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So the iTunes music store will soon be all DRM-free and 256kbps AAC. In return, the labels got 69c, 99c and $1.29 tiered pricing. Free (I think) upgrades of all lower-bit-rate prior purchases. My library has been all lossless for all of two days, but I think some of the purged stuff is shortly going to be restored from backup. EDIT: OK, it's not free so fuck it.

So sachsy!

Tears For Fears -- The Hurting Odd segue, but it's all good.

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Are there other amps besides the BH that can do the ESP950 justice? Purely out of curiosity. Happily dynamic, me. Not even slightly tempted by the stat side. Certainly not intrigued. No sir.

Ray LaMontagne -- Till The Sun Turns Black

Replaced a toilet. Always fun. At least I now have a pot to piss in again, as it were.

I bought protection. Matter of fact, I'm listening to them right now.

The rack is cool. Pity the components are so fugly.

Everyone's cooler than me.

From what I've read, the entire world is pretty much "just outside it." Bill Bryson -- who is by default right about everything -- mentions in passing that it took the human population of the planet about 20,000 years to recover from the volcanic winter following the last super-eruption* in 73,000 BC or so. * Fnarr fnarr.

Mojave 3 -- Out Of Tune

Also, purged every bit (tee hee) of lossy music from my iTunes library. I feel so ... virginal.

Four tickets to South Africa. Oh, that hurt. Although probably not as much as the actual 18-1/2 hour flight will with a three- and four-year-old.

Posted in the wrong thread! D'oh.

Boards Of Canada -- The Campfire Headphase

Thor can handle things on his own.

Prodigy -- Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

Welcome. And it certainly was to me. Thanks.

Nice! You have a very thick, manly ... cord.

I did have a look there and there is one for ripping to MP3 and autoloading onto an iPod, but it doesn't quite repurpose if you want to move the files to CD instead.

Thanks Dusty! And there I was contemplating having to fart around with Applescript.

Happy happy joy joy!

I'm stumped here and hoping someone else may have faced this issue before and solved it already. I'd like to burn some MP3 CDs for my wife's car so she can just put the changer on shuffle and have a decent amount of music on tap. (No, sadly it doesn't have an aux in.) Since I now keep my music in iTunes in lossless format, though, I haven't yet figured out a simple way to convert and burn a large playlist without subsequently ending up with loads of duplicate files needing to be purged from my library. Any thoughts?