From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #171 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, June 21 2005 Volume 11 : Number 171 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] miscellany [paul kim ] RE: Music Suggestions Please ["Patrick M. Kingsley" ] Re: burning iTunes [Michael Pearce ] rebecca timmons question [gordodo@optonline.net] Re: burning iTunes [robert bristow-johnson ] Re: rebecca timmons question [Damon ] Mila Drumke news [Paul Blair ] Quick tech question (print_directory.bat) ["Xenu's Sister" Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* David Lubkin (no Email address) ********************* ********************* Marisa Wood (no Email address) ********************** ***************** Cheri Villines (cvilline@comp.uark.edu) ***************** ********************** Ray Misra (no Email address) *********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- David Lubkin Fri June 20 1958 OurLady Marisa Wood Fri June 20 1969 Gemini Cheri Villines Sun June 20 1965 Gemini-Leo rising Ray Misra Sat June 20 1970 Gemini Nik Popa Sun June 22 1969 Cancer Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Ethan Straffin Thu June 24 1971 Cancer Kevin Dekan Mon June 27 1960 Cancer Samantha Tanner Tue June 30 1970 Wild Goose BunkyTom Tue July 02 1968 Cancer Anders Hallberg Tue July 03 1962 Cancer Kevin Harkins Thu July 05 1973 Cancer Laurel Krahn Mon July 05 1971 Cancer John J Henshon Mon July 05 1954 The Year Of The Horse / Ruled By The Moon Jim Gurley Mon July 06 1959 Cancer Lisa Rouchka Fri July 08 1960 Moonchild with Java Rising Courtney Dallas Fri July 09 1971 Catte Michael Peskura Sat July 09 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. Tsai Sat July 09 1966 Cancer Larry Greenfield Tue July 11 1950 Virgo Rising; Gemini Moon Marion Kippers Tue July 13 1965 Kreeft Ellen Rawson Thu July 13 1961 Double Cancer Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer R. Rapp Wed July 14 1954 On a Gray Eye Sojourn John Zimmer Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Dan Stark Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Cathy Guetzlaff Mon July 18 1955 Cancer Vlad Sat July 18 1970 Warning: severe tire damage Jani Pinola Thu July 20 1972 Jonquil - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 23:55:57 -0700 From: paul kim Subject: miscellany I'm very bummed that I am missing Feist and Rilo Kiley tonight in L.A., but I had no one to go with. And I've really been getting into Rilo Kiley's latest CD in recent weeks. If anyone has the time, Feist will be on Morning Becomes Eclectic monday morning at 11:15 AM PST. You can check it out at KCRW.com, and I'm pretty sure the audio and video will be archived for future viewings. Also in their archives are performances last week by Martha Wainwright, Australian Missy Higgins (she also did a cover of Patty Griffin's "Moses" that you might be able to locate in the playlist for MBE on Thursday), and Keren Anne. For etheral/ectronic recommendations, you could try Caroline Lavelle, a cellist/singer who toured with Loreena McKennitt and worked with William Orbit; Canadian Esthero; Emiliana Torrini's first album (her second one is more acoustic but still excellent); Lisa Gerrard. In addition to here and the ectoguide, there's another really nice resource for womenmusic in the form of a music blog called Womenfolk. http://www.womenfolk.net It's just turned one-year old, and has been evolving into a very very well-done website with mp3s and lots of good information. Peruse the archives, and you'll be surprised to see names like Veda Hille, Wild Strawberries, Katell Keinig, Jen Trynin, Sam Phillips, and Magnapop among scores of other artists who many of us are familiar with, but the rest of the world unfortunately isn't. I don't think the site owner, Robbie, is a member here, although I have directed him to the ectoguide before. Heather Nova has a new album coming out later this summer? paulkim ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:56:09 -0400 From: "Patrick M. Kingsley" Subject: RE: Music Suggestions Please As a huge Happy Rhodes fan as well as Kate Bush, Sarah McLachlan, and many others, one of the bands that has caught my attention in recent years is this English/Celtic folk rock band called Equation. The first time I heard them, I thought that one of the local artists here in Charlottesville had gone more mainstream, but I was greatly mistaken. Their music is kinda light and folky with violin and lots of rich harmonies. Most of the music is pretty upbeat, but not too aggressive. I highly recommend "The Lucky Few" and "Hazy Daze", which were the two CDs