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Possibly a really dumb Question:
I've made a lot of cds from mp3 files, and I pretty much understand that. But if I have a store-bought cd, how do I save tracks from it as mp3s to use on compilations? I usually use winamp to play music, and there's no "save as" option that I can see.
ps. tj - the lists look great. I'm proud to be a Zero ;)

tizzie - you have to "rip" mp3s from your cds using special software. One that I use, which is easy & free, is CDex, but there are others as well - suggestions, anyone?

I'd like to request another group.
;)

And tj said we are all just prisoners here of our own device... ;)

Tizzie, you need a program that both rips (reads the music files on existing cds and converts them into mp3 files on your hard drive) and burns (reads the mp3 files on your hard drive and writes them as regular music files on new cds). MusicMatch Jukebox does both just dandy, and it's free. You don't need to bother upgrading to the pay-for version, although they will keep pestering you to do so.

Um, gang, I'm sorry...but I'll have to bail on the CD swap this time. A tragic dog meets CD burner incident has occurred...and a new CD burner isn't in the budget right now. (Baby clothes...you'd not believe how expensive those things are.)
I'm really bummed out about it, but with the due date sneaking up on me and the running around like a mad monkey trying to get the nursery ready and the house prepared for the invasion of the Mothers, I just don't see having time to budget a new burner, take my system apart and install a it. Especially since I made the fatal error of buying a Dell...and installing anything in them is a Faustian nightmare.
Drats, I was really looking forward to it too...I've even been working on a cover design for a while. Hmmm...maybe I'll just finish that, then post it and you guys can use it. :)

sad day, dejah.
tj - great work, but I'm gonna have to request some switcherooniness... ColdChef and I were in the same group last time, and I traded with p-lo in the MefiSwap, so it'd be swell if there was something you could do...
not that their music wasn't fabulous, but i like to get around, if you know what i mean...

Marquis is trying to ingratiate himself into the Classic Rock Anthems group...

I think I'm getting performance anxiety. How can I possibly make a decent mix for both a "dong" and an "ichthyophile?"

you think you've got problems?
well. you do.
my musical tastes are so fucking esoteric, that it's going to be practically impossible to please me, much less make me laugh, particularly since i'm rather down at the moment, having just lost 36 dollars at the track (a penance, really, compared to my friend who squandered $120, and also got shit on by a bird -- which happened just before the 7th, and really made it all worth it, actually; fortunately i'm young enough yet that i can laugh long and hard at such things. and others: a kid jumped into a idling golf cart and drove it into the BBQ stand. that ruled too, although i suspect it was rather a poor omen for winning money.)
also: i'm still threatening people with "CUTEST CD EVAR", and guess what -- i just found this fantastic track from the mid-60s haze by Clover called "Ice Cream Man" that has english kids singing about strawberries and chocolate.
so yes, yes, my fine readymade friend, you've got troubles (but no gull guano, so hey, chalk one up in the plus column).

Great work, TJ, thanks for all your efforts. Gee, Dejah, sorry to hear your dog ate your CD burner--bad dog! bad!

Oh how I wish I could send you people some music. and if I could oh how I wish you could see your faces when you heard it.

Heh, no...she didn't eat it...I was burning a Blue Man CD for my car and when I took the disk out, I left the tray out...and for some reason, my computer doesn't suck it back into it's spot if it's left out...anyway, Osa, (who is a very large chow/lab mix) came bounding into my office to show me her latest icky bone from the backyard and when she ran into the tray, it cracked it and pushed it off to the side...I made the mistake of trying to push it back into it's spot...and now the tray won't come out again.
Sigh...the perils of being careless around big dogs. :)

I promise that there will be no gull guano on my mix. I cannot vouch that there will not be, in your estimation, some sort of 'shite' on it. But thems the breaks, I guess...*starts furiously looking at mix to see how "esoteric" it is*
Crap.

