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Man I don’t download shit anymore and I recall waiting hours for one song on Naps… errrr, iTunes….?
Just Bluetooth or if you must hardwire for lossless audio I still stream only. Gone are my days of the download. |
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I download FLAC files if I like the particular track enough and willing to actually pay for it. Yes, I pay for my music downloads whereas I know some that don't. Lol. I enjoy streaming like the next guy but when I'm in my car especially, I don't want to rely on streaming. It's funny because I never used Napster back in the day and didn't really understand what all the fuss was about. Much like another member here I really liked having a physical CD in hand. One day I kind of felt forced into getting an iPod because a previous car (Infiniti) came with (at that time) a proprietary cable in conjunction with the audio system. I was pissed because it wouldn't work with my MP3 player at the time so I gave in and bought an iPod Classic. I hated using iTunes but didn't have much choice. I don't use anything Apple except for my Mac Book Pro on occasion. Those days are long gone now. I don't even think FLAC works with Apple products but not sure? The equivalent would be a WAV file if I'm not mistaken but I think they're even a bit larger in size which is a pain. I think one of these days M5Rick will cave and go to the dark side once he realizes the convenience albeit many years later. |
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09-03-2021, 10:00 AM | #3481 | ||
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I do pay for my streaming services and artists have a say whether their music is on there. Different talk show I know, but gone are my days or Napster and limewire etc. I'm a man of certain calculated excess. Basically, I don't like the limitations that polarity two choice options give. I have three music service subscriptions, four gym memberships and have at one time, wait for it, had an android and iPhone That said, I like my spotify most and it allows offline mode so there is no relying on network, which also doesn't seem to let me down. I still have a 100 case cd "wallet" I recall lugging over the back seat ten times a day but it collects dust in a closet now. |
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I have become a fan of Amazon's music service. I guess it's called Amazon Music HD nowadays. It is very reasonably priced now that they have lowered the price and has a gigantic library of music in HD or Ultra HD (24 bit?) formats. As for CD wallets, I still own a ton of them and they too have collected a bit of dust. I still have CDs that I bought decades ago. It's funny because the only way I have to play them anymore is with my BluRay player. Cars don't even come with a CD player anymore, at least my Bimmer doesn't, hence the whole thumb drive lossless audio files blah blah discussion. Lol. IIRC correctly you own a handful of BMWs. No Audi? That would certainly vibe with your habit of having a bit of everything. Putting flame suit on..... |
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At this point I only have 4 bmw's, couple Fords and off-road vehicles, no Audis. I gave them a try a couple time and quite like them. Maybe some day I'll have another. |
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09-03-2021, 10:26 AM | #3484 |
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I think one of these days M5Rick will cave and go to the dark side once he realizes the convenience albeit many years later. [/QUOTE]
* I'll treasure my collection and it gets changed regularly from my CD library when I want something fresh. The wallet is handy standing up by the trans tunnel without having it on a back seat. |
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Said USB thumb has been sitting on the table inside our front door since 2019, waiting for me to carry it out to the Bavarian Golf Cart and copy it into the iDrive. I've been a paying Pandora streaming user for years. It took at least two years to seed and train the AI for what music I like, and it always surprises me with a random pick that I haven't heard since Nixon was in the White House. I also have a dozen songs downloaded on my phone from the free Amazon Music service included with Prime, but only use it to play "Alice's Restaurant" exactly one time whenever we take a road trip. No music at home or in the office, since it ruins my focus. I developed an odd habit from driving on long road trips to/from competition events, where I drive in complete silence in an attempt to become one with the vehicle. When I'm commuting, I frequently listen to Pandora. I also used to sometimes have my two-way radio tuned to our work frequency on my drive in, so that I had an idea of what the crisis-du-jour was before I walked in the door.....
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I remember when the SST stopped flying (2003 I think) cross-Atlantic service. And I remember when it started. Was just thinking about those the other day, pretty cool planes.
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Here’s another blast from the past!
I remember listening to the Dr. Demento Show on the radio in the early 1970s. His sidekicks were Mary Mary and Weird Al. Dr. Demento (Barret Hansen I think) later visited my high school on career day to talk about radio and music. He really talked a lot about music history, which was his major at Reed College. I met him later at a Reed Alumni function - the radio show was long gone but he still had thousands of records as was collecting more. Weird Al went on to become, well, Weird Al. Was just a kid on a radio show goofing off and made a life out of it. |
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I took a course on Quality Systems for my master's degree. It was about using QC methods to prevent catastrophic failures. We had to pick such a failure and investigate it, then write a paper on how using the QC tools might have prevented the problem. My group chose the Air France flight 4590 crash. Those poor souls on that plane were doomed almost as soon as it started down the runway, but the series of events that led to that nightmare was preventable.
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The big issue was that the exact same incident had happened years before with an SST taking off out of Dulles, except that time the fuel did not ignite and the aircraft was able to return to Dulles and land safely. But they knew that a blown tire could rupture the fuel tank and did nothing to correct it.
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There were a few other factors, like a slightly overloaded plane and after they blew the tire, they veered left and dropped the left landing gear slightly off the runway and nailed a landing light. But those probably didn't contribute greatly to the crash. The fire was the main culprit. The thing is, the fire was not visible to the passengers. They were just sitting through the takeoff when suddenly the plane slowed to stall speed and fell straight down onto the hotel. I bet none of them had any idea that anything was wrong until seconds before the crash.
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Also, wish more people knew it's really the fumes of the fuel that are so dangerous. It's why an errant spark + fumes = kaboom |
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