I started with. They have a website if you are curious: http://www.scoyote.net/equation/Equationfm/Index.htm They are supposed to have a US tour this summer, although I haven't heard any updates in a while ... Patrick M. Kingsley Computer Systems Engineer - University of Virginia "To talk goodness is not good, only to do it is." -Chinese proverb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:39:42 -0700 From: Michael Pearce Subject: Re: burning iTunes At 1:55 AM -0400 6/20/05, Bowen Simmons wrote: >On Jun 19, 2005, at 1:18 AM, London, Sherry wrote: >> >> An unchanged playlist that contains songs purchased from the iTunes >> Music Store can be burned no more than seven times. >> >> Excuse me for having a blonde moment, I am not understanding. are you >> saying that if I move around the songs I have purchased add or subtract >> a song or two, I can down load [burn] them without limit? > >That is exactly what I am saying. The policy is intended as a >speed-bump for people trying to make manufacture copies of the same CD >for distribution; it is intended to hinder their production plans. It >is a policy that has no real effect on people making CD's for personal >use. My only criticism of iTunes is that the compression rate is too low. I always rip CDs (and converted vinyl) at the 2nd highest quality MP3 instead of AAC because the format is more compatible and very little original signal is lost. So I can stuff only 6 CDs onto an MP3 CD instead of 11. Big loss. More important, you should always export your iTunes Music Store purchases to AIFF and re-import them as high-quality MP3s. That strips off the DRM so you can do whatever you want with them, including play them on other kinds of players. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:28:14 -0400 From: gordodo@optonline.net Subject: rebecca timmons question Quick question (2 parter) Whatever happened to Rebecca Timmons? I was listening to her debut the other day and forgot how good it was... Does anyone know where to track down her 2nd album "the turing point" - I see it listed at amazon but with no copies ever available and never see anything on ebay or gemm.com... - -jason np Vienna Teng - Warm Strangers, The Nields - Gotta Get Over Greta, Heather Nova - live in luxembourg 1998 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:23:08 -0400 From: robert bristow-johnson Subject: Re: burning iTunes on 06/20/2005 11:39, Michael Pearce at mp@moonmac.com wrote: > At 1:55 AM -0400 6/20/05, Bowen Simmons wrote: > >> On Jun 19, 2005, at 1:18 AM, London, Sherry wrote: >>> >>> An unchanged playlist that contains songs purchased from the iTunes >>> Music Store can be burned no more than seven times. >>> >>> Excuse me for having a blonde moment, I am not understanding. are you >>> saying that if I move around the songs I have purchased add or subtract >>> a song or two, I can down load [burn] them without limit? >> >> That is exactly what I am saying. The policy is intended as a >> speed-bump for people trying to make manufacture copies of the same CD >> for distribution; it is intended to hinder their production plans. It >> is a policy that has no real effect on people making CD's for personal >> use. > > My only criticism of iTunes is that the compression rate is too low. > I always rip CDs (and converted vinyl) at the 2nd highest quality MP3 > instead of AAC because the format is more compatible and very little > original signal is lost. So I can stuff only 6 CDs onto an MP3 CD > instead of 11. Big loss. > > More important, you should always export your iTunes Music Store > purchases to AIFF and re-import them as high-quality MP3s. That > strips off the DRM so you can do whatever you want with them, > including play them on other kinds of players. yeah, and if you have Toast, you can burn these AIFF files to regular old CD without compression and you lose not a tittle of information. Toast Audio Extractor will lift tracks off of CD without converting to MP3 as iTunes does. it's 10 megabyte per minute of music, but that's okay. - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:53:56 -0700 From: Damon Subject: Re: rebecca timmons question wow, what ectosyncrhonicity - out of curiosity, i just went to check out rebecca's site yesterday. it's been taken over by one of those search engine affiliate cookie cutter site dealies. i ordered a copy of `the turing event' directly from rebecca a year or two ago, but that was back when she had a site. i guess i'm lucky i got it when i did! she never actually cashed the cheque i sent, either. - -damon On 20 Jun, gordodo@optonline.net wrote: > Quick question (2 