If I might offer the likely too earnest advice of the veteran of exactly one of these swaps to any newbies facing pre-trade jitters, I'd say mix only to amuse yourself. This is more about a peek into each other's persona than about individual songs or being hip.
Also, yours may be the only mix that you like.
Now, neverminding all of that magnanimous turdhurl above, I pity you suckers in Jonmc's group.
What are going to do, kids, introduce him to something new?
bwuhahahahaha!
You're fucked.
Happy trails, buckaroos.

Oh but has jonmc ever heard Bob Lind's Elusive Butterfly?

Mr. McNally, I want you to listen to each of the following questions and give them your full attention before you answer. Please remember that you are under oath.
Now, you participated in a "cd swap" with your little friends on 9622.net a few months ago, did you not?
(witness replies in the affirmative)
And one of those cds you received came from a person known to you as "yhbc", did it not?
(witness replies in the affirmative)
Did you listen to that cd in your car?
(witness replies in the affirmative)
Did the music eventually progress to a little ditty by a group performing under the name of "Throat Culture", and entitled "Easter Island Head"?
(witness replies in the affirmative)
And when that song came on in your car, was that the very first time that you, personally, had heard that particular song? And further, upon hearing said song, did you not spontaneously begin to laugh, in public, mind you, in appreciation of said song? I remind you, Mr. McNally, that you are not only under oath, but are also subject to being impeached by prior evidence preserved on the so-called "weblogs" you and your little friends propagate on this so-called "internet"?
...
I rest my case, your honor.

Oh, I like that Easter Island Head song, too.
I heard it on that Garrison Keillor show a while back. Funny stuff.

The song was funny, rather, not A Prairie Home Companion.
I wasn't that drunk.

Don't be silly, Miguel.
But have you heard Tony Bennet's amazing take on the Beatles? or Mae West's? Or the acid-fried big band crooning of Arcesia?
Well, you have now. :)

Yup, tis true...my man da commish did introduce me to that number sly bastard that he is and yes I did listen to it during a traffic jam.
*doffs hat*

* bows *

Well.
I stand corrected.
*resumes sculpting poo into Devil's Tower-like shape*

Then of course Mister Cosby got into the whole 60's thing with the rocking and the rolling and then mass insanity ensued...
doggonne it to heck

Who's Roobarb?
And, more importantly, can we make pie out of him/her?

Bastard server! I had this witty post all lined up, but now the funniest repartee ever will never be heard.
Just as well, since you would all die laughing.

Hope y'all like Italian cheese with a sprinkling of Arabic pop and mebbee a dash of Argentinian (have to finish listening to the cd first). I think the only song(s) on there in English will be a cover a friend of mine here did for a demo.
Singing along to languages one doesn't know is a hobby of mine...

roobarb is my lover ... you could try, but I'd put my money on her.

Let me know what I should do, TJ. If there's an alternate e-mail that I can send my address to or whatever. Thanks again for the work.

Now, neverminding all of that magnanimous turdhurl above, I pity you suckers in Jonmc's group.
**prespires profusely**

I'm prespiring myself, at the prospect of getting another tawdry ColdChefian cd full of of cajun-flavored goodness. Ca c'est bon, cher!

Prespiring is the way criminals sweat it out in Minority Reportland.

prespiring --> aspiring --> expiring

Ufez, I think I got your address, it's just not label'd as you. I'll check it tonight. damn, I am soo sorry about this getting screwed up guys.
new list will be posted tonight as well, since Dejah dropped out.

magnanimous turdhurl duly noted, dong!
(i don't know whether to be frightened or excited)

if it's from ssecrest48AThotmaledotcom, then yes, tj, it's from me. Sorry about not putting my moniker on there if I forgot.

I emailed the day you opened up the new swap. Whats the scoop? Can I still get in?

Let the latecomer snubbing BEGIN!

I ain't no latecomer. I exist in some mangled digital form on that hard drive somewhere.... Don't I?

