Comments on: what the hell was in the water ten years ago? http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/ Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:55:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Curious Yellow http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-20877 Curious Yellow Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:59:14 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/#comment-20877 I've been using LAME for about 3 years now and I can definitely say it is all about the variable bit rate baby. Don't do much encoding on it these days because Fopp's gone out of business and I can't be bothered to buy any CDs off Amazon. What is that mp3? I'm on a public terminal at the mo so no sound. And yes, I think the Spice Girls album was the 1st one I encoded but a 5ive album was the first one I came into possession of on CD (horrifying to admit but we have to face our demons someday). I didn't know about the embedded album art thing. Most of the LAME stuff that my mate gets off this uber stricr DC hub has the album art in a jpeg in the folder anyway so I thought Amarok was just picking it up from there. I'm going to have a look at 5.5 when I get home. I too didn't like the overly futuristic newer version. But changeable colours? That's just crazy. I’ve been using LAME for about 3 years now and I can definitely say it is all about the variable bit rate baby. Don’t do much encoding on it these days because Fopp’s gone out of business and I can’t be bothered to buy any CDs off Amazon.

What is that mp3? I’m on a public terminal at the mo so no sound. And yes, I think the Spice Girls album was the 1st one I encoded but a 5ive album was the first one I came into possession of on CD (horrifying to admit but we have to face our demons someday).

I didn’t know about the embedded album art thing. Most of the LAME stuff that my mate gets off this uber stricr DC hub has the album art in a jpeg in the folder anyway so I thought Amarok was just picking it up from there. I’m going to have a look at 5.5 when I get home.

I too didn’t like the overly futuristic newer version.

But changeable colours? That’s just crazy.

]]> By: drac http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-20865 drac Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:35:20 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/#comment-20865 Tiny Little Fascist: Props. Yeah, that's what it says. CY: I discovered <a href="http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php" rel="nofollow">LAME</a> around '99ish and abandoned the filthy Xing. Since we're sharing those filthy secrets, the first mp3 I remember listening to is <a href="http://www.google.com/musics?lid=YD2zG8M7_4G&aid=8BFBaKg99rH&sid=R5i-e6ZU7mD&sa=X&oi=music&ct=result" rel="nofollow">this one</a>. Not as earth shattering as your secret lust for Ginger and Scary Spice, but close. Dude. The 5.5 default skin is very nice! I hated the modern/3.0 variety skins and stuck with an ancient OSX lookalike skin for YEARS. Bento (the new default 5.5 skin) is much cooler though. It has *gasp* changeable colours. Oh, the advances in technology. Since I've been using Winamp and nothing but, it took until the 5.5 release to make me realize that people have been embedding album art and lyrics inside mp3s for years. And I never realized. *sigh* (Most of the mp3s I possess seem to include album art. WTF?) Tiny Little Fascist: Props. Yeah, that’s what it says.

CY: I discovered LAME around ‘99ish and abandoned the filthy Xing. Since we’re sharing those filthy secrets, the first mp3 I remember listening to is this one. Not as earth shattering as your secret lust for Ginger and Scary Spice, but close.

Dude. The 5.5 default skin is very nice! I hated the modern/3.0 variety skins and stuck with an ancient OSX lookalike skin for YEARS. Bento (the new default 5.5 skin) is much cooler though. It has *gasp* changeable colours. Oh, the advances in technology.

Since I’ve been using Winamp and nothing but, it took until the 5.5 release to make me realize that people have been embedding album art and lyrics inside mp3s for years. And I never realized. *sigh* (Most of the mp3s I possess seem to include album art. WTF?)

