I feel 20 years young with...
iTunes. I love it. Why? Well, in the '80's I used to make cassette tape recordings of my favorite songs on my LP collection. Boy, did I ever have an LP collection. From '60's, '70's and eighties. From Jimi to Sid. From Echo and the Bunnymen to the Plasmatics. Lots. I would put one on, put a tape in, cue it and select a track on the LP...release pause on the recorder and find the next tracks on LP's I wanted to record and bam! A cool cassette of favorites. It took a lot of time and effort but it was worth it. I sold most of my LPs but still have the cassettes and play them every once in a while.
Now with iTunes it's so much more easier and fun. I go to work in the morning, fire up Kaza and download the exact same tunes I have on the cassette collections. Then take them home load the mp3's on the Mac, fire up iTunes and set up a playlist. When i have them ready to go I pull out a CD-R and burn! I LOVE IT!
Sorry, had to get this off my chest and share with you all. I guess I sound dated, but I really never had fun with CDs and the inability to really create one that suits my tastes. Now with iTunes (and the total EASE of the Mac OS) I do and it brought back those memories of recording LPs and all...very cool.
Anyone as ecstatic as me?
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Now with iTunes it's so much more easier and fun. I go to work in the morning, fire up Kaza and download the exact same tunes I have on the cassette collections. Then take them home load the mp3's on the Mac, fire up iTunes and set up a playlist. When i have them ready to go I pull out a CD-R and burn! I LOVE IT!
Sorry, had to get this off my chest and share with you all. I guess I sound dated, but I really never had fun with CDs and the inability to really create one that suits my tastes. Now with iTunes (and the total EASE of the Mac OS) I do and it brought back those memories of recording LPs and all...very cool.
Anyone as ecstatic as me?
<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
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I have to agree. I remember as a child making mix tapes off the radio complete with phones ringing in the backround and whatnot. This was fun...it was my own customization. That's what develops a music listener.
The Internet not only has allowed me to check out new artists but it allows some nifty collaboration between artists that was more difficult back in the day.
While I might start burning music CD's I'm leaning towards a MP3 player for home and
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I was always a "custom mix cassette maker" back in my teens. Get my LPs and play a song and hope I started the tape record on time. Took FOREVER.
Now, with iTunes and all my CDs and the iMac, it's beautiful. I make about one "driving music" mix CD a month.
Or I'll make my own "greatest hits" CDs, pulled from all my favorite songs on all the CDs I own of a particular artist (Dwight Yoakam, Chris Isaak, Sheryl Crow, etc.).
iTunes, in my opinion, is the one iApp I couldn't do without.
Not having a digital camera or camcorder, I don't give a rat's ass about the others. But iTunes? In lots of ways, my favorite - and most used - program!
Now, the voice of reason: you need Kaza. As far as I now, that's not a Mac app...
And, didn't I hear that Tigerwoords99 got banned for promoting (?) pirating?
Hell, I do it all the time, don't want to be holier than the pope, just, you mentioning Kaza, it's one thing that the Mac just isn't as good at (Kazaa and WinMX, now that appears to be good stuff).
(Not me though
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Now, the voice of reason: you need Kaza. As far as I now, that's not a Mac app...
... it's one thing that the Mac just isn't as good at (Kazaa and WinMX, now that appears to be good stuff).</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't know much about this stuff (and I've never heard of WinMX) but I thought that Kazaa had abandoned their fastrack system and was now just a frontend for gnutella. To be precise, a spyware infested front end. If this is true then MacOS
X has several swiftly developing open-source gnutella clients (Aquasition, Fern...almost certainly more), so I would call it a draw.
Burning a CD is far less work so it makes the CD more disposable IMO.
I used to make tapes for friends or *ahem* chicks and making CDs isn't the same. It's too easy now to just grab any song you can think of and have the computer do all the work.
I can remember spending 12 hours making mix tapes out of LPs and other tapes with my brother before road trip vacations. Ah... memories.
It took about 1:45 to make a 90 minute tape. heh.
Other than that, being 18 iTunes does not make me feel younger. It does make mp3 cd burning a little easier though; I can set up a smart playlist and quickly burn a cd in the few minutes before work... uh-oh, I'm late for work.