Considered yourself snubbed regardless!

Besides, this calliope orchestral CD I'm burning is aching to make it's way into some monkey lovers hands.

Calliope orchestral?
*swoons*
If you added some cats meowing holiday carols, I'd have to force you into conubial sanctions.

I ain't got no meowing cats records, roma-k, but I do(no shit) have several records which feature barking dogs. We should keep 'em seperated otherwise they'd chase eachother.

OT-
Speaking of all things weird in music, about two years ago I was in Budapest and our hosts took us out to a local discopub where they asssured us we would have a rollicking good time. I shit you not, all of the MTV top 40 had been 'dubbed' into Hungarian and the patrons were literally bouncing off of walls and each other in a surreal type of pop moshing. I am still kicking myself for not hunting down the dubbed copy of 'Oops I Did It Again,' if only for the pure schlock value.

FWIW, I use MusicMatch to burn CDs and it seems to work great. The volume leveling is probably the best feature so that tracks sound consistently at the same volume regardless of quality. Just a plug for a nice piece of software. I popped for the $19.95 full version but I believe the demo version does the same as mentioned earlier in the thread.

Question: Is there any way to rip an album?
I'm old (hikes up pants) and most of my favorite stuff is on vinyl. Is there was a to route a stereo signal to a laptop from a turntable through a receiver?

Fes, do you have a "line in" on your soundcard? a little jack hole that allows external sound, such as a microphone in (although mic in jacks are usually mono)?
If you do, you can simply record the track as you would using a tape recorder with the aforementioned musicmatch, by simply plugging your turntable/receiver into your laptop with a stereo cable.
Also, rommakimmy, the description of your mix sounds sweet.
I'm not too familiar with Italian cheese, but do enjoy a little indian pop.
My own disc will feature a bit of french rap and some Angélique Kidjo who sings pop songs in some West African tongue, which is not nearly as off-putting as it sounds.

Group 0 rulz! Hope y'all like The Judds!

three words: frampton comes alive

(i don't know whether to be frightened or excited)
It's kind of like that first teen grope, horrifying and titilating at the same time. "Ooh, um, wow, does it always tingle there? Yuck. Well, okay."

ebk-do you feel like we do? cause I want you to show me the way...

Kevin, email me at cdswap@9622.net again, you're name is on the list now, I just have no address for you.

do you have a "line in" on your soundcard? a little jack hole that allows external sound, such as a microphone in (although mic in jacks are usually mono)?
I do, but I'm worried about the mono aspect. I have dual plugs coming out, and I wondered whether there was a specialty cable that maybe went into a USB or serial port, that could maintain the stereo signal...?

Am I good though, TJ?

None shall post!

ufez, you're good.

and I just realized I put dong_resin with fishfucker....
two great tastes that taste great together?

Fes, is it a mic jack or a line in jack?
if it's line, it's most likely stereo.
I don't know about usb or serial cables for audio.
Group one is now to be known as the "splooge group".

Right on, thanks again, tj.
And is group 4 simply going to be known as "Jonmc and four others that aren't jonmc?"

I like "splooge." I really feel as though I'm part of something special now.
[When you put dong_resin and fishfucker's together, you get an amberglow. I don't know if it's a readymade, but I heard a concussive crash that came from roma indicating it was good none-the-less.]

There is a question mark after my name on the group list. I have been wondering about this. Should I be nervous?

a sprinkling of Arabic pop
Dude, Daler. Dude.

With eye fuzzing from screen fatigue and too much Chinese grappa at dinner, I read the new monkier for group 1 as "spooge". So are we Sploogers, Sploogians, or Sploogites?
I'm off to (freeze my ass off in) Brugges 'till the 17th, but upon my return will be frentically burning and ripping to ensure I make the deadline. *throws slightly tipsy baci in general direction of all monkey brethren and sneaks a couple o' bum pinches in on the Sploogers*

I like it that it's a "monkier" rather than a "moniker." That's appropriate somehow.

i dont seem to be on the list, tj. did you get my email¿

roma, bring us back some sploodgy eurodisco! (or some terrible french rap!)