]]> By: tinylittlefascist http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-20864 tinylittlefascist Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:10:54 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/#comment-20864 You mean... drumroll... Win Amp... It really whips the llama's ass (llamas bray in the background)? It is still the default on my edition. :) You mean… drumroll… Win Amp… It really whips the llama’s ass (llamas bray in the background)?
It is still the default on my edition.
:)

]]> By: Curious Yellow http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-20825 Curious Yellow Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:02:17 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/#comment-20825 I remember desperately trying to warez the encoder because I didn't want to fork out the $20 for it. I had a Spice Girls CD that was gagging to be encoded. Those filthy whores. Amarok on Kubuntu was pretty cool but it doesn't behave as expected with last.fm so I ditched it. I use foobar for the few flac albums I have but I keep returning to Winamp just like you! Are you on any skins these days? Still, those were the heady years of compression I guess. I'd just been introduced to mp3s, high quality jpegs and even animated gifs. The world was my oyster. I look back on it now and wonder what went wrong :( I remember desperately trying to warez the encoder because I didn’t want to fork out the $20 for it. I had a Spice Girls CD that was gagging to be encoded. Those filthy whores.

Amarok on Kubuntu was pretty cool but it doesn’t behave as expected with last.fm so I ditched it. I use foobar for the few flac albums I have but I keep returning to Winamp just like you! Are you on any skins these days?

Still, those were the heady years of compression I guess. I’d just been introduced to mp3s, high quality jpegs and even animated gifs. The world was my oyster. I look back on it now and wonder what went wrong :(

]]> By: drac http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-20769 drac Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:15:55 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/#comment-20769 Heh. Yes. It used to ship with <em>"It really whips the llama's ass"</em> on a loopback. I think they had that until 5.0 at least, perhaps even more recently. I've tried unsuccessfully to move to other players (foobar, mediamonkey, 1by1) but I always seem to find myself missing some feature or the other. The windowshade mode and some plugins are things of beauty and irreplaceable. Woo. Xing! I haven't used that in ... umm ... 10 years. Heh. Yes. It used to ship with “It really whips the llama’s ass” on a loopback. I think they had that until 5.0 at least, perhaps even more recently.

I’ve tried unsuccessfully to move to other players (foobar, mediamonkey, 1by1) but I always seem to find myself missing some feature or the other. The windowshade mode and some plugins are things of beauty and irreplaceable.

Woo. Xing! I haven’t used that in … umm … 10 years.

]]> By: Curious Yellow http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-20760 Curious Yellow Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:05:31 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/#comment-20760 I remember thinking is he saying "it really whips the llama's ass", or am I having some mild auditory hallucination? 10 years down the line it's still my preferred player. Remember the Xing mp3 encoder? I remember thinking is he saying “it really whips the llama’s ass”, or am I having some mild auditory hallucination? 10 years down the line it’s still my preferred player. Remember the Xing mp3 encoder?

]]> By: pissu perera http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-20725 pissu perera Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:25:59 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/#comment-20725 you forgot mother theresa. she went up in 1997 too :) you forgot mother theresa. she went up in 1997 too :)

]]> By: Psy http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-20699 Psy Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:37:50 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/#comment-20699 You've been missing from the Interblogs so long that you very well could've retreated into the jungle, and been living amongst the turtles for the past month-ish. Did those egotistic turtles make you blog about LOGO? Did they? Huh? You’ve been missing from the Interblogs so long that you very well could’ve retreated into the jungle, and been living amongst the turtles for the past month-ish.

Did those egotistic turtles make you blog about LOGO? Did they? Huh?

]]> By: Tez http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-20698 Tez Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:15:52 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/#comment-20698 Jesus! It's like a reunion. Jesus! It’s like a reunion.

]]> By: Anuradha http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-20697 Anuradha Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:07:24 +0000 http://lair.fierydragon.org/2007/10/what-the-hell-was-in-the-water-ten-years-ago/#comment-20697 Oh so I was babbling on about LOGO? I'm shocked Psy, and deeply hurt. I will now retreat into the jungle and live amongst the turtles. Oh so I was babbling on about LOGO? I’m shocked Psy, and deeply hurt. I will now retreat into the jungle and live amongst the turtles.

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