From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #286 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, October 14 2004 Volume 10 : Number 286 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] Show announcements & request [Lauren Young ] Innocence Mission News [Neile Graham ] question for CD burning enthusiasts ["Kevin D. F. Highnight" ] Re: question for CD burning enthusiasts [DanStark <2004.carnivore99@veriz] Re: Sarah McLachlan's latest video, was (Michel Gondry, bjork video [Caro] Re: question for CD burning enthusiasts [Nadyne Mielke Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ***************** Wolfgang Drotschmann (no Email address) ***************** ********************** Gracescape (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Wolfgang Drotschmann Thu October 13 1966 Waage Gracescape Fri October 13 1967 unbalanced Brian Bloom Tue October 14 1969 spam Erik N. Johnson Tue October 16 1962 Handle with Care Kim Klouda Tue October 17 1967 Libra Anthony Amato Sat October 20 1973 Libra Suzanne DeCory Tue October 22 1968 Balancing Libra Dave Steiner Sat October 24 1959 Scorpio Tara MacLean Thu October 25 1973 Scorpio Elin Sjoelie Fri October 25 1974 Scorpio Jessica Koeppel Wed October 29 1969 Scorpio Kathy Clark Sat November 01 1969 Bunnies Katie Dougiamas Sat November 02 1974 Scorpio Anthony Horan Fri November 04 1966 Positive Michael Sullivan Mon November 05 1962 Scorpio Anna Pryde Wed November 05 1975 Scorpio Sun; Sagittarius Moon; Pisces Rising Jens Brage Sun November 08 1964 Scorpio Rising Lynn Garrett Sat November 08 1958 Scorpio Sam Murgie Fri November 08 1957 Scorpio Rachel Kramer Bussel Mon November 10 1975 Scorpio Neb Rodgers Tue November 10 1959 Space Available - Inquire Within Ken Latta Sun November 11 1951 Scorpio Craig Gidney November 11 Scorpio Michael Doyle Wed November 12 1969 Scorpio - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:53:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Lauren Young Subject: Show announcements & request Hi everyone, Just a thought... I enjoy seeing people post local shows of interest on the list, but many of these shows are far away and will definitely not be attended by me or any of my likeminded friends. Listmembers who live in, say, London might be disappointed (best case scenario!) to pore over an e-mail message only to find that a show by a new find or unknown artist is taking place in San Francisco. Those messages can be useful and interesting if the sender adds a good description of the artist for the uninitiated, but often that's not the case. Given that, I think it is a good idea to post the city or region of a show in email headers to help those of us who subscribe to many lists to get through our pile of daily e-mail. I now return you to your regularly scheduled ecto-mail... *click* Lauren np: Patti Scialfa, "23rd Street Lullaby", via RealRhapsody nr: A. S. Byatt, "Possession" ===== "You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." -- Malcolm X __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:30:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Neile Graham Subject: Innocence Mission News For those interested in the Innocence Mission or in purchasing music for a good cause. [BTW, just FYI, I replied that The Ectophiles' Guide doesn't include advertising, but we'd be happy to review the disc speedily.] - --Neile - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:09:12 -0700 From: Pascal Rodriguez Renaud To: ectoguide@smoe.org Subject: Ectophiles' Guide - Correction Name: Pascal Rodriguez Renaud Email: pascal.rodriguez@net2000.ch Topic: Correction Hi, I'm Pascal from Switzerland. I hope everything is well for you. I read your positive reviews about the band "The Innocence Mission" at this page (http://ectoguide.org/artists/innocence.mission) and I wish to tell you their second benefit record is being released on November 9. It's already available on the record label website here - http://www.badmanrecordingco.com/ . Jazz-tinged and dreamy, this new offering from The Innocence Mission collects standards and traditional songs that singer Karen Peris has sung to her children as lullabies since they were born. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to organizations working to aid impoverished children throughout Africa. "After hearing Bono speak this past May at my brother's college graduation about the plight of orphaned children in South Africa, our plans to make another benefit record were strengthened and propelled and we worked more quickly and spontaneously than usual. We recorded most of the songs over a three week period this summer, late at night, and it was really great fun. A lot of the singing was done live to Don's guitar playing. The spaciousness of the arrangements allowed for piano and pump organ and Mike's upright bass, " says Karen Peris. ... Would the Ectophiles' editors like to do something to advertise the album, support the band in their cause and try to make a few more sales for the children ? Your website would make such a nice difference... The song "What a Wonderful World" is free for download here : http:// www.badmanrecordingco.com/audio/over/03_wonderful_world.mp3 Thanks for reading, My best wishes to you, Pascal - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Found the guide thus: search (The Innocence Mission) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SERVER: ectoguide.usrbin.ca:80 - 2004-10-13 01:09:12 REMOTE HOST: unknown (80.83.48.67) BROWSER: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; fr-fr) AppleWebKit/125.