dubdisciple
Shatke..I now must search ebay for a c64

There are some good C64 emulators for Windows available...you can play all of your most awesomest games from your youth and realize how utterly crap they were...

dubdisciple


 There are third party software that will transfer items to an apple device...but every now and then Apple releases and "update that totally hoses that software.   The bottom line is one should not have to convert an mp3.  And yes, apple products convert all mp3s even if it seems seamless. You will not find an mp3 on an ipod or ipad library

Er, whilst not wanting to hijack this thread, on my i pad i have nothing but non converted mp3 files.

You are wrong in your last statement.

Cheers,
Jerry

MakeShift
Is n't an MPEG file an MP3?  My iTunes shows that I have numerous MPEG files mixed in with the AAC files.  I'm not really up on this, maybe they have been modified in some way, but I thought the MPEG's were just MP3's?

mp3 is part of the the audio layer, a.k.a. Layer 3, of the original MPEG codec which started as MPEG(1) but didn't get accepted as *standard* until it was refered to as MPEGII.
 
Frauenhofer developed what we call mp3 for squeezing more communications into available bandwidth. It was nominated for use in MPEG but before MPEG became ubiquitous some people had realized that what we now call the mp3 codecs could be used to share music and the free market just exploded as people used stolen mp3 codecs to create a new paradigm. 
 
 
MPEGII is a standard that is now used everyday for world wide network television distribution. It may be replaced by MPEG4 as Hi-Def distribution becomes the norm or it may be replaced by something even newer if consumers end up demanding 4k before the HD networks are 100% built out.
 
It is correct to say that mp3 is a MPEG file but only some MPEG files use mp3 audio. 
 
best regards,
mike

dubdisciple
i miss the poke command

My last box supported Poke for awhile, but I guess it got deprecated at some point.  Her name was Lidia and we got divorced.  (apologies - I couldn't help it)
 
Bob Bone

dubdisciple

MakeShift
Is n't an MPEG file an MP3?  My iTunes shows that I have numerous MPEG files mixed in with the AAC files.  I'm not really up on this, maybe they have been modified in some way, but I thought the MPEG's were just MP3's?

sorting through all the various mpeg formats (both audio and video) is daunting and confusing at times.  mp3's get converted to mp4 files when placed in itunes. 

Not true. I use Lame to create my MP3's from FLAC files and import them into iTunes. They are not converted at all.
 
Regards,
Dan
 

MakeShift
Is n't an MPEG file an MP3?  My iTunes shows that I have numerous MPEG files mixed in with the AAC files.  I'm not really up on this, maybe they have been modified in some way, but I thought the MPEG's were just MP3's?

An MPEG generally refers to a video file with the MPG extension much like photographs with the JPG extension are called JPEGs. I've never heard of an MP3 or MP4 file referred to as an MPEG. 

 
Motion Picture Experts Group.
 
It's been around a long time.
 
I think it's just a little less time than the Joint Photographers Expert Group has been around, but I am open to correction should someone want to go look it up.
 
:-)

robert_e_bone

dubdisciple
i miss the poke command

My last box supported Poke for awhile, but I guess it got deprecated at some point.  Her name was Lidia and we got divorced.  (apologies - I couldn't help it)
 
Bob Bone

Is this part of being bad, err, bad to the bone?   
 
 
 
(+1 on the apologies.   This thread is all over the place anyway)

The choice between type of computer and software is something
that always seem to me to be changing so fast and with neither lasting
for long that the less I had to invest the better. PC's just seemed to be
the cost saving choice.
 
That has seem to hold true for me to date. I could learn and try to keep up with the changes
while keeping a handle on the expense.
 
My goal was to hopefully have the hardware and software reach a level of performance
that would complete the "tool" that I could create audio recordings as I would enjoy doing.
 
I was completely stoked when Cakewalk released X1. I really thought that all the "tools"
that I ever wanted - I would have.
A few bumps due to computer and software issues and I realized it still wasn't happening but
getting very close. Being at the end of my rope trying I also felt and feel that it better or I will
have to break from it....it's been a long troubled filled trip.
 
I know everything will keep changing but at least I may be able to spend a handful of years
enjoying the process of making music rather than building a DAW. That's something that just
hasn't happened in all the years I've been trying. I do believe that Cake is in the process of making
it happen. I hope the computer I chose to work with it- will.
 
The choices made for reaching the goal ?  They were based on my best guess and with the knowledge that had at any given time. Maybe there was a time when switching everything to something completely different would have been best...I don't think so. I still think that a PC and Cakewalk will be a winning combination for me but at the state digital hardware and software has reached I think there will be more very cool combinations for folks to choose from that will perform very well...finally...of course I've been wrong many times before about what I thought may happen.
 
 

trimph1
 
You know, I am getting sick and tired of all this PC vs Apple stuff.
 
They both have their weaknesses and their strengths.
 
Honestly, we have some really powerful platforms here that can do way more than some of the things we used even 7 years ago.
 
I just wish both sides would just grow up and stop b***tching at each other here...
 
Sheesh.

I agree but unfortunately this war of words has been going on for years.