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The other day we decided to drive to a city 1 1/2 hours away to check out a store we don't have here, and to have lunch. I was getting tired of the 'Driving Tunes' CD I'd had in the player for a few weeks, so I decided to make another. In the time it took my wife and daughter to get their shoes on and get in the car, I had a new CD burned. Just too cool.
Now what I really need is an iPod, and I could skip the entire CD-R thing all together...
I'm with Paul, if I could only have one iApp, it would be iTunes for sure.
<strong>Now, the voice of reason: you need Kaza. As far as I now, that's not a Mac app...</strong><hr></blockquote>
No, it ain't. I use Kazaa Lite at work on my Windoze 98 machine. We have DSL...at home I have a modem. I tell you one thing...I never have a great time using the CD burner or using Windoze Media Player on my Windoze machine...a real pain in the ass (I don't want to get into it...why should I? This is a MAC forum). I just download the MP3's, copy them onto a Zip disk and bring them home into iTunes.
[quote] <strong>And, didn't I hear that Tigerwoords99 got banned for promoting (?) pirating?</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's his problem. I don't give a shit. I never had the cops come or have some jerk off whine to me when I brought my mixed cassette tapes from albums or copies of videos at parties. I think the whole thing about copying anything a joke...unless you're going to burn 1,500 CD's/DVD's and sell them on the street. The entertainment industry won't lose money over any regular individual creating a single, personal use CD or video. Let them go after the real theives who sell bootlegs and crap...leave ME alone.
Software is another issue though...
[quote] <strong>Hell, I do it all the time, don't want to be holier than the pope, just, you mentioning Kaza, it's one thing that the Mac just isn't as good at (Kazaa and WinMX, now that appears to be good stuff).</strong><hr></blockquote>
If I ever get a broadband connection that'll be the first software I'll get for my Mac! I'm happy to hear that some of us did the mix tapes. I still will buy CD's when I want, but most of the MP3's I find and download are rare, hard to find tunes. Plus tunes on CD's that I wouldn't purchase because maybe only one or two tunes are GOOD on the CD.
I maen where will you find Iggy and the Stooges doing "You Really Got Me" live? And why spend money for the whole CD when you can get the only one you want online? Whatever...
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I think the cool thing was that you had to actually sit there and listen to the songs as you were taping, and all the while getting ideas for the next track (what would sound good, will it fit on the last bit of side one?).
I agree that iTunes is the most important and usable App on the Mac, but it can be "too easy" to just drag this track and that track to a playlist without listening to them first and getting the "inspiration" as you go.
On the subject, anyone seen "High Fidelity" with John Cusack?
Excellent film! Here's a man that KNOWS what a mix tape is!
<strong>I think the cool thing was that you had to actually sit there and listen to the songs as you were taping, and all the while getting ideas for the next track (what would sound good, will it fit on the last bit of side one?).
I agree that iTunes is the most important and usable App on the Mac, but it can be "too easy" to just drag this track and that track to a playlist without listening to them first and getting the "inspiration". </strong><hr></blockquote>
Hmm? I do that in iTunes. I make a playlist (Rockabilly let's say). Then drag all the tunes into the playlist window. Then play all or each one, checking off or deleting the ones I don't want and moving one tune above or below each other to finish the set-up before burning.
Lot easier than dropping the needle onto the track on the LP...playing...lifting the needle...dropping it again. With iTunes you can drag that track progress thingy and hear the end of the song to see if it'll go well with the next tune.
Just wish you could control the equalizers on each track or even have that fade in and out of tracks for burning purposes...seems that only works when playing them locally... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
In the 80's NOBODY made this "£$ noise of the kids that record from radio or lps.. not this same "$£% mess than they try to do with the mp3s
I hav some 30 cds of mp3s and right now i ì'm having an overdose of them...
dunno anymore what i'd like to download.. or listen.. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
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Flashback to 1977, sitting in my room with 2 fold up record players and doing the fade in/out mixes from all of our albums and 45's for our "one speaker" cassette players we had("stereo players" strained the paper route budget too much). We all shared music with our friends, recorded cassettes and kept the copies for ourselves.....
SWOOSH...back to 2002, sitting in my computer room with one mac, iTunes (thank you Apple) , limewire and broadband, sharing some music with my "online" friends and burning cd's for my own enjoyment...
I guess the only thing that's changed is instead of a few dozen "close by" real friends, my neighborhood has become global.
oh and the recording quality is WAY better.