parter) > > Whatever happened to Rebecca Timmons? I was listening to her debut the other > day and forgot how good it was... > > Does anyone know where to track down her 2nd album "the turing point" - I > see it listed at amazon but with no copies ever available and never see > anything on ebay or gemm.com... > > -jason > > np Vienna Teng - Warm Strangers, The Nields - Gotta Get Over Greta, Heather > Nova - live in luxembourg 1998 - -- dl+ecto@usrbin.ca: protecting my real address since 2002 (too late!) > EWS starts here! < ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:10:46 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: Mila Drumke news At last Thursday night's Mila Drumke show at The Living Room in Manhattan, Mila played a new song, "Radiate." It didn't quite gel for me on first listening but I think I'm going to like it once I hear it once or twice more. Lyris announced that the new album is done, but there is no release date set yet. Mila announced that she's moving back to New York City in two weeks, so she ought to be playing more often. Yay Three Times! pb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:45:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Quick tech question (print_directory.bat) I installed a "print_directory.bat" directly into my C drive so I could have a list of all my backup folders and their contents. Some folders are packed with thousands of mp3s (that I had on my salvaged C drive, yay!), so I didn't want to manually type in what was in the folders. The only problem is that I have to make sure there's no paper in the printer because, at this point, I don't want a paper copy. I might in the future but not now. Here is the bat file: @echo off dir %1 /o:g/s > c:\directory.txt start /w notepad /p c:\directory.txt exit What do I need to do to make it print to a txt file only, and not go to the printer? Take out the /p? V - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:56:59 -0400 From: Michael Matthews Subject: Re: Quick tech question (print_directory.bat) - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Xenu's Sister wrote: > I installed a "print_directory.bat" directly into my C > drive so I could have a list of all my backup folders > and their contents. Some folders are packed with thousands > of mp3s (that I had on my salvaged C drive, yay!), so I > didn't want to manually type in what was in the folders. > > The only problem is that I have to make sure there's > no paper in the printer because, at this point, I > don't want a paper copy. I might in the future but > not now. > > Here is the bat file: > > @echo off > dir %1 /o:g/s > c:\directory.txt > start /w notepad /p c:\directory.txt > exit > > What do I need to do to make it print to a txt file only, > and not go to the printer? Take out the /p? > > V If all you're looking for is a text file (no special formatting) containing the contents of the directory passed as the argument, that will be in c:\directory.txt after the first command anyway, or am I not understanding what you're looking for? Mike - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCt3PrWf1dN6x0qKQRAho2AJ9eNBCxduMpTR/J++Ea0nQayt8F/gCfakmW LqK065dzBlycJDNdE79H2Y4= =SdR7 - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:14:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: Quick tech question (print_directory.bat) I just want text files of what's in my directories. I used to have a shareware program that did it, but I never used it and that was long ago. I was searching for another way to get a list of what's on the backup discs, and I came across a "Make your own bat file" tip, which is what I did. I don't understand enough about it to know what I can take out so that it will give me a nice text file (HappysMusicBackup1of3.txt, MyPicturesBackup.txt, etc.) without going to the printer. - --- Michael Matthews wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Xenu's Sister wrote: > > Here is the bat file: > > > > @echo off > > dir %1 /o:g/s > c:\directory.txt > > start /w notepad /p c:\directory.txt > > exit > > > > What do I need to do to make it print to a txt file only, > > and not go to the printer? Take out the /p? > > > > V > > If all you're looking for is a text file (no special > formatting) containing the contents of the directory > passed as the argument, that will be in c:\directory.txt > after the first command anyway, or am I not understanding > what you're looking for? So I can edit the bat file to this: @echo off dir %1 /o:g/s > c:\directory.txt exit And that's all I need to do? - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #171 ***************************