Re: MD: Napster

2000-07-27 Thread Dan Frakes
las <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What is the matter with the record companies?? Half of the music that >is on Napster can't even be found anywhere!! It's not like you can go >to Tower records and buy the CD. I'd be willing to bet all the money to my name that 99% of the songs on Napster are av

Re: MD: Napster and my venting

2000-07-27 Thread Dan Frakes
"Link :-7" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What has the recording industry done for me? They've saturated the >Media with sh|t music... Brittany Spears, BackStreet Boys, Eminem, >Limp Bizkit (I don't care how PRO-Napster they are, they still suck), >oh, I forgot about the whole Latin Explosion too

Re: MD: Napster

2000-07-27 Thread Dan Frakes
"Matthew Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, here is a question for you all then, if the RIAA is s against >napster, why havn't they tried to ban news servers? they have been around a >H*ll of a lot longer than napster and i am 110% positive more copyrighted >material has been downloaded fr

MD: LiP-12 battery source

2000-07-27 Thread Kiran Wagle
I've lost one of my three LiP-12(H) batteries. Does anyone know of a source for these? Thanks. ~ Kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 1628 5th St NW Wash DC 20001 (202) 483-3373 - To stop getting this

Re: MD: Napster NATIONAL BOYCOTT

2000-07-27 Thread PrinceGaz
From: "Ryan Hutson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.boycott-riaa.com/ > More info on how to help fuel the boycott on the RIAA. I knew I would get some dubious info from thr RIAA site, but what I found at one point forced me to leave the computer in disgust. Most artists get bugger all of the c

Re: MD: Napster NATIONAL BOYCOTT

2000-07-27 Thread Ryan Hutson
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/ More info on how to help fuel the boycott on the RIAA. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MD: Brand New Web Site and New Payment Option !

2000-07-27 Thread Peter Forest
Good Evening Everybody ! I just publish our Brand New Web Site and Our Brand New Online Secure Store... We have now a Great Payment Option... If you pay with Paypal, there is only one shipping price for any quantity of your selected product. This feature is offer on mostly all products. So if y

Re: MD: Napster

2000-07-27 Thread PrinceGaz
From: "Mark Derricutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The problem here, is that when Naspter (the company) vanishes, Napster > (the protocol, the program) remains. When the courts closed down Napsters > main server, what happened? the service still runs, you just tell your > napster program to use a diff

Re: MD: Napster

2000-07-27 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, PrinceGaz wrote: > Trading Standards here in Britain, he's a good guy who is serious > about his job and I think he'll have no regrets when Napster vanishes. > I understand how he feels but Napster do not themselves do anything > wrong, they merely The problem here, is th

Re: MD: Napster NATIONAL BOYCOTT

2000-07-27 Thread PrinceGaz
From: "las" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think that there should be a national boycott on buying prerecorded CDs and > tapes. If the record industry's sales dropped by 25% or more, I think that > they would be forced to have a change of heart!! Or should I say brain. I > think that shutting down Na

Re: MD: Napster NATIONAL BOYCOTT

2000-07-27 Thread las
I think that there should be a national boycott on buying prerecorded CDs and tapes. If the record industry's sales dropped by 25% or more, I think that they would be forced to have a change of heart!! Or should I say brain. I think that shutting down Napster is going to backfire on the music

Re: MD: Good Thought !

2000-07-27 Thread PrinceGaz
From: "Peter Forest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Think you may like this... > "Good needs evil if it is to be able to manifest itself. Without evil, good > will go to sleep, because there is nothing left to stimulate it. Evil > excites good, stimulates good and good is then able to manifest itself. It

Re: MD: Napster

2000-07-27 Thread PrinceGaz
From: "Matthew Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OK, here is a question for you all then, if the RIAA is s against > napster, why havn't they tried to ban news servers? they have been around a > H*ll of a lot longer than napster and i am 110% positive more copyrighted > material has been downloaded

Re: MD: Napster

2000-07-27 Thread Matthew Wall
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === OK, here is a question for you all then, if the

Re: MD: Napster

2000-07-27 Thread Graham Baker
When are the fat-cat suits in the music industry going to realise that it's too late - the cat's out of the bag. Sooner or later they will have to stop fighting 'it' and start to use 'it' as a marketing tool... On "Why the music industry has nothing to celebrate" ... http://www.salon.com/tech/

RE: MD: Good Thought !

2000-07-27 Thread Peter Forest
What is this ??? I sent a message to my friend... I simply reply to one of his message from the MD List... Sorry I didn't notice that it was sent to everyone here... Sorry Dear Stainless Steel Rat... Regards, Pierre. P.S. However, is a nice thoughts, isn't it ??? Maybe at the wrong place but

Re: MD: Napster

2000-07-27 Thread las
I think that I have a solution to the MP3 controversy. The reason that people are not paying for the songs is because THERE IS NO WAY TO PAY!! What is the matter with the record companies?? Half of the music that is on Napster can't even be found anywhere!! It's not like you can go to Tower r

Re: MD: Good Thought !

2000-07-27 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* "Peter Forest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 27 Jul 2000 | Think you may like this... Not really. Try to at least make an attempt at staying on topic. -- Rat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\ When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ returned to its special containe

Re: MD: Edd's extra tracks

2000-07-27 Thread David W. Tamkin
The Rodent wrote about all the extra track divisions Edd is getting, | There are a few other possibilities, but those are what I'd check first. Another one is that the source CD's tracks are subdivided with intra-track indices. The practice is rare, but the CD standard does support it, and I f

MD: Good Thought !

