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  1. MP3 question

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    I use CDEX at VBR.

    I just tried that last night. Does that make it sound better Bill or use less space? I never got round to understading the reason for it?

    Any light shined here in would suffice . The other thing was which vbr to use as there are many!

    :blink:

  2. Something to remember CDR by...

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    Kind of reminds me of when I was offered a jazz collection to buy by an old wifey whose ex husband had cleared off and left a pile of old records in the shed.

    :excited:

    I went on the phone rang her up ...what were they ....thad jones ....lee morgan

    :excited::excited:

    They had mushrooms growing on sleeve and record :angry:

    They had been put in a cardboard box which had had food, and water spilled in it

    :angry::angry:

    They were all warped and had been played with a large crochet needle :(:(

    I gave her a hend to clean out her shed and take everything to the tip for her :rolleyes:

    I even helped her sweep the shed and took her to the shops to buy some plastioc boxes for the shed too!

    Good deeds expelled the desire to burn the shed /house down and I went home and cried ....they were very old and very collectable :(:unsure: but I made up a good deal a few weeks later and cleaned up on some old prestige organ dates B)

    The cd bronzing thing I have not found an issue with. I do suspect mercenary forces are behind this coming up again across the web in various spooky stories!

    Could it be the dark side Master Yoda?

    :alien:

    They have done it before under another scheme :ph34r:

    sneeky buggers the music industry .

    I will stick my old and rare tocj in a moldy room for tenm years and test them!

    :g

  4. MP3 question

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    I have been messing around with recording rates for mp3 for a few weeks now and found noticable difference with the higher recording rates ie between a cd ripped at 128k and one at 256K and even tried one at 320k :wub:

    However most of the cds I rip are for use on other cds (walkmans etc! B) ) SO I never notice the difference there.

    I also also heard the itunes AAC stuff and that sounds cool too mpeg 4 or something like that.

    Have others messed around with this ??

    mind you it is an effing pain in the arse when you cannot remember which tracks are which when you forget to label them.........grrr! :angry: and want to do a compilation.

    What programme do people use? I have been using cdex which is very useful too.

  5. Coltrane on BBC TV

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    I watched and enjoyed the BBC1 programme although tiredness meant I fell asleep right at the end and thought they were linking a love supreme to football....then I twigged I had been asleep.

    Do not watch too much tv and it tends to make me very sleepy

    Never mind , it was very good. Would also like to catch up with the BBC4 thing as we do not get that where I live ( freeview) in the uk

    Any one handy with a copy to borrow steal etc?

    Ps made up for the sleep with a marathon tranathon on a journey to Pembroke which was very worthwhile as I travelled alone with noone to winge about too much jazz ...for a change!

    :D

  6. Coltrane on BBC TV

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    I watched and enjoyed the BBC1 programme although tiredness meant I fell asleep right at the end and thought they were linking a love supreme to football....then I twigged I had been asleep.

    Do not watch too much tv and it tends to make me very sleepy

    Never mind , it was very good. Would also like to catch up with the BBC4 thing as we do not get that where I live ( freeview) in the uk

    Any one handy with a copy to borrow steal etc?

    Ps made up for the sleep with a marathon tranathon on a journey to Pembroke which was very worthwhile as I travelled alone with noone to winge about too much jazz ...for a change!

    :D

  7. Practical Jokes

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    I remember similar nasty japes at college

    We had a guy who loved to show off his stereo and would always swing his door open in a flamboyant manner.

    Even when we put a big plastic bin full of fag ash and water up against it propped just enough that the door stopped it falling over.....unless it was opened in a flambouyant manner!!!!! B)

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

    Swoosh

    etc

    He deserved it!

    I got over the guilt in a ono second ( an 'ono' second is the time period remember that it takes for you to confirm a file deletion and then realise it was not to be deleted!

    The second nasty but better was when we filled a condom to capacity ( its gets very big really)

    Filled it full of lots of water and rolled it out of a top story block flats stairway window. We yelled about two seconds before it hit the person below who looked up and open mouth and nearly drowned as all the water disapeared .

    The victim had been braggin about how he could not get condoms to fit him and so we shown him just how much you could fit in a condom......many gallons!

    Less of a water balloon more of a space hopper!

    Look ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut! Splish :g

  9. Practical Jokes

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Nasty no 1

    A friend , who reads this occcassionally ( so will remain nameless ;) ) told me this of a post office worker who lived with an obsessive cleaner....very obsessive cleaner who clean around him, wiped underneath his still warm coffee cup etc....

    One very sad day he had decided that he was to take action and flicked peanut butter ( the crunchy variety) all over the toilet and then proceeded to remonstrate with his parnter about the disugusting state of the toilet, how could sheleave it so etc etc...

    Her response was disbelief......I do not know what it is ....only cleaned it earlier this afternoon...um....do't know....

