Jim Henderson wrote:
> mplayer -ao pcm:file=temp.wav file.mp3

Excellent. I'm going to have to do this on some 4 million mp3 files next 
week. Good to know which program can do that. :-)

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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:28:05 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> mplayer -ao pcm:file=temp.wav file.mp3
> 
> Excellent. I'm going to have to do this on some 4 million mp3 files next
> week. Good to know which program can do that. :-)

Scripting is a wonderful thing, ain't it? ;-)

(and incidentally, I actually got the parameters right! :-) )

Jim

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Darren New escribió:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> mplayer -ao pcm:file=temp.wav file.mp3
> 
> Excellent. I'm going to have to do this on some 4 million mp3 files next 
> week. Good to know which program can do that. :-)
> 

I think LAME itself can do it.

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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:56:23 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Darren New escribió:
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> mplayer -ao pcm:file=temp.wav file.mp3
>> 
>> Excellent. I'm going to have to do this on some 4 million mp3 files
>> next week. Good to know which program can do that. :-)
>> 
>> 
> I think LAME itself can do it.

Yeah, probably - I thought about that and then thought "well, if you 
convert to WAV first, you know any MP3 tag info will be wiped out and the 
raw format will be rewritten, probably removing any embedded watermarks"

Jim

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Invisible wrote:
> OK, when I scan my eyes across my CD collection, this is what I see:
> 
> Enya
> Enigma
> ABBA
> ELO
> Pink Floyd
> The Beach Boys
> The Prodigy
> Catatonia [International Velvet]
> Madonna [Ray of Light]
> The Chemical Brothers
> Ace of Base
> 2 Unlimited
> Penulum [Hold Your Colour]
> Tangerine Dream
> Robert Miles
> Craftwerk
> Space [Spiders, Tin Planet]
> Alisha's Attick [Alisha Rules the World]
> Madness [Lovestruck]
> Dope Smugglaz [Double Double Dutch]
> Grove Armada [Best Of]
> They Might Be Giants
> Jem [Finally Woken]
> Natasha Beddingfield [Unwritten]
> Sonique [Hear My Cry]
> Smashmouth
> Gorillaz [Gorillaz]
> Holst [The Planets]
> Jerry Goldsmith [The Secret of NIMH soundtrack]
> John Williams [Star Wars I soundtrack]
> Howard Shore [LofR complete soundtrack]
> Jeff Wayne [War of the Worlds]
> The Trance Box
> Trance Euphoria
> Trance Anthems
> 
> I'm not entirely sure how that lot doesn't spontaneously self-destruct 
> just by being in such close proximity to each other, but anyway...

I don't think it's that strange a connection, it is  sort of diverse, 
but in a way that I have seen before.  The TMBG album is a good key that 
this is a "geek who likes listening to music" sort of collection, so 
I've seen several of my friends showing similar tasted.  Any ones you're 
particularly find of that I might take a listen to?

Also, why is Holst's The Planets always the only classical CD in these 
collections, I don't get it.

> So, what's in *your* CD collection?

Hey, that's more fun than work, thanks for the excuse to procrastinate!

I've organized them a bit by category, and left out all MP3s, which I 
probably account for 2/3 of my music volume.

--------------------[ rock-ish ]------------------------
Beatles [Magical Mystery Tour] (I need more Beatles music)
Blind Guardian [Nightfall in Middle Earth]
Dream Theater [Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes form a Memory]
Final Fantasy [Has a Good Home]
Godspeed You Black Emperor [Assorted CDs]
King Crimson [In the Court of the Crimson King, Larks' Tongues in Aspic]
Manu Chao [Clandestino]
Mars Volta [De-Loused in the Comatorium, Francis the Mute, Amputechture]
Mogwai [Mr. Beast]
Offspring [Smash]
Pink Floyd [Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here]
Radiohead [The Bends, Ok Computer, Kid A]
Raffi [Baby Belua]
Saint Rorschach [Transference]
Sigur Ros [Takk]
Steve Burns [Songs for Dustmites]
We vs. Death [We Too Are Concerned, We Are Too Concerned]
Yes [Close to the Edge]

