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Last night I caught the Frank Wess Quintet, with our board member Michael Weiss on piano. It was a wonderful set. Frank Wess, tenor saxophone, flute; Greg Gisbert, trumpet; Michael Weiss, piano; Noriko Ueda, bass; Winard Harper, drums

The way I got this to work was to, after the track was copied to my computer, I loaded in a program call AUDACITY and added 2 seconds of silence to the end of the track.

I tried ripping MP3s recently with the internet off, and Windows Media Player still identified some tracks, even though there was no info from CDDB embedded in the files. I'm guessing there's now stuff out there that matches the raw digital data somehow. The way around it was to fill in all the track info in properties, and fool media player into thinking it's something else. This is exactly what is happening to me. I will try what you did.

Here are some answers to your 7 questions. I've done this. I've converted over 7600 CDs to external drives. I have been using Weston Digital dirves. Either the 1.5 tb or 2 tb. The last one I bought, a 2 tb drive cost $98. The price seems to have gone up a bit. You may also want to look at doing RAID with external drives. This will give you protection if one of the drive dies. The files exist else where which makes recovering possible. You would need a RAID controler in you MAC. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136471 I also coverted the files from WAV to FLAC. FLAC works on MACS. By converting to FLAC I cut the size of the file in half and without any compression that happens with MP3. You can always go back to WAV. You can even listen to FLAC files with programs such as WinAmp. As far as software for doing the conversion, if what you have works, why replace it? I can't see using a thrd party backup provider. Tomorrow they can go belly up and where's my data. When I bought a computer for my wife, it came with a years online storage up to 10 gb for free. That vendor doesn't exist anymore. The limitation of optical drives, I haven't notice with the one built into my Dell computer. It handled the workload just fine.

I am preparing my BFT for this coming March. One track regardless of what I do, when I play it on my Windows PC it pulls up the artists, title of the tune and the album. I even clicked on properties and made sure nothing is listed there. Is there a way to prevent this from showing? It will kind of defeat the purpose if the information is reveled.

A firend of mine who is from Cologne, Germany, emailed me today. He was at a concert yesterday with Lee Konitz in the audience. Lee has in the past gotten over a stroke and over pneumonia in his 80s, but time does catch up to us all. I hope he can pull another comeback out of his hat. "...by the way: yesterday we had a concert with the ndr big band in the wdr concerthall. in the audience was lee konitz (with this wife, a cologne woman). he was not in good shape. he had a plaster on his nose..."

RIP Walter. Thanks for all the music left to the world.

Peter Sellers Inspector Clouseau Jacques Cousteau

I was listening to him tonight and wonder why he never made it big like other horn players. He is talented beyond words. If you're looking for a nice recording with him, "Annie Ross & Pony Poindexter" is a great recording. Pony also played on some Lambert Hendricks & Ross recordings.

I know I am slatted for March 2012, but I can also be put down for number 99? I have enough music selected for my slot at #96 that I can have two ready.

Buffalo Bill Cody Sitting Bull Annie Oakley

Rip Taylor Cecil Taylor Tony Oxley

Hank Mobley John Coltrane Sonny Rollins

Buddy Tate Buddy Collette Lucky Thompson

Saturday night, first JIMMY HEATH'S 85th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: THE JIMMY HEATH BIG BAND then Kenny Barron Quartet.

Have a great birthday day Guy. Many more to come.

Sick Puppy Crazy Bastard Crazy Horse

Michael Jordan Julius “Dr. J” Erving Kareem Abdul Jabbar

Bon Scott Von Freeman Chico Freeman

Styx Supertramp Foreigner

Happy Birthday.

Max Roach Sonny Rollins Richie Powell

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