Non Ho L'Eta'...

Sadly, I must withdraw my participation as I thought my burner would be fixed within a week.
Seems this isn't going to happen.
And it sucks.

Hope y'all like The Judds!
I shall doubtless learn to like The Judds. Whoever they are ...
By the way, why is it impossible to copy and paste comments on this site?

twos-- you're cool that's a remenant from doing the list, wasn't sure which group to put you in.
I'm pushing everything back another week until we get who's in and more importantly, who's dropping out all set. I don't want to see anyone get hosed (unless, ya know they WANT to).

By the way, why is it impossible to copy and paste comments on this site?
Thank god someone asked! I was too chicken myself, always fearing the cruel rapier wit of monkeys all pointing and laughing and jibing...
So why can't we copy and paste (unless we're in preview)?

I don't understand the problem. You can't copy and paste text from comments?
I can.

I don't understand the problem. You can't copy and paste text from comments?
I just did.

yeah, where are you copying and pasting from? the comments in this thread?
what browsers are y'all using?

IE 5.1.3 (mac).
Indeed, I can't copy/paste from the thread directly, but have to preview first. Kooky.
Get thee posted, ye scoudrel server!

click three times. Not only will that enable you to cut and paste, but it will get you back to Kansas.

I think we've discussed this before, haven't we? You can click-click-click to highlight the text, but you can't right-click to get a menu without making the highlighting go away. Oh, and the triple-click method highlights the whole paragraph. Double-clicking only highlights a single word.
The workaround I've been using is to triple-click, then go to the toolbar on IE and select Edit/Copy, then paste the whole paragraph into the comments box and delete the parts I don't need.
That's with IE6.0.2800.1106 on Win98SE, btw.

Crash, I'm using the same setup as you and that triple-click thing works, thanks. Quick tip: ctrl-c to copy and ctrl-c to paste. Avoids the whole menu trip ...

Weird. I have no trouble with the clicking, the copying, or anything.
I am worshipped as a God in some cultures.
Or I would be, if the Server and Jesus didn't hate me.

Ctrl-V to paste.

At least you don't get accused of being evil ...

dammit ... ctrl-f for spelling fuckups ...

dude, if you're gonna eat all them ersters, you're gonna have to deal with the name-calling.

a large aquatic mammal's gotta eat ...

Alrighty--all you pc-ers have yer wacky right/left clicks, but as a mac user, I do the click-and-drag....I don't even have a mouse since I'm on a laptop, so I'm screwed.
The funny thing is, now I can't copy/paste at MeFi either, except (and this is really weird) in the sidebar. But I can copy/paste on MeTa. I asked my husband to confirm these anomolies, which he did on his own computer. It's not a terrible thing--slightly annoying perhaps, but not impossible to live with. *must remember that I am a part of the fringe population with the mac, and therefore must pay penance for going against the grain*

Re-set the trackpad to behave like a mouse with the clickin' and the draggin' so I can highlight a word or a line, but no paragraph.
Blah Blah Blah. I'll put a sock in it now.

Alrighty--all you pc-ers have yer wacky right/left clicks, but as a mac user, I do the click-and-drag....I don't even have a mouse since I'm on a laptop, so I'm screwed.

i'm one of those hermaphrodites with both, and lemme tell you -- do yourself a favor and buy a two-button mouse for your mac. you'll save yourself endless frustration.
i like using a microsoft optical. it's deliciously, uh, URR-ONICAL.
also: I've noticed that i also can't highlight using a mac on this site. i personally blame steve jobs.

adampsyche's on vacation. let's blame him.

fishfucker: I can't highlight using a PC either. I've looked at the source and I can't figure out why. Whenever I try to highlight something, it selects what I'm trying to select and everything above it. Weird.