----------------------[ classical ]-----------------------
Achron [Violin Concerto, The Golem Suite, Excerpts from Belshazzar]
Alkan [Etudes Op.39, assorted other piano works]
Bach (JS) [Passions, concertos, organ works, violin works, etc.]
Bartok [Violin Sonatas]
Beethoven [Symphonies, Missa Solemnis, Concertos, String Quartets, etc.]
Brahms [Symphonies, Concertos, German Requiem, etc.]
Busoni [Concerto, assorted piano works]
Chopin [Most of it, excepting concertos (which are MP3)]
Debussy [La Mer, Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune]
Dvorak [Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9, Te Deum, Cypresses, String Quartet No.14]
Franck [Organ Music]
Glass [String Quartets]
Glazounov [The Seasons]
Godowsky [Studies on Chopin's Etudes]
Gorecki [Symphony No.3]
Grieg [Peer Gynt, Piano Concerto, etc.]
Janacek [String Quartets, Violin Sonata, piano music, Glagolitic Mass]
Khachaturian [Piano Concerto]
Kapustin [Piano music]
Ligeti [Requiem, orchestral music, piano music]
Litolff [Concerto Symphonique Nos. 2 & 4]
Liszt [Piano music, Organ music, Faust Symphony]
Lutoslawski [Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4]
Medtner [Piano Sonatas, Forgotten Melodies]
Mendelssohn [Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4, The Hebrides Overture]
Messian [Quartet for the End of Time]
Mozart [Late Symphonies, assorted concertos, etc.]
Nielsen [Symphonies Nos. 1-3]
Orff [Carmina Burana]
Pendrecki [Threnody, Symphony, etc.]
Poulenc [Piano Concertos, Organ Concerto, assorted other]
Prokofiev [Piano Concerto No. 3]
Rachmaninov [Piano Concertos, Symphony No. 2, The Rock]
Reger [Assorted organ works]
Reich [Different Trains]
Rimsky-Korsakov [Scheherazade, Russian Easter Festival Overture]
Rodrigo [Guitar Concertos]
Rzewski [The People United Will Never Be Defeated]
Saint-Saens [Piano Concertos]
Schubert [Piano music, Symphony No. 9, String Quartets, assorted songs, 
etc.]
Schumann [Piano music]
Scriabin [Piano sonatas]
Shostakovich [String Quartets]
Sieblius [Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5]
Smetata [Ma Vlast]
Sorabji [Transcendental Studies Nos. 1-25]
Strauss (Richard) [Symphonic Poems, Metamorphosen, Four Last Songs, etc.]
Stravinsky [The Rite of Spring, Petrushka, Violin Concerto]
Tchaikovski [Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6, Swan Lake Suite, Nutcracker Suite]
Turnage [Fractured Lines]
Villa-Lobos [Piano music]
Ysaye [Violin Sonatas]

-------------[ Multi-composer classical CDs ]-------------
Glazunov & Goedicke Piano Concertos
Korngold & Marx Piano Concertos
Rubinstein & Scharwenka Piano Concertos
Misc other compilations

----------------------[ Operas ]---------------------------
Bizet [Carmen]
Glass [Einstein on the Beach] (sort of an opera)
Mussorgsky [Boris Godounov]
Poulenc [Dialogues of the Carmelites]
Purcell [Dido and Aeneas]
Wagner [Ring Cycle, Parsafal]


I've obviously heard more than is listed here, but suggestions for 
things I'm not familiar with that I should listen to are welcome.

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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:45:20 -0800, Kevin Wampler wrote:

> Also, why is Holst's The Planets always the only classical CD in these
> collections, I don't get it.

I had forgotten to mention that one; I've got two different recordings of 
that on CD, and one on cassette. :-)

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:

> You played violin?  That's cool. :-)
> 
> Did you just take lessons in school, or private lessons, or self-study?