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.9 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:03:33 -0400 From: "Kevin D. F. Highnight" Subject: question for CD burning enthusiasts I am looking for the perfect CD burning program. I am tired of using Adaptec's Easy CD Creator which came with my system. This is what I want to do; hopefully some of you can point me in the right direction: First of all, I want to continue making an IMAGE - that way I only have to copy tracks from the original CDs ONE time - and the CUSTOM CD stays in my memory so I can burn a copy at any time. Is there a program out there that let's you correct an IMAGE......say one of the tracks skipped - can I re-record just THAT track and insert it into the IMAGE? Or do I have to sit down and make a brand new IMAGE and HOPE that this time it turns out right? is there a program that actually DETECTS when a disc skips? Easy CD Creator stops making the IMAGE if it can't read the track - that is I thought that's how it worked. I guess it only stops if the track is REALLY messed up. Lately the tiniest scratches have been showing up on my CD-R's. My burner used to read and copy lightly scratched songs perfectly. Does this mean my drive is going bad? Secondly, I want a program that will record the CD TEXT info. Easy CD Creator is SUPPOSED to, but that function has never worked unless I am copying an entire disc using CD COPIER versus the CD Creator program. Third.......I want a program that will let me manipulate the silence between each track - or let me insert track stops in the middle of songs without breaking the sections up with silence. Easy CD Creator is SUPPOSED to let me AT LEAST remove the 2 second silence gaps, but once again that feature DOES NOT and has NEVER worked. I'm assuming that is because I didn't BUY the software alone. Foghorn J. Fornorn told me about a program he uses called CDRWIN from Golden Hawk Technology which would give me CD TEXT and gap manipulation. But I didn't ask him at that time about burning an IMAGE versus individual discs each time. I'm assuming most programs probably offer either - I don't know. I've only used Adaptec's. And finally.......is there a program that allows you to amplify the volume of the songs? Older CD's were recorded at lower volumes and when you make a CD-R using various sources, you get a disc that has to be turned up and down continuously. I've seen freeware programs online that do it automatically when burning discs - but didn't know if they did a good job of it OR if ever they amped it too much and you got distortion. I hope someone can give me some good advice. Thank you SO very much for your help. Kevin D. F. Highnight Highnight@peoplepc.com _____________________________________________ "I was Silent - I was locked Away, But I covered my Tears - Silent all day, It's out of my Hands yeah... In my Distress...well I wanted someone to blame me, In my Devastation...I wanted so to change, In my way...Disaster was the only thing that I could depend on......." Stevie Nicks DOING THE BEST THAT I CAN (ESCAPE FROM BERLIN) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:58:21 +0200 From: Dierk Schlie Subject: Re: Sarah McLachlan's latest video, was (Michel Gondry, bjork video As far as I know Mozilla can't play the video from http://www.worldonfire.ca/ because of the Quicktime plug-in you need, works with the Internet Explorer. And if you want to have the video on your hard disk, you download it from (right click and save ...) ... you need a free Quicktime player if you don#t have one installed: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/ Enjoy the fine video ... dierk 2345 schrieb: >> When I tried this, it linked to an Apple site, and tried to use iTunes's >> proprietary "itms" protocol. What player did you use to see it without >> iTunes? > > Damn!! I swear I watched this 4 or 5 times a week or two ago and it was just > fine. I just tried it again just now and it did the same thing it did for you. > That pisses me off! When I looked at it before, it opened up a new window and > played it right in the window, no actual player (I use Mozilla 1.7b) > > Not so happy with this vid anymore :( Sorry!! I wish I still had the old link, > but I don't. > > Bummer... > > ~Amy > ... - -- now playing: *************************************** Trading Live Music: http://www.yellow-tigerduck.de/ Dierk Schlie dierk.schlie@snafu.de Hasenhvhe 114 D22587 Hamburg Germany Tel.: + 49 40 59 57 74 Fax.: + 49 40 500 46 02 *************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:20:47 -0700 (PDT) From: alan Subject: Re: question for CD burning enthusiasts On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Kevin D. F. Highnight wrote: > I am looking for the perfect CD burning program. I am tired of using > Adaptec's Easy CD Creator which came with my system. This is what I want > to do; hopefully some of you can point me in the right direction: You forgot to mention your OS. (Which is Windows. At least you don't use Outlook.) I don't know of anything that will do what you want under Windows. There are a few tools under Linux that come close. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:29:09 -0400 From: DanStark <2004.carnivore99@verizon.net> Subject: Re: question for CD burning enthusiasts Kevin D. F. Highnight wrote: I am looking for the perfect CD burning program. Take a look at Sony CD Architect. It has quite a learning curve and I'm not sure if it will do all the things you want, but it's very powerful. A demo version is available at: http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/Products/showproduct.asp?PID=780 Easy CD Creator does support gap manipulation but I believe you need to use the Deluxe version, and you must be in Disc At Once burning mode. Alcohol 120% is good for making ISO CD images. Ahead Nero is both powerful and popular. It's the one I use the most, but I don't think it will do everything on your list. Exact Audio Copy is the most accurate ripper you'll find. It's slower than most but if your goal is to eliminate skips and glitches it's the only way to go. As far as I know it only rips individual tracks though, not images (I could be wrong though). www.exactaudiocopy.de Your perfect solution may very well involve using more than one program in combination. Good luck. Dan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:01:11 -0500 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Re: Sarah McLachlan's latest video, was (Michel Gondry, bjork video At 04:58 AM 10/13/2004, Dierk wrote: >As far as I know Mozilla can't play the video from http://www.worldonfire.ca/ >because of the Quicktime plug-in you need, works with the Internet Explorer. perhaps straight Mozilla can't, but this time I was reading the listmail at home (at work the corporate firewall blocks high bandwidth video & audio) and Mozilla Firefox 5.0/rev1.7 had no problem opening the web page with the QT player in the middle. and no attempt to force me to iTunes protocol. Interesting video ... I presume intentionally transparently "lip synched" on the few Sarah shots too. Regards, Carolyn Andre - --- candre@house-of-music.com Chicago, IL / USA Support Independent Music! Use the Internet http://house-of-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:26:52 -0700 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Re: question for CD burning enthusiasts On 13 Oct 2004, at 18:03, Kevin D. F. Highnight wrote: > I am looking for the perfect CD burning program. I am tired of using > Adaptec's Easy CD Creator which came with my system. It's been awhile since I used a Windows CD burning program, but I liked Exact Audio Copy when I was a Windows user. Although it started out as a simple DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) tool, hence the name, it added the CD burning functionality. The most important thing that EAC will do for you is eliminate any errors that you will get when you extract the audio from the original disc. Getting your WAVs off of disc will probably be slower than you're used to, but you're essentially guaranteed that you'll get a perfect (pop- and skip-free) track. I've had EAC extract audio off of discs that my audio CD player wouldn't recognise at all. It was slow, but I got the songs. :) EAC will write CD Text. You need to do it in the cue sheet. The cue sheet is also where you determine how much silence (if any) should be between songs. (For the record, Easy CD Creator should've let you burn without the two-second gap between songs, but getting it to do it right was (IIRC) difficult to figure out.) The built-in WAV editor will perform normalisation, which will take care of your problem of different songs having different volumes on your final disc. One word of warning: EAC is not for the faint-of-heart. Getting it set up right is non-trivial, and the interface leaves a lot to be desired. EAC will do all that you want it to do, but it's not going to be easy. Now that I've gotten that caveat out of the way, if you're still interested, you can read through the info at . Good luck! :) /nm ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #286 ***************************