little. That's why so many big
bands still tour. It's their only way to make any money.
during the last paying gig I had back in 2017, the bar owner made the mistake of telling us that we would be playing for "experience" not
The way he related the industry to me was that labels always screwed talent, but in the post-mp3 world, labels made sure they could survive
during the last paying gig I had back in 2017, the bar owner made the mistake of telling us that we would be playing for "experience" not cash.
...I've been a pro musician for half my life and I can tell
you that the record companies and publishing companies get
most of your royalties. The artists get very little. That's
why so many big bands still tour. It's their only way to
make any money.
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