All students at my school were required to learn violin and recorder. 
But then the music teacher retired, and the music lessens stopped. 
Eventually they found a replacement, but we only learned how to play 
electronic keyboard [or rather, how to call up the autobacking]. Oh, and 
guitar. Ever heard a Persian guy sing "Amazing Grace"? That song is 
boring at the best of times...

Interesting fact: When *you* play a violin, it sounds nothing like what 
you hear on the TV. It sounds like somebody dragging a strip of horse 
hair over a cheese wire. (Which, actually, is what it is.) I always 
assumed my violin was just naff. But then one day the teacher is, like, 
"no no Andrew, that F is flat. Give me that!" She takes my violin and 
plays what I had just been playing. Except it sounds amazing.

Um, OK. So it's *me* that's naff. :-|

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>> I do enjoy certain forms of orchestral music. However, from what I can
>> tell, most classical music isn't really to my taste.
> 
> Entirely possible, though I think it helps to know the story behind the 
> music - a lot of it tells a story.

Yeah, probably.

>> Every time I listen, I end up wanting to turn off the light, take a deep
>> breath, and light candles. Actually, last time I *did* light candles...
>> hmm. LOL!
> 
> Which album or albums do you have?

MCMXC AD, The Cross of Changes, Le Roi est mort, vive lr Roi, The Screen 
Behind the Mirror, LSD, Voyageur, A Posterioiri. I also have the DVD 
Remember the Future.

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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> You played violin?  That's cool. :-)
>>
>> Did you just take lessons in school, or private lessons, or self-study?
>
> All students at my school were required to learn violin and recorder. But 
> then the music teacher retired, and the music lessens stopped. Eventually 
> they found a replacement, but we only learned how to play electronic 
> keyboard [or rather, how to call up the autobacking]. Oh, and guitar. Ever 
> heard a Persian guy sing "Amazing Grace"? That song is boring at the best 
> of times...
>
> Interesting fact: When *you* play a violin, it sounds nothing like what 
> you hear on the TV. It sounds like somebody dragging a strip of horse hair 
> over a cheese wire. (Which, actually, is what it is.) I always assumed my 
> violin was just naff. But then one day the teacher is, like, "no no 
> Andrew, that F is flat. Give me that!" She takes my violin and plays what 
> I had just been playing. Except it sounds amazing.
>
> Um, OK. So it's *me* that's naff. :-|
>

If you can become very good with violin and play Paganini's Caprices 
(especially #16 and #5) and you switch over to electric guitar and master 
the Caprices on guitar, you could really rock. especially if you can learn 
to improvise as well.

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Kevin Wampler wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> I'm not entirely sure how that lot doesn't spontaneously self-destruct 
>> just by being in such close proximity to each other, but anyway...
> 
> I don't think it's that strange a connection, it is  sort of diverse, 
> but in a way that I have seen before.  The TMBG album is a good key that 
> this is a "geek who likes listening to music" sort of collection, so 
> I've seen several of my friends showing similar tasted.  Any ones you're 
> particularly find of that I might take a listen to?

My favourite TMBG album has got to be Factory Showroom or Spines. As for 
other guys... if you haven't heard Tangerine Dream, give it a whirl. If 
you enjoy crazy synthesizer music, that is...

> Also, why is Holst's The Planets always the only classical CD in these 
> collections, I don't get it.

I bought it for Mars, but it turns out there are several other seriously 
cool tracks on there. I seem to have picked a particularly good 
recording too, which is nice. Neptune is just... wow.

BTW, note that it's far from being the only orchestral recording. It's 
just the only one that's written a long time ago. There's a couple of 
other classical pieces I'd like to own - but good luck finding them! (Or 
even finding out their names...)

And ah... woah. You have a much bigger music collection than me. And 
[surprise!] I've never heard of most of it.

I have run into the name "Mogwai" several times though. I have no idea 
what that sounds like. Similarly, every time I go into a music shop I 
find myself wanting to by YES albums just to look at the pictures... no 
idea what the music sounds like.

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