Me too.

are you using IE6, ebk (and britt)? or mozilla?
now that you mention that, it sounds familiar. i use IE6 and moz at home. i may have run into that. i'll check tonight.
regardless, i'm sure this is a problem with how some browsers handle CSS.

Hah! All you click/drag/highlight problem-having folks should join the cult of Opera, as I have.
Except then the front page would be messed up. (I keep meaning to mention this...)

Yeah, but all those breastplates and viking helmets can be unwieldy.

"I can sing hiiii-yah!"

IE 6.

Hmm I'm IE 5.5SP1...no issues.

icab's cool for mac too....but readymade and fish, try closing that window (copy the specific address tho) and reloading meta in a new window...it fixes that for me...

eiyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!6

Here's the little fucker in question, if I don't mistake my mark:
Original thread:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
Preview thread:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
... or maybe not. But it's a thought.

um. are we still waiting for cd swap addresses? i have the cd playlist done, the prototype burned and am working on the hologram for the cover.
where do i send them?

Here, ebk. Chill.

Wow, 9622'd. Try this one instead.

sorry ebk, but we're in a holding pattern for a week while I get this shit straightened out. what with the latecomers and the droppers and all. Or maybe I'll say fuck it and just send out the lists when I get home.
grrrr, grrr I say!

Here's the little fucker in question, if I don't mistake my mark:
Much as I enjoyed the theory, a short test has proved that this wasn't the problem. Never mind: I'll keep digging ...

Maybe it's the Mulder in me, but I almost wonder if this isn't a bug but a feature. It's clearly limited to latest-gen Microsoft browsers. Maybe it's part of the Man's plan to keep us from filching words that other people own.

Yeah, until they get MS-textDRM in place, then they can charge us for owning them too. And seeing them on the screen!

Ok I'm sure this is really interesting by now, but I have divined that it's something to do with the hack for the content div. There's no such hack on the preview page, which is single column.
There are two alternatives to that hack which you might try, but someone better email me about it cuz this is just too damn technical for a CD swap thread.

do tell, my tusky brother.

I'm going to play with the html files a bit, and email you later or tomorrow. If I can get it to work, it will save me the effort of explaining two or three ideas, when it might all end up quite simple. Course, I might not be able to fix it either ;-)

I almost wonder if this isn't a bug but a feature.
But it would only be a "feature" for this site. I can filch whatever content I want from the New York Times.....Not saying that the content here isn't far worthier of filching.

9622.net:content far worthier of filching.

New list emailed out. no whining. it's final.
I'm gonna watch my Mucha Lucha tape from Saturday now.

I am perhaps a bit too pleased to be one of the Red Assed Baboons.
Mostly because it says "assed".

Me, too. I think any organization with "assed" in its name is splendid. Plus I get to send stuff to/receive stuff from Europe, which is probably as close as I will ever get to going there myself, so I will now have the chance to live vicariously through FedEx.

jp your spamtraps are rejecting my mail. Of course, this may be intentional ...
The solution I sent you won't work in Opera, apart from the other slight things wrong with it, so I'll keep looking. Starting to wonder if there even *is* a good solution ...

Ah, I keep forgetting about the spamtraps. My boss unilaterally decided to block all hotmail from entering this company. it was a very unpopular decision, but he is a very stubborn man.
regardless, though, i still got your email. my 9622.net address forwards to both my home and work accounts.
anyway, i haven't had a second to look at what you sent me, but i plan to mess around with it this afternoon. your help is very much appreciated.

As a lemur, let me just say, please consider me as a possible corporate symbol or mascot suitable and fine for any professional or semi-professional sport team.
Thanks, TJ.

another red-assed baboon reporting in....my cds will be ready in a week or two....will be sending them out from work (i'm a cheap bastard) so look for an "amberglow" somewhere on the package... : >

I'd just like to mention that to this day, no CD from jonmc. Just a little Christmas ill will for you.

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