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Well, not quite, if you limit it to "some" (and indeed it0s the "3,4,5" disc that's concerned... both parts of the 3 - why would a date by that line-up *not* be released if everything was fine? - and the 4..., but the rests is great, in my opinion!). Anyway, I look at it as a corpus of material, and as such, it's a great one, all considered!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Oh yes! except for the album "On the Corner", all of it will be new to me! The last major item in the Miles oeuvre that I don't know yet (with the other exception being Agartha/Pangaea). I started building up excitement today by listening to the studio material from "Circle in the Round" onwards (disc 4 of the 65-68 Quintet box). Made it up to the unedited session of "In a Silent Way", will play the original album later as a lullaby... but now I'm off to watch some DVDs with live shows off of dime...

Great! Thanks, Flurin. You're welcome! These small group sessions are terrific, in my opinion! If they'd ever been out in a little box, people here and elsewhere would hold them in much higher esteem (and Carter the instrumentalist, too, I assume - sure, there's still "Further Definitions" and the OJC and Pablo albums, but...)

will you stop repeating old news please? I thought it was yet a further delay first! let's hope there won't be any! Not 'old news' as far as I'm concerned. Just received an email from them to this effect to confirm it for sure. that sure is weird, as I got the message exactly a week ago! (Quoted in my post, repeated below): (edited to get quotes in the right order)

so did mine, thanks!

I had most of the info in my files but didn't see this thread... still, I added the additional info from Hans' research and attach it below - it's for all three of Carter's Verve small group discs (excluding the strings dates). It's not a professional smartass file, tunes aren't in session order or anything, but I always found it helpful when making another attempt at going through these great sessions more or less chronologically. benny_carter_verve.doc

Into disc 6 by now - those last few tracks are terrific! "Stuff" has been a favourite for a long time, and the sexy 6/8 groove track too ("Tout de Suite" - great to have two takes of it!). Same goes for the first sessions on the "In a Silent Way" box - great, great stuff! "Filles" and "Water Babies" must have been fantastic albums when they came out! (I had the old CD of "Filles" before this box came out but kept off buying "Water Babies", knowing it would all be on these boxes, eventually.)

Miles Davis Quintet 1965-68, disc 4 beginning with "Circle in the Round" - embarking on an electric Miles trip, building up some excitement for the new box to arrive in 2010 or whenever it will be here... (only 14 discs to go if I omit the Cellar Door box and stick to the studio stuff)

yup, congratulations! :party:

more belated best wishes! :party:

will you stop repeating old news please? I thought it was yet a further delay first! let's hope there won't be any!

That's good to know! (I have never put any of my dime downloads on the ipod so far, though...)

of course everybody is free to pay for everything s/he wants, but the wonderful thing about the dime community is that people just offer their stuff for the fun of it! And selling such recordings or videos (and I assume you don't pay anything for copyrights and nothing to the musicians, or their estates, either) may be nice for some folks to get hold of something, but in the end, it's just as bad as what the bootleggers did and do (think Lonehill, RLR, Gambit etc.), and there are many people here who don't like that attitude for some or other (mostly good and ethical) reasons.

I guess he's the same guy who pissed off several members of the dimejazz yahoo group by talking of trades but then wanting big $$ for it...

Great, I even found out how to set it up so my own folder structure's maintained (I have "Artist\Album\XX Title" while default would be "Artist - Album\XX Title"). Winamp is a great programme, really - the only player I use on my computer, actually, and now I can also ignore iTunes for updating/working on my iPod - again, many thanks!

Ha, solved! The help is for a newer version (prob. 5.5 - see here), where they separated "'Copy to Local Media' config [...] from CD Ripping settings" (from that link). So that menu's not under Preferences > Media Library > Portables, but instead under Preferences > Media Library > CD ripping, as the same target folder is being used for both purposes. Doesn't matter where the setting is, but the fact that the help doesn't fit with the older build that's still offered as standard download on the winamp-page makes it hard to find out... and is slightly annoying - I rarely bother to read any help documents, and this is once more a reason why I don't - they're useless in so many cases! Thank you very, very much, Uncle Skid! Your help made me solve this issue which I was just sort of pushing ahead of myself of half a year now...

new installation didn't help any - same version (5.35) as I had and that menu is still not there... now I'm at a loss...

here's the relevant point from the help page: The problem is, I don't have that "copy to local media filenames" menu at all, only all the others mentioned in the help (sync, autofill, transcoding, advanced). I'll try and get a new version of winamp, maybe that helps...

ok, I see you said it's free, hence I assume you have the free version, too... but can you tell me where I can set up a folder to export files to, and how I can do it? I just played around with it for a half hour and was too stupid to find out, sorry!

Can I manage the ipod in the "media library"? Just in case: I only have a free version of Winamp...

I have Winamp - need to check that function out, wasn't aware of that! Never had the ipod linked with winamp... hope I can figure out how it works, thanks a lot!

no, I'm using windows, sorry, forgot to mention that...

I handle my ipod manually, by using itunes just to copy files onto the ipod. Now my ipod (30GB one) is full and I don't have all the files on it also on one of my HDs. Is there a way to get the files back from the ipod to an HD? Not that I couldn't extract my discs again, but the tagging is lots of work (I include full line ups, at least by musicians last names, and have, for instance, the complete Lester Young live recordings on the ipod - don't want to type up the info for 16 CDs again next time I feel like listening to any of that on the ipod...) Anyone has an idea?

Thanks - I'll eventually look for these, then.. just played disc 7 (Night Bird Song, live in 1992) and it's quite a bit underwhelming after the greatness that builds up from, say disc 3-6, mainly (discs 1 and 2 are fine, but things get better and better!)