Van Halen rocks
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Hot for Teacher was a pretty good song...but definitely the video made it even better ;) Panama was pretty much the same as Jump.
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I've just done something I should have done ages ago. Installed Winamp ( as WMP both sucks and blows up for me ), and let it index my MP3s. I need to go through and add about 500 CDs, but I have 17162 CDs ( I know it's not a real lot in this age of piracy, but I like knowing. I own 933 odd CDs, so guess 12 tracks per CD, that's 11196 legimate tracks, the remainder is a mix of stuff from when I used to download, stuff I've bought, and stuff you can't buy ). Anyhow, that wasn't the point of this. The point is, I just started to play 1984, and it's awesome. I am seeing a show on the 25th of 5 tribute bands, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, KISS, ACDC and Black Sabbath. Should be fun. I've maintained for a while that it's easier to just play CD's while I work, but I'm starting to think that the mp3 thing is much more convenient and leads to me listening to a wider variety of my collection. What do you guys do ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
you should really get a SquezzeBox[^]. So easy to use and sounds really great too.
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I've just done something I should have done ages ago. Installed Winamp ( as WMP both sucks and blows up for me ), and let it index my MP3s. I need to go through and add about 500 CDs, but I have 17162 CDs ( I know it's not a real lot in this age of piracy, but I like knowing. I own 933 odd CDs, so guess 12 tracks per CD, that's 11196 legimate tracks, the remainder is a mix of stuff from when I used to download, stuff I've bought, and stuff you can't buy ). Anyhow, that wasn't the point of this. The point is, I just started to play 1984, and it's awesome. I am seeing a show on the 25th of 5 tribute bands, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, KISS, ACDC and Black Sabbath. Should be fun. I've maintained for a while that it's easier to just play CD's while I work, but I'm starting to think that the mp3 thing is much more convenient and leads to me listening to a wider variety of my collection. What do you guys do ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Christian Graus wrote:
I've maintained for a while that it's easier to just play CD's while I work, but I'm starting to think that the mp3 thing is much more convenient and leads to me listening to a wider variety of my collection. What do you guys do ?
I've been listening to MP3s rather than CDs for ages - I've got a 60GB iPod - it's got about 75% of my CD collection (@ 192kb/s) on it - I can listen to almost anything whenever I want to...work, car, whatever... In fact, the only place I listen to CDs is in my living room at home, because a) I've got a pretty good quality CD player & amp there (Arcam Alpha 7, Rotel something or other) and (at last) good access to my CDs
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Interesting. I get heat from some people for listening to music while I work, but the fact is, most of the time, albums that have been part of my life for 20 years, just wash over me. I enjoy that it's on, but I often notice that the last song is playing, or the album finished ages ago, because I'm focusing on work. If I need to do design type stuff, then there's no music, but while I'm coding, it creates an atmosphere that I enjoy, without distracting me. And, I can play a lot of the songs I listen to, I know what you mean. Strap teh guitar on me, and it's a different experience altogether. Of course, I can't really play anymore, not with the back and arm issues I have.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Christian Graus wrote:
I can't really play anymore, not with the back and arm issues I have.
At your age it's a wonder you can sit at the keyboard for any length of time without messing yourself let alone function.
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Christian Graus wrote:
I can't really play anymore, not with the back and arm issues I have.
At your age it's a wonder you can sit at the keyboard for any length of time without messing yourself let alone function.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
I have the colostomy bag set up for just that reason....
Christian Graus - C++ MVP 'Why don't we jump on a fad that hasn't already been widely discredited ?' - Dilbert
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Interesting. I get heat from some people for listening to music while I work, but the fact is, most of the time, albums that have been part of my life for 20 years, just wash over me. I enjoy that it's on, but I often notice that the last song is playing, or the album finished ages ago, because I'm focusing on work. If I need to do design type stuff, then there's no music, but while I'm coding, it creates an atmosphere that I enjoy, without distracting me. And, I can play a lot of the songs I listen to, I know what you mean. Strap teh guitar on me, and it's a different experience altogether. Of course, I can't really play anymore, not with the back and arm issues I have.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Christian Graus wrote:
Of course, I can't really play anymore, not with the back and arm issues I have.
Well that's a bummer. Wasn't aware of that, man. Perhaps there's another instrument you can pick up to keep the music going? Old dogs can learn as many tricks as they like. They just have to be properly motivated. :)
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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I've just done something I should have done ages ago. Installed Winamp ( as WMP both sucks and blows up for me ), and let it index my MP3s. I need to go through and add about 500 CDs, but I have 17162 CDs ( I know it's not a real lot in this age of piracy, but I like knowing. I own 933 odd CDs, so guess 12 tracks per CD, that's 11196 legimate tracks, the remainder is a mix of stuff from when I used to download, stuff I've bought, and stuff you can't buy ). Anyhow, that wasn't the point of this. The point is, I just started to play 1984, and it's awesome. I am seeing a show on the 25th of 5 tribute bands, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, KISS, ACDC and Black Sabbath. Should be fun. I've maintained for a while that it's easier to just play CD's while I work, but I'm starting to think that the mp3 thing is much more convenient and leads to me listening to a wider variety of my collection. What do you guys do ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Christian Graus wrote:
Van Halen rocks
To be true, I would be fairly surprised if he would belly-dance.
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Christian Graus wrote:
Of course, I can't really play anymore, not with the back and arm issues I have.
Well that's a bummer. Wasn't aware of that, man. Perhaps there's another instrument you can pick up to keep the music going? Old dogs can learn as many tricks as they like. They just have to be properly motivated. :)
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
Well, I keep hoping my workload will drop and I'll get better. In the meantime, I don't have time to play anyhow. I have played harmonica in the past, I may just take that up again.
Christian Graus - C++ MVP 'Why don't we jump on a fad that hasn't already been widely discredited ?' - Dilbert
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My fault for being sarcastic without an icon, it's Friday night :-) Long ago I've given up on managing lists of songs in any player, I use windows explorer to search and browse then drag and drop in my player every time... As far as the skins, the only thing that will make me go away from default/classic is if I find a cleaner-simpler-less intrusive one and... even on a Friday night, I know that won't happen :->
HollyHooo wrote:
My fault for being sarcastic without an icon,
No worries, I knew you where just making a point and I was off on a tangent about how much I loathe the current crop of music players. :)
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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you should really get a SquezzeBox[^]. So easy to use and sounds really great too.
Henrik Husted wrote:
So easy to use and sounds really great too.
Do you have one? I've drooled over getting a device similar for quite some time. The cost of the Squeze box is why I haven't bought one yet.
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