    He stroked his finger around the toilet seat and sniffed and then tasted before offering saying...I will tell you what it is.....she had long since screamed and run out of the house....

    They do not live together anymore needless to say

    Nastly number 2

    Naughty man in Bristol who was fed up of is paranoid wife who was ( no real offense here ^_^ ) big into the god stuff in an aggressive and tortuous manner especially towards him as he most definelty was not. SHe was very concerned about his behaviour and antics

    He being away from home for long period had the sign of the devil (666) tatooed on his head at the back not unlike the man in Damien ( that is where the idea came from!) whilst he was away and took her with him when he returned hoem just to have a trim ( in the days when flattops were the thing) His barber only got about half done when off came the hair that covered the offending item and out ran the rathered scared lookig woman who proceeded to scream all the way down the arcade :excited::excited::excited:

    Mean , yes

    Nasty , Yes

    Good fun, Yes!

  10. Meade Lux Lewis

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    I can thoroghly recommend this release as the other poster was right..........it will not get better as they got what are supposed to be the best sources. I had this set ( still have actually) and searched high and low for the mosaic set at a reasonable price. Thanks to a very kind fellow board member I can now listen to them which has been great :tup

    I love Honly Tonk Train Blues (even got it as a ringtone :lol::w ) and even the Harpsichord sides which when I first heard them years ago now, they captivated me completely for their unique sound.

    I find it hard to chose between the two of them for talent and enjoy both Ammons and Lewis equally. There is just more of Blue Note's Lewis work that it is all.

    There are quite a few copies of the first day around but if people are struggling......give me a buzz

  11. Euro 2004

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    For all non football fans. Copious amounts of strong cider :wacko: and cheap bombay mix will be available in my back garden and I thought we could get my stereo out and instead of listening to football we could treat my neighbourhood to a whole evening of John Coltrane's Live at the Village Vanguard at full volume.

    I thought just when the local side are about to score I could up the power amp and blow the street fuse :lol::lol::lol::lol:

    I was asked by a neighbour who looked very worried I must say , if I knew that England were on.............yes and were 1-0 up.............No................Its on now...........Yes ...........His face was like this :unsure: . .....then he heard some kerfuffle and left me to be ticketty boo and alone .

    It was strange how everyone bought their TVs outside.....

    Anyway, just bring some chairs and we should have a ball.......recreate the Vanguard in the Peak District UK, next time England are on....all welcome! :g

    Maybe a glass or two might be in order if it gets a bit busy!

    After rall it is a box set! :w

    or rather :party:

  14. FREE SHIPPING!

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    The former. I have many more Mosiacs than I have children, or impregnated girlfriends. About 22:0. B)

    Ah well there is the rub you see I happen to be in the reverse predicament with about 20 odd mosaics but many more children! :D

    I will have to place a very large order if we are to have an allocation relating to the numbers of offspring one has.

    Oh wait there,,,,,,,,,,,,whats that mother?

    Right better add one more the Sub total -_-

  15. Mosaic Story: Epilogue

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    Absolutely old chap.

    My tv goes for weeks on end ( save the odd dvd) without me turning it on!)

    Not the only thing either :lol::lol:

    Anyway I live with others ( my family !) and they get the rotten end which is complete frustration with any TV at the moment.

    I mean ..........latest reality tv with laugh a minute presenters or.....Joe Henderson's Page One whilst sat out in an English Summer garden with a large glass of scrumpy cider :wacko::blink:

    Where is the competition?

    Or a make over programme versus Lee Morgan's Search for a New Land and that kick theme throughout..... and maybe another glass or two of cider :eye::excited:

    Or

    continues ad nauseum til the end of the web page and bottom of the barrel! :huh:

  22. Ring them up

    in Re-issues

    Posted · Edited by andybleaden

    Yeh baby yeh!

    I got the sidewinder, some Albert Ammons boogie woogie, US3 cantaloop thing,song for my father B) Even go the austin powers and black adder themes

    If you have a way of getting them to your phone I can cough* arrange for them to appear in you inbox . They are all free of course :w

    Let me know anybody.....

    They are for sale on various sites for lots of money and yet all they are are midi files played by synths...........easy really :rolleyes: But the pains who run these companies want money for a 25 sec midi file

    The best one by far is Ronny JOrdans version of So What

    kewl :excited:

    Run a search for jazz midi file using your search engine ( not polyphonc ring tone!) and you will find the same (but free ) thing

    ANyway

    Get in tounch with me and I can forward some.............they are only about 20-40k

    in fact I think I can do one here.....

  25. suggestions for the next "Rare Groove" series

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    My votes would go for Set us Free and on Broadway by Reuben Wilson which I miss from LP days :(

    The other titles I would love to see that have already been issued would be Say it Loud by Lou Donaldson which I never got. I still think they could do with issuing Shades of Green. I really liked this and would love to have it again.

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