Re: Bye Bye iPod
By: Moondog to MRO on Wed May 18 2022 10:39 pm

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lesser or in house brand from Walmart, or other mega stores. Sad part s somed
of the older brand names I could trust have all been bought up and now produce clothing in others countries cheaper. Not just in price cheaper, but cheaply made.

I don't mind burning cheap jeans and work pants if i can buy three or

four
pair for the price of whatever the cool brand goes for. Shoes are a different story because I wear through cheap shoes faster and the price savings isn't that great. I can recycle faded or old clothes for home use. worn out shoes are worn out shoes regardless.

i pretty much wear the same shit every week because i don't want to dig through my clothes. i have nice shoes, too. i have about 20 pairs of shoes and boots. same with leather jackets.
i also probably have like 200 carhartt shirts. i wish i could send them back to be dyed again. they just fade but they are in good shape.

i don't care anymore. i'm old.

atleast i dont stink!

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Re: Re: Bye Bye iPod
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 17 2022 01:11 pm

Re: Re: Bye Bye iPod
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ogg on Mon May 16 2022 06:33 am

I do miss ripping CDs, while getting all the metadata right - that's one thing I appreciate iTunes for.

There are also other CD ripping programs that can download the metadata and apply it to MP3/FLAC/etc. files automatically. And other programs like MP3T make it easy to update common tags in multiple files (such as album name and cover photo, auto-incrementing track numbers, etc.).

Nightfox

Long time GRIP user here. It will be a sad day when it is no longer runnable. Insert the CD, it gets the tags from CDDB (or whatever free equivalent is around now), easy to configure and simple.

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Re: Re: Bye Bye iPod
By: Boraxman to Nightfox on Thu May 19 2022 07:19 pm

Long time GRIP user here. It will be a sad day when it is no longer runnable. Insert the CD, it gets the tags from CDDB (or whatever free equivalent is around now), easy to configure and simple.

I've used GRIP before, but I've done most of my ripping in Windows.

I do enjoy being able to rip discs and do what I want with the files. I still occasionally rip movies from blu-ray disc to put up on my Plex media server. Recently I've been happy to see that there are Linux versions of some of the video transcoding tools I use (namely, Handbrake), though I haven't really checked for a Linux program that can rip blu-ray discs. For ripping blu-ray discs, I tend to use MakeMKV these days, and that's only available for Windows and Mac OS X. Perhaps it would run under Wine, but I haven't tried that.

Nightfox

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Hello MRO!

** On Sunday 15.05.22 - 17:59, MRO wrote to Ogg:

For me, I find that the iTunes prog is quite a fine
performer as a database for local tunes. I still use
10.5.0.142 on my XP machines. One of them shares its
repository with another iTunes repository that I have on a
Win7/64 desktop.

It is also a very capable ripper, and converter.

so what do you mean by 'database'? you mean you can search
all the songs you have? you can do that without itunes if
htat's what you mean.

Just searching for tunes using Explorer or CLI is not the same
thing. With the mp3 tags in place, it's very easy too look up a
genre, a year, any part of the artist's name or title. iTunes
as a local music database manager is very quick. Plus.. I
liked the built-in local network support to share tunes across
PCs.

i'm still using winamp here.

I had to drop Winamp for some reason.. don't remember what. I
used it quite a bit with my WinME set up.

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