2000-07-27 Thread Peter Forest
Think you may like this... "Good needs evil if it is to be able to manifest itself. Without evil, good will go to sleep, because there is nothing left to stimulate it. Evil excites good, stimulates good and good is then able to manifest itself. It is thanks to evil that good is good. If ugliness

Re: MD: none

2000-07-27 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* "Edd Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 27 Jul 2000 | Now, it's a 16 track album - so why the hell have I ended up with over 70 | tracks?! I've only had the unit for 10months. Surely it can't be knackered | already? Things that could be wrong: Bad original (I had that happen with the BÖC

Re: MD: your mail

2000-07-27 Thread Mike Burger
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Are there any parts of the album where a track

Re: MD: Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:57:52 +0100

2000-07-27 Thread Edd Farmer
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Also, I get something that sounds like tape or

No Subject

2000-07-27 Thread Edd Farmer
Hello all! I was recording today the Limp Bizkit album to my MZ-R55, via the optical cable provided. It was done onto some gold-coloured Sony discs. Now, it's a 16 track album - so why the hell have I ended up with over 70 tracks?! I've only had the unit for 10months. Surely it can't be knac

RE: MD: JE520 transport mech repairs?

2000-07-27 Thread Alan Dowds
Wow - Richer Sounds backdated the warranty? That's bloody fantastic - did you have to haggle hard or did they just offer? Now no-one on this list will buy an extended warranty - you just wait till the thing breaks, then pay the extra! Amazing... Al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PRO

MD: Napster and my venting

2000-07-27 Thread Link :-7
Hi List, I totally agree with this the pay after you listen idea... How many times have you bought a $15 CD for "A" song you like, only to find the rest of the CD complete crap... I would bet the MONOPOLY recording industry puts $10 into their pocket on every CD sold in the US. Artist:

Re: MD: Mini Disc to CD-R Transfer

2000-07-27 Thread Timothy P. Stockman
I have the hardware one would need hooked to my computer (Sony MDS-PC2 with CAV50C, Maudio DIO 2448 (although 2496 is recomened) Sony Spressa CDX-120E USB CDRW). The problem is that no unified software exists. The MDS-PC2 is controlled by the"Minidisc Editor 2" program, while the Spressa CD re

RE: MD: the idea of supporting a band by buying their CD. More on a donation-based mp3 music industry

2000-07-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Greg Conquest > PS Still waiting to hear of any *viable* alternatives. How about sponsoring, Greg ? Just like sports players. []'s Flávio Moritz "Light fire with fire." - To stop getting this list send a message containing just

Re: MD: "Revolutionary"?

2000-07-27 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* Eric Woudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 27 Jul 2000 | It is my understanding that the numerical accuracy of the decode side | of ATRAC has improved over the years. The decoder in the MZ-R1 is identical to the decoder in the other MZ-R1. All that has been changed is the encoder, which is n

Re: MD: "Revolutionary"?

2000-07-27 Thread wb
Eric Woudenberg wrote: > Stainless Steel Rat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No. If you could take two Sony MZ-R1 units and put an ATRAC 4.5 ASIC in > > one of them, and record something on a Sharp MS-722, and play that disc > > back in both Sony units, both Sony units will sound identical.

RE: MD: Napster

2000-07-27 Thread Tony Antoniou
My suggestion to you all is that you get your hands on a copy of Napster as well as Napigator (http://www.napigator.com). This program allows you to access servers which are not operated by Napster, and are, therefore, out of the clutches of the RIAA lawsuit, for the moment. Adios, LarZ --

Re: MD: Napster

2000-07-27 Thread Leon
The music industry really should know better. IMHO MP3s are popular because a) music quality has been on a freefall for a while now (how many CDs will you confidently buy for the full price?) b) CDs are seriously overpriced (nowadays they don't even do enough marketing to make the price se

MD: Napster

2000-07-27 Thread PrinceGaz
Hi guys, Bad news for all of use who find downloading mp3 files with Napster easier than converting to mp3 from our own legitimate CDs-- seem that from midnight Friday they may be shutdown apparently because the music industry believes it is used to steal copyrighted material. I very much doubt

Re: MD: JE520 transport mech repairs?

2000-07-27 Thread J. Coon
Simon Mackay wrote: > > > I would suggest not to scrap the 520 but to look towards buying a 530 or > another secondhand 520 for your next MiniDisc deck. If a part common to > either of these machines has bitten the dust and you need to replace it, you > could use salvageable parts from the 520

RE: MD: JE520 transport mech repairs?

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Jones
--- Simon Mackay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would suggest not to scrap the 520 but to look towards buying a > 530 or > another secondhand 520 for your next MiniDisc deck. If a part > common to > either of these machines has bitten the dust and you need to > replace it, you > could use sal

RE: MD: JE520 transport mech repairs?

2000-07-27 Thread Simon Mackay
BEGIN QUOTE= My JE520 has finally bitten the dust, I'm afraid. In the last two days, it started to have problems reading inserted discs, then problems skipping tracks and finally, last night, when I tried to skip several tracks backwards, went