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DVD Backup

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Movies

Well the world is moving on to Blu-ray and I’ll have to get one of these bad boys at some point (and replace my whole television too, the lovely 250kg monster that it is). In the meantime, backing up DVDs and so forth goes on. Here’s the workflow I use. Its a little old these [...]

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Rich’s Top 10 Songs This Week

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek, Music

So what am I listening to these days…sometimes it is just a few songs over and over. So check them out…Thanks to Nutsie, you can easily hook into the music videos of the songs you like. And with YouTube, folks are making “music videos” out of almost everything…So here is Rich’s top 10 and most [...]

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New Music

March 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Music

Hey I’m not on the board anymore, but Bob has done an incredible job with Nutsie. It works on the Mac, upload your iTunes playlist (not the songs), it then plays them for you in a random shuffle and recommends new songs for you based on it.

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mp3 tagger

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Music

OK, I use Tritag for making my mp3s have nice tags, but it doesn’t have either lyric finding or artwork finding. Mactags.blogspot.com if you can believe it actually has a review of all Mac based MP3 taggers (talk about narrowcasting).
Here are some good recommendations:
MP3-Info. This lets you right click and look at tags, which [...]

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Mac Flac Converter

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Music

Flac is an format that is lossless, so you get the original quality of the recording. I almost never see it, but if you do, use xACT to convert it to AIFF, the Apple lossless format or to MP3 with Lame, the best encoder.

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