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MP3s - to rip or to purchase?


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Yep ripping vinyl is thankless and flawed :)

 

Except for those rarities and singles a d stuff

You missed the key word -"old"!!! Ripping them when new is a wise and manageable task. But when you've used and abused them for years or picked secondhand stuff in playable but not perfect condition, the odd soft click that doesn't bother you when listening has a terrible habit of spiking the shit out of recording levels and fucking up levels, etc.

 

I do agree that there's always lots of records you just can't find digitally though, especially those ones you pick up that don't really declare what they are on the label. When you've known them simply by sight of the label for years, putting their name in a search engine isn't easy ;)

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step 1)
Just play crusty C-90 cassettes of dusty old hip hop and pre 1980's Funk.

step 2)
Tell everyone to go fuck themselves if they can't handle it that you're in charge.

step 3)
Put Cypress Hill on first.

 

 

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LOL

 

 

 

Yep ripping vinyl is thankless and flawed :)

Except for those rarities and singles a d stuff


You missed the key word -"old"!!! Ripping them when new is a wise and manageable task. But when you've used and abused them for years or picked secondhand stuff in playable but not perfect condition, the odd soft click that doesn't bother you when listening has a terrible habit of spiking the shit out of recording levels and fucking up levels, etc.

 

Yeah, exactly. Buy all the easy-to-come-by stuff on digital and rip the exclusive stuff (of which there won't be a great deal, in my case).

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A tip if you use MusicBee.....

 

You can always grab the latest beta version here: -

 

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip

 

Then, with MusicBee closed, just extract the contents of that zip to MusicBee's installation directory, overwriting the files that are already there, and you're done. An updated zip file will be available via that same link every few days, sometimes every day.

 

I wouldn't typically recommend running beta software over a stable build, but in this case the developer is really on the ball. As main builds are only released every few months, betas often contain multiple new features and bug fixes that aren't in the main build available on